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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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  • Faint praise, but this one’s a lot better than the first part of the story. The “farting” aspect of the farting aliens is significantly downplayed in favour of things that are actually interesting.

    The emotional core of the story is the Doctor and Rose each coming to terms with how dangerous life with the Doctor is, and the effects it can have. I’d forgotten that Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North comments on how flippant Rose is about death, even at this early stage (too early?) of the series.

    There are plot contrivances all over the place - the UK’s nuclear codes are controlled by the UN! You can hack the Royal Navy’s submarines and launch missiles from your home PC! But I’m pretty forgiving of stuff like that, as long as the emotional core of the episode is solid.




































  • Some sort of surprising outcomes last weekend

    It’s funny, I was just about to say the narratives of the season seem to be taking shape, but you’re right - there are still some things up in the air.

    Riders vs Bombers in the West Finals?

    I wouldn’t be mad about that at all. But I do hope BC can get things more together - I like Buck Pierce.

    My Argos won without Chad Kelly yesterday

    I’d also like to see the defending champs gather some more steam.


  • That quote is…really something. RTD has a habit of overexplaining things to the point of incomprehensibility, but that takes it to a new level.

    I do think the basics of what he’s getting at ring true - they certainly struggled a bit with “how much sexism should the Thirteenth Doctor encounter,” and “how much racism should the Fifteenth Doctor encounter?” They both probably should have encountered more than they did, but if the story isn’t about that, you run the risk of derailing the entire story. But if you include it “casually,” as just a fact of the world, as they did in this case…that’s not necessarily better. But maybe it’s still worthwhile?

    I don’t think there’s a right answer, but RTD sure managed to find a wrong one.

    On this topic, I was certainly laughing right along with the show’s depiction of Mickey-as-a-murder-suspect, but that has unsettling racial implications on its own, if you really interrogate the idea.