Doctor Who now broadcasts on Sunday nights. That makes it impossible to sit down with the wife and watch it, so it sits on the DVR for a week until the subsequent Friday or Saturday night when we can put the kids to bed and stay up and watch a show together. That means I’m always a week behind on Doctor Who.
We finally got around to watching episode number three, Rosa. More accurately, we watched the first half of the episode before I got so pissed I shut it off, then read the plot summary on line.
First of all, The Doctor no longer has a companion, she has an entourage. The Doctor has traveled with multiple companions before, but in those cases there was clearly The Companion and then The Companion’s significant other/sidekick, e.g., Rose and Mickey or Amy and Rory.
This is a full on entourage, and one clearly engineered by the BBC diversity and inclusion committee. The Doctor is a white woman, then we have a young disabled unemployed black man, a young Pakistani Muslim woman cop, and an old retired white male bus driver.
The young black man has some sort of coordination disorder so he can’t ride a bike and every time he uses a ladder it’s a triumph. He has a massive chip on his shoulder about it too. The cop has talked about in at least two of the tree episodes we’ve watched, how discriminated against she is for being a Muslim woman of color. I guess in the world of Doctor Who, the diversity initiatives mandated by the goverment don’t exist where the BBC, MPS, and other goverment agencies go out of their way to hire and recruit anybody who isn’t white and British.
So episode three take The Doctor and her entourage to Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. There is some time travel fuckery afoot and the TARDIS needs them to fix it.
Instantly every white person in Alabama is racist and not five minutes in the young black man is threatened with a lynching. We meet Rosa Parks, who brings up Emmett Till in her first few lines of dialogue.
The restaurant they go to doesn’t serve blacks. Not even segregated, it just doesn’t serve them. Then Yaz, the Pakistani Muslim woman cop is called a Mexican and is treated as badly as the black guy.
Historically this makes no sense. Jim Crow didn’t apply to Mexicans, and Mexican farm workers were known in the South. That’s why Hot Tamales are established southern food. Moreover, even if Alabamans didn’t know what Pakistan was, it having just gained its independence in 1947, they would have heard of India. Worst case, she would have said “Indian” and they would have assumed she was Native American.
History wasn’t the point of this. America is having a controversy over Illegal Immigration, the dogma of the Left is that any resistance to immigration of any kind is 100% racism and bigotry, and therefore lets throw anti Mexican bigotry into this story to make it relevant to today.
The party goes to a White’s Only motel where a racist cop is racist to The Doctor and the bus driver, while searching the room for the black man and “the Mexican girl.” Then tells them all to get out because they are foreigners and not welcome.
As it turns out, there is a time traveler who is manipulating history to stop Rosa Parks from refusing to give up her seat to a white person and therefore stop the civil rights movement. He can’t just kill Rosa Parks because … plot… and his motivation is he’s a racist white guy from the future. That’s it.
Again, this makes no historical sense. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was definitely an important historical event, but the civil rights movement was broad and that was just one of many events for it to coalesce around. Had it not been that, something else would have happened. The civil rights movement wouldn’t have fizzled out and Jim Crow still be the law of the land in 2018 has Rosa Parks not given up her seat.
Something something something, The Doctor and her entourage make sure history happens the way it is supposed to.
The end.
I made it as far as “the bad guy’s motivation is that he’s a racist that’s it” and gave up.
Sitting in my living room in Alabama in 2018, I really didn’t need to be beat over the fucking head with this.
Remember that all the way back when David Tennant was the Doctor and Martha was his companion, they went all over history and her being black didn’t matter. Martha met Shakespeare and all he did was hit on her.
Jaunts through history were fun. Now they are woke and full of bigotry.
Why did the BBC do it? Because introspection is too hard.
London is suffering from a epidemic of stabbings, acid throwing, and crime imported directly from the Third World shit-holes of the Muslim World. Truck attack terrorism has caused the Brits to line every sidewalk with concrete barricades so that every major city looks like the LA freeway. British culture is breaking down in London.
Jews all across Europe are being murdered and Synagogues are being fire bombed, mostly by Muslim immigrants.
The EU Court of Human Rights decided to uphold Sharia Law, and said that criticism of Muhammad is not protected free speech.
The EU is ignoring the pleas of white farmers in South Africa for a right of return to escape the epidemic of farm murders, while Sweden is refusing asylum to and deporting a white South African family that escaped to Sweden.
But the BBC can’t do anything about that. So instead they have to remind the world that the American South was a hateful, bigoted place and we have to experience that first hand through The Doctor.
It’s woke bullshit and I don’t need to see it.
If The Doctor really wanted to save some lives, why not go back 1,600 years and convince Muhammad not to be a violent Jew murdering, child raping, fucking asshole. That won’t fit with the show’s new woke status though.
The BBC has decided to destroy this franchise with PC horse shit. At least the older episodes are still available on Amazon Prime (for now).
Next episode “Arachnids in the UK” features a gun-loving Trump-like character.
Well, the actual Doctor had groups of companions before. Nyssa, Adric, and one or two others at one time. But being from literally all over time and space trumped “race”, and they were just trying to be entertaining, then.
Oh, and why do I suspect “Quantum Leap” did better dealing with the civil-rights era south?
You have hit on precisely what I told a friend of mine whose first doctor was Jon Pertwee. He and I agree that Jodie Whittaker has the makings of a superb doctor. The diversity effort with what you rightly name an entourage has turned the show into something only a SJW can love.
I predict that either River or Missy will return to demonstrate the show’s LGBTQ bona fides.
This is why I, who have loved Superman for my entire life and to whom George Reeves remains a hero, will not watch Supergirl.
In the words of words of the great Sam Goldwyn, legendary Hollywood filmmaker, “messages we leave to Western Union.”
I watched the new Jumanji last night. I was absolutely shocked! It was actually an enjoyable escape for 2 hours with some decent humor and virtually no PC crap.
After I watched it, I realized that always I just expect to be disappointed with new movies and TV shows that I watch. Not because the plot is bad or that the acting is subpar but because of the incessant virtue signaling that actually takes me out of the story line long enough to roll my eyes and want to turn it off for change the channel.
As for Dr. Who, I used to watch it quite a bit up until the Doctor gave the lame excuse about not being able to go retrieve Amy and Rory. It was super lazy writing that seemed to continue after that (imho).
This is a full on entourage, and one clearly engineered by the BBC diversity and inclusion committee. The Doctor is a white woman, then we have a young disabled unemployed black man, a young Pakistani Muslim woman cop, and an old retired white male bus driver.
There’s an expression that I got from Dave Barry (I think) to describe this: “mandatorily interracial” You see it in virtually every commercial. At night, we’re bombarded with commercials for pharmaceuticals. IIRC, only one has a white male doctor. They’re always mandatorily women or another race. It’s like when’s the last time you saw a man as lead character in a TV series that isn’t an idiot?
Better off reading the complete works of Robert Heinlein.
Really.
Big fan of Dr. Who series but will not be watching this season i’ve started calling Dr. Woke (PC Who?).
The death knell for this show was when they forced that annoying companion down the viewer’s throats, that kept rubbing in your face that she was a black leabian with a chip on her shoulder. Ugh.
No problem with who she was but I don’t go around, getting on people’s faces, yelling to them that I’m a hispanic heterosexual who likes women with perky boobs and a nice ass, and have a weakness for good looking petite asian women. 😉
Anywho, Dr. Woke and the BBC can go take a long walk off a long pier. They suck.