DOCTOR WHO 14x5 REACTION | Dot and Bubble | Season 1 Episode 5 | Series 14 Episode 5

[@CsikiAttila]

She needs the arrows because the whole bubble is rotating, so if it's switched off, she starts to veer right side immediately, to the table, to the slug, whatever is there. The arrows, I suppose, help compensate for the constant rotation of profile pictures. It wears off after a minute or so.

[@marcusmcculloch3410]

I didn't even clock the rotation of the bubble making her veer. I was simply just focusing on the arrow thing and them not having to think about walking, their just told. Good eye

[@dayanna901]

Oh. That makes so much sense! I really didn't think of that.

[@theautlaw]

Yeah, and it wouldn't necessarily take her very long to acclimate. It's just that initially she can't walk. People keep saying it's not realistic but I think that it is. And besides, this is a freaking sci-fi fantasy show and these are not humans

[@Omn1Media]

That's the best explanation I've read so far...didn't think about the constant rotation.

[@bobfather7355]

The arrows could also be commenting on how people can not drive without GPS.

[@ReadingOne]

I love that this is the first time the Doctor has had a face like this, so this is the first time he’s had to deal with racism against himself, and Ruby clocks it quicker than him because she’s surely had to see how it affects her mother and grandmother throughout her life.

[@celestinenox]

In the behind the scenes for this episode, Russell T. Davies says that first watching this ep, you think the moral of the story is about social media, "Look around you." But after that last scene you know the real moral is that Lindy should have stayed in her bubble and been eaten because *she's* the monster.

[@malcolmrowe9003]

She's part of a monstrous society. It's the bubble/echo chamber that's made her like this. Is kind of reminiscent of a 7th Doctor story that I don't remember very well, so could be misunderstanding somewhat, wherein everybody has to be happy all the time... or else. I don't remember if that one had any racist undertones.

[@ginjamutha]

There is a video on YT of Lindy bumping into the lamppost on a loop for an hour. After this episode it’s very cathartic 😊

[@fayesouthall6604]

Hehe

[@Omn1Media]

There might be some justice in the world! lol

[@Whale-Shark-Katie]

Please send me that I need it omg…

[@marcelosousa6656]

Team Slugs for the win. Slugs are the heroes

[@jamesmontgomery7074]

One of my favorite things about this episode that no one is talking about is Ricky September's song choice. "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" a song about a girl staying in her comfort zone until she dies.

[@playlistb3795]

Just a few minutes in. Glad you got the difference between 'social media bad' and 'echo chamber bad' a lot of people were only looking at Social Media and not that they are talking about the bigger issue. 30:50 I am guessing that sigh is about the real racist undertones of that look at the end, and that would be right. All white, very Aryan world and lots of microaggeessions.

[@Omn1Media]

You are quite correct about the sigh!

[@theadamabrams]

26:05 It seems like you didn't pick up on the true twist at the end. (RTD is not usually so subtle, but in this case the ending was _too subtle!)_ It's not only about the Doctor being outside of their community. It's specifically about him being Black. There are a hints of this throughout the episode, but by design they are easy to miss/dismiss on first watch. 1. Lindy blocks the Doctor immediately but talks to Ruby. Granted, Ruby claimed to be doing a survey and complimented Lindy's top, while the Doctor just jumped into conversation with her, so that could also be an explanation. 2. When he reappears, Lindy at first doesn't even realize it's the same guy from before and thinks he "just looked the same". At the time I attributed this to the fact that she thought unblocking was impossible-thus it must be a different person from before-but in retrospect it's definitely about thinking all black people look the same. 3. Lindy asks whether the slugs are to do with the Doctor (her facial expression for that line is also telling) but doesn't ask that about Ruby. 4. Lindy is shocked that Ruby and the Doctor were in the same room. This could also be potentially explained away-she also says she's never hugged _anyone_ before, so it clearly many people in their society spend their lives physically isolated-but she was frequently in the same room as her coworkers so it does make sense that there's a different reason for her surprise. 5. When she brings Ruby and the Doctor into the group chat with her friends, she says "He's not as stupid as he looks". Ruby's not included in that characterization. 6. Lindy tells her friends the Doctor will be "disciplined" when this is all over, which is an odd choice of word for someone hacking a communication system and a much less surprising word in a racial context. 7. Hoochy Pie says the box being bigger on the inside is "voodoo" and that they have to "maintain the standards of Finetime". 8. Brewster Cavendish says they should turn away from the Doctor before they get "contaminated". Personally, I started thinking their attitude might be race-based from Hoochy Pie's lines but wasn't actually sure until this line. --- From the other reactors I've watched and YT comments I've read, the majority of people did pick up on the racism angle at the very end. Of course, not everyone did. Despite wishing the ending had communicated its intent a bit more clearly, I still liked this episode *a lot.*

[@stacyp2186]

Also, everyone is white in that society. I heard one reactor think it was because they thought he was poor. lol.

[@Kostyurik]

I love the ending wasn't made super clearer with racist theme, because now the whole premise could still theoretically work with any other Doctor, not just Fifteenth ("Dot and Bubble" was initially Eleventh Doctor story in 2010 based on class privileges not race differences)

[@dayanna901]

I think it being subtle works well as a way of calling out white privilege even for the anti-racist white people (like myself and Omni, for instance) . Usually, only the super obnoxious racist piece of crap are called out.

[@ciaranirvine]

Yeah I noticed some of them on first watch but thought maybe she was just a rich entitled brat. And then at the end when the smug long-haired guy goes full "manifest destiny colonizer" it was ooooh yeah so it is that kind of society, which then gets confirmed by the voodoo and screen-to-screen contact lines. On a re-watch it is so much more obvious throughout. Not often we accuse RTD of being too subtle lol. As an old IT guy I also got a laugh from the AI interpreting "eat the rich" literally, and killing them alphabetically, which is just what I'd expect a newly-sentient AI to do

[@Cine_Curious]

I love to see people educating others and explaining the racism in discussions now. In this sense - I guess it's perfect. Thank you for this list. Although I got it right away, I did not pick up on all of these.

[@JR-bm8dl]

Ricky September really acted like the doctor in this episode, in the way he took care of her. For instance, telling her to focus on him when she was panicking and promising to get her out of there. Even though there is little human contact, he took her hand as the doctor has done many times with his companions. By killing him, she may have doomed all those survivors. He definitely would have helped them start a new society.

[@NoxarBoi]

12:05 This line is much more obvious after the end of the episode. Also, everyone there being white and Lindy specifically having blonde hair and blue eyes 😬.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Hitler youth

[@Omn1Media]

Yeah that hits so much harder after you get to the end!

[@thornbush8]

10 mins it, when the Doc appears with Ruby, and she says 'is this thing something to do with you'..I thought at first she was talking to him about the slugs. but now, I think she's talking to Ruby about the Doc. subtle. and savage.

[@csk7769]

Ricky being so Doctor-coded but white is definitely intentional. Lindy happily accepted his help when she was downright offensive to Doc in almost every scene from the beginning of the episode. (It's been very telling to see across the internet who thought the final scene's more direct racism was a twist and who could tell on first watch that it wasn't, with the constant steady flow of setup and foreshadowing) I get why people would ahead of time assume the episode would be some kind of vapid Gen Z on their phones critique from a 60 year old writer, that makes sense, but i hope after watching it's clear to everyone that's not at all what the episode was about. Bubble in the sense of being literally blinded by privilege, (Russell T Davies said so himself in the BTS, that he was curious how many minutes it would take viewers to realize that Finetime only had white inhabitants. 10 minutes? 15 minutes? all the way to the end? and if it took people a while, he hoped everyone would ask themselves why?) and in the sense of white supremacist echo chambers created by tech companies with equally racist algorithms, not as in the sense of branding a generation

[@suncore598]

I love episodes like this, Midnight, and Voyage of the Damned that are complicated about those saved by the Doctor. Not all of the lucky ones are good people or the ones we prefer to be saved. But, like the old man said in Voyage of the Damned, if the Doctor chooses who lives and who dies, that would make him a monster.

[@Jim_The_Fish]

Good ole Mr Copper

[@lionofdemise]

Ricky deserve better

[@fayesouthall6604]

Justice for Ricky September

[@supermariozelda]

He was probably racist as well. RTD killed him so we could have one character we like from this episode.

[@Sparx632]

@@supermariozeldahe’s a representation of breaking out of your bubble so I would hope he wouldn’t be like the others, he doesn’t react to the Doctor in the same way. He would still have his biases of course since he is still within the Finetime bubble.

[@yuukinoyuki9064]

​@@supermariozelda The implication was that he wasn't, since he didn't blind himself to reality and instead spent years bettering himself and learning from the past. He was one of the only members of their society who really seemed to show empathy. Going out of his way to save a stranger, feeling for her when she mentions never having been hugged, keeping the knowledge of the fate of their homeworld from her, calming her down, promising to protect her, fighting the dot for her, etc. We also see when the Doctor gives him the codes that he doesn't have any sort of reaction - not even surprise - to seeing the Doctor. And never pauses to question taking orders from him. The Doctor even tries to explain a topic that Ricky knows well and he just gently comments that he knows how that works, already. And when Ruby and the Doctor give him compliments he just smiles. Having a well-developed sense of empathy, a good knowledge of history, and showing no negativity when reacting to the Doctor imply that the last thing Ricky was, was racist. He was killed off precisely because it would have undercut the true horror of the situation, to have him there arguing to listen to the Doctor.

[@Deliverance253]

With the walking thing, i see it as while in the bubble she is subconsciously walking via the guide and while outside the bubble she has to conciously walk, which she hasnt done in years or even most of her life, so its almost akin to having to remember how to walk after coming out of a come but on a smaller scale.

[@Connor-ONeill]

If it's any consolation, their deaths are pretty much guaranteed. The only reason they lived _that_ long is because The Doctor held their hands throughout the entire fiasco.

[@theautlaw]

I mean it amazes me that I didn't see the racism angle when I first watched it and my son had to point it out to me. But that's Gen z for You because they're so good at that and I mean that in a positive way. And so I had to go back and watch it. People are saying it's not good because you miss that but I think that's kind of. Also the point that white people are going to miss it because we're not used to dealing with that type of bigotry and power balance.

[@yuukinoyuki9064]

I'm a Millenial, not Gen Z, and I was actually surprised to learn plenty of people considered the ending subtle. I didn't catch on right away - I thought she was an entitled rich brat, not a racist entitled rich brat - but by the end I was texting my friends screaming, lol. That being said, I do think people who criticize others for not seeing the racism are rather missing the point of the episode. The point is that if you stay in your bubble, you will miss such things even as they're right in front of you. But, conversely, you have the power to lower your bubble and learn. Clearly that's what happened with you, and that's a wonderful thing. You'll now always have that knowledge and be more able to recognize such aggressions if they happen around you.

[@theautlaw]

Or I have ADHD and I tend to miss things. To assume that I live in a bubble because I want to doesn't take into account the fact that I'm disabled and don't get out much and I'm autistic and people don't like me because of that

[@theautlaw]

But I do get your point. And yes now I know.

[@mixofreak]

It isn't just social media. It's classism and especially racism. Microaggressions across almost every interaction with The Doctor, beyond those with Ruby Sunday.

[@grifftastic2745]

Bigger villain than the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Master.

[@lesley9865]

Yes, we don’t share this planet with daleks, cyber men or the master. White suprematists are on the other hand are here amongst us.

[@ShinobiPhoenix-YT0]

This episode hit me very hard when it aired and after LAST WEEK, it hits even closer to home so many many reasons. Sometimes, you can’t save people who refused to be saved for reasons that are just beyond your control and breaks your faith almost completely. You can't let me break you because someone still needs you anyway, but it doesn't mean it won't take time to heal.

[@uniquesimulacrum]

I don't know if this is the idea behind the 'can't walk without the bubble' but I want to imagine it like this: Imagine you place a plank on the floor and try to balance on it. Pretty easy. Lift the same plank 2miles into the sky -> not so easy any more because the brain has dificulties adjusting to the heights. I wanna believe that the fact that she stared at the bubble at close range for her entire life made her brain forget how to adjust to a 'normal field of view', and so its confused and she loses her balance.

[@heyallisonshea]

the walking thing is a bit confusing but the way i understood it is their eyes focus so much on the close up arrows (and the bubble in general) that their perception is not right which makes them not be able to take steps properly. the bubble is very close to their face and you can even see she has very small pupils because of it.

[@fayesouthall6604]

My mum had a stroke that messed up her perception. Walk fine, if there’s a vacuum cleaner cable on the floor, she would stop and fall backwards. Took years to get a good diagnosis.

[@w33dn0se3]

Alongside that, the bubble is constantly rotating, so that might also have a hand in fucking up her coordination

[@KamonShirow]

Sleep is your friend. Enjoy it as often as possible.

[@evaserration6223]

Sleep No More

[@marcusmcculloch3410]

Wait...hold on...is the system making the residents create the slugs? Oh my, wouldn't that be ironic

[@yuukinoyuki9064]

I think so, I think it's using similar tech to the BoogeyMan from ep 1.

[@tenjenk]

The system produced the slugs itself to wipe out the residents. It had grown to hate the residents and their shallowness, it didnt want to manage them any longer.

[@asteria5089]

I love the sort of slow realization the Doctor has about *why* the Finetime residents refuse his help. He’s never experienced racism like this, from this side. For *most* of the show’s history, he’s had the privilege of being a white man-the sort of default “authority figure” people would follow and listen to with relative ease. But here, Lindy immediately blocks him (while she was willing to hear Ruby out) and she only grudgingly accepts his help. Only for him to be told that it was barely even tolerable for them to speak to him and for them to essentially choose their own doom rather than deign to be in his company any longer.

[@Omn1Media]

Same it mirrors the audience realization as well I think because I found it pretty subtle as through most of it I was focused on the dot and bubble aspect of it but as you get deeper and deeper into it and then you get to the end and see how they treated him and the things they said it just hits you...on rewatch it's SO apparent though.

[@mojoshivers]

Sometimes Davies has a tendency to hit you over the head with his messaging, but he was kind of clever here to disguise the racism in the beginning of the episode. But you can start to see it in how Lindsay immediately blocks the Doctor without listening to him at all but doesn’t immediately block Ruby. And then you start to notice everyone in Fine Time is white and a lot have Aryan features. But by the end, just the way they speak to The Doctor the racism is just overt. I like the messaging in the end there are just some people whose worldview is just so ingrained that there’s no point debating them or trying to save them. They’re stuck in their own bubble both metaphorically and, in this case, literally.

[@KenFromchicago]

She's like someone new to the internet and they haven't learned to filter out popup ads, banner ads, wallpaper ads. Without the bubble, everything IRL is new and a distraction to walking forward. As she gets distracted by something she unconsciously starts to turn toward it. However the bubble is familiar and she has learned that things to either side are less important and so she's not distracted and thus wble to continue walking forward or to make turns.

[@wyren925]

this might be my fav ep of the season so far

[@kacektv9405]

Honestly I already knew how doomed they were when Mr. Abercrombie and FItch is all "Well im leader" like no one picked him no consensus from the group just saying he's in charge? Dudes gonna literally throw ppl into the slugs and get a horror movie karmic ending in like 8 hrs tops!

[@Omn1Media]

Right?! lol

[@justinblincoln]

The new Who is feeling more and more black mirror/horror and tbh I'm here for it

[@Creek932]

This episode felt very Black Mirror-esque and I loved it. The final scene was especially harrowing and Ncuti Gatwa's performance was phenomenal. But it's a bit weird to have 2 Doctor-lite episodes back to back in a season that's only 8 episodes total. I feel like we just need to spend more time with this Doctor to really get a full feel for him. I've definitely enjoyed each episode though.

[@MysteriousMrL]

First reactor I've seen make the Phantasm sentinel sphere comparison with the attacking dot. Good stuff.

[@jensrettberg7968]

I think that with the not walking without the arrows is less that she should know the bodily mechanism but that there is a mental blockage. We would think learning something with guidance eventually enables one to do it without but she so overrelied on following instructions that she simply can't imagine being able to do it without. More than not being able to she thinks she can't do it right when no one tells her where the right track is.

[@HellfireComms]

I hope they cast the dude who played Ricky September as the next Doctor! He was great. Nctui was great too, especially for his first recording post The Giggle.

[@samwell54]

he would’ve been a great companion honestly

[@kadegetslaid634]

I so wish he became a companion 😭 honestly we at least need the actor back hes great

[@Venemofthe888]

i think he would have been a good 3rd member of the tardis

[@MST3K56]

Oh my God! A planet populated by "valley girls". Where's a Death Star when you need one. Anyone catch Ricky September playing a Jedi padewan fighting off the training module with his light...ahem...lead pipe? R.I.P. Ricky September, you deserved better.

[@nathanthomas5133]

Im sure the walking/arrows is partly about how you come to rely on the technology & lose confidence in your own ability - its like people who drive into rivers because their satnav told them to & they didn’t have the awareness to think for themselves & realise it was sending them in the wrong direction.

[@bobdodd3270]

It's about balance, it's about the ability to focus on the horizon. If you only ever look 18 inches in front of you, your eye muscles won't instantly focus on infinity very easily. It would take a little time.

[@pandaphil]

Really enjoyed your analysis.

[@SundayMorning91]

I was actually waiting for them to immediately go over a waterfall. Lol.

[@chrisleneil]

Loved it. Great reaction, as always! 💜💜➕🌈🟦

[@Undercovertheory]

Excellent review section

[@uniquesimulacrum]

It was a pretty heavy gut punch, when I realized that no person of color was in this whole episode (besides the doctor). The white supremacy is obvious once you notice it, but it took me way too long. If anyone ever asks again what white privilege means, just show them this episode, without context. The micro aggressions are there the entire time. She talks to Ruby not to the doctor. When she finally talks to the doctor she thinks 'they all look the same', 'Did you bring them here'... I still feel mad but I am grateful for it. You need to know your mistakes in order to tackle them.

[@Darkly_i_Shine]

My main problem with this episode was; I was rooting for the slugs. Except for the singer dude all the people can just go away, it's fine. Capaldis doctor would not have bothered with this society,lol

[@AmazingChi]

I caught it on the 'contaminated' line, but god, reflecting on it as a whole the racist undertones are there. She actually tolerates Ruby's intrusion but dismisses the Doctor immediately, and then instantly and totally believes and follows Ricky despite to us, it feels suspect. "You, sir, are not one of us." Not "You two." "You, sir." Oof.

[@stacyp2186]

You’re my Ricky September 😇

[@JulieFreyHomeWebBiz]

If we did get a new companion, it would be with a similar category as Turlough were we (the audience) know dark secrets or missions but the Doctor and companions do not know. ("dramatic irony")

[@demicafatali]

The random comments that look so bad when you look back on it "I was SO right to hate you" or "I promise he will be punished later and I'm SO looking forward to it" (shudders)

[@FractalParadox]

OK, hear me out: even if you lived in finetime world, you would still be able to use your legs without the bubble... BUT, the concept isn't wrong at all, just wasn't conveyed well. If you dig into the neuroscience behind it, it's absolutely possible she would have serious difficulties, but not outright fall over or clearly turn when trying to walk straight. the way your brain learns things and performs certain actions isn't exactly super general, sometimes certain skills are tied to very specific things. one great example of this is a video by Smarter every day called "The backwards brain bike" where he goes over practical examples of this. in fact, those things get less and less flexible as we age, and someone who spent their entire live on that VR bubble just wouldn't have the same spacial awareness of someone who actually sees things more than 2ft away from their face. just the fact that she had to think on how to look beyond the bubble already tells you she just never thought of it before. As I said, the portrayal was a bit too stupid, I don't think messing with her sense of direction was the right call, whist having her run into things like the pole and forgetting to dodge furniture and hitting her knee on the table seems like it would be a better way of showing it. she is used to have something avoiding obstacles for her, so she just wouldn't think of avoiding potholes and light poles and stuff. also maybe having her do a sort of drunk, swaying walk would likely be more realistic than outright being unable to walk on a straight line. And the part where she learned pretty fast once she had Ricky, it would absolutely happen exactly like this. in a couple minutes, her brain would get used to it, and the struggling would mostly fade.

[@lisajohnson1528]

Like the fast change into the superman tshirt you got some serious superhuman abilities my friend x thanks for posting it doesnt matter when these get posted just thank you for getting round to all that you do x love from the uk

[@TheUnknown313]

Hey man, don't ever apologise for needing sleep/rest! Your health comes first before anything and we appreciate you man. Hoping you're doing okay! Right, reaction time. Yeah, the level of Classism, Entitlement and Racism from them is crazy. Mirror's our world very well. Especially the micro aggressions.

[@dem_bears]

This is how it is happening right now in the real world. Life will imitate Art

[@jayluke8469]

Didn’t really mention the fact that they are all racist, there are no black people in the entire episode, it’s mentioned that there were slaves

[@jonunya1163]

I figure she has poor depth perception when she drops the bubble (kind of like the depth perception adjustment with a glasses prescription change)

[@ameliacraiig4193]

You don't get the not being able to walk? Think about how disorientated people can feel straight after taking off a virtual reality headset. Now apply that to someone who's relied on a "bubble" for seemingly most of their lives.

[@suinegagpf]

I highly recommend rewatching the episode, but in the context that Finetime is built on racial purity. I didn't pick up on it the first time through either. Thought they were just elitist and xenophobic. Her microagressions toward the Doc give away that Lindy is racist af. Calling the Doc stupid. Implying that people like him all look alike. The not being able to walk without verbal assistance while your field of view is obscured seems exaggerated, but I wouldn't totally discount it. I remember a study where someone was challenged to ride a bicycle in a straight line while wearing glasses that inverted what he saw. Obviously, it took him some time to acclimate to seeing his surroundings upside down. But it also took him some time to reacclimate to normal vision once he removed the glasses. It's all about what your brain has been conditioned to expect. Really hope we don't see the Finetimers again. Saw someone speculate based on the terminology used throughout the episode that slave labor may have been employed to build Finetime and the conduits were used by them to escape. If that is the case, I'm hoping any surviving communities are sufficiently advanced to be able to repel the Finetime survivors when they inevitably arrive and attempt to colonize them. This hypothesis also raises the possibility that the dot didn't become sentient but was instead programmed. This also provides a potential explanation to two issues I had with the episode. 1) Why were the slugs needed if the dots were plenty lethal? And 2) Why alphabetical order when there are more efficient methods? Especially if all the dots could kill simultaneously. It's almost as if the method of eradication was gamified. Like by someone who not only wanted the population eradicated, but also wanted to watch the residents struggle to piece together what was happening to them.

[@Omn1Media]

I noticed it by the end which was what I was referring to here 30:18 but how blatant it was is so much more clear on rewatch!

[@thornbush8]

an AI wouldn't think like us, hence the A-Z maybe. and..it's stated it hates them, enough to want them to suffer before the end. the victims are slowly devoured, and the rest get more and more terrified. straight up ending them is too quick was my take.

[@bestboyholland3217]

Your reaction to Ricky dying was the same as me

[@thenerdynetwork1]

This whole episode reminds me of Logan's Run mixed with 2000: A Space Odyssey.

[@MrRosebeing]

Just noticed that they all have blue eyes. Other people have picked up on it on other channels, but they're essentially incredibly stupid juvenile aryans in space. Just noticed that Lindy also says to the Doctor "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" which is a bit of a giveaway of the ending. Great episode, Ncuti Gatwa stole the show at the end, but Callie Cooke was brilliant, too.

[@GingerGeek7567]

Lindy pepper bean is my least favourite doctor who villain she is the worst!!! I wanted to give the doctor the biggest hug at the end (I wanna give him a hug anyways) Omn1 take your time with vids sleep is more important buddy 💙

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks, Omni! ⏳ Do your best to prioritize your sleep. 🔸 I found this one to be brilliant, although sad. I hope it serves as a cautionary tale for tech-dependent, wannabe elitist youths. ⛔ As for not being able to walk without guidance... I imagine they never developed that part of their brains, the navigating part, since it was always done for them.

[@ajandrianjafymusic]

Ricky was a good egg

[@andycofin6983]

Subcultures come in all shapes and sizes. Religious groups, work groups, gaming communities, family groups. Get too focused on just one small group of people who think, act, and speak as you do and pretty much soon the rest of world are not only strangers and foreigners, but enemies to your lifestyle. And those people will pretty much do anything to protect the status quo.

[@sineaterdred1]

My take on her inability to walk straight is like the first time you (or anyone) tried to walk a straight line with your eyes closed, but in reverse. Poor coordination. Did you notice that their population was a touch Aryan? 🖖😎👍

[@knighthawk3749]

A touch?

[@sineaterdred1]

@@knighthawk3749 Well, they weren't all blonde 🤗

[@Dndnerd591]

Im glad the slugs won

[@12chapin]

She was the worst. I think Ricki would’ve gone with the Doctor. Hey Omn1😆. Should we hope they survive whatever was out there?

[@hanshotfirst4214]

based slug creatures ngl

[@GladtoberanDOM]

You being suspicious of Ricky… oh dear dear

[@edlerlucasbarcellosdasilva3622]

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[@captainkirk4519]

Why did you say 'black doctor chill'?

[@Bonjourdimanche]

I think he said, “Relax Doctor, chill!”

[@captainkirk4519]

@@Bonjourdimanche could of been.

[@SupaKen74]

This was about Racism. This was always about racism.

[@Omn1Media]

Among many other things but yes haha that was what I was referring to here 30:18

[@backtoearth1983]

It was rich privelage and racism all along dude.

[@KumaTorey]

even with a physical literal creature who will inevitably kill you, a bigot living in an ethno state world would still say no to help of an outsider

[@tdogs51]

rtd portrayed rich snobs quite brilliantly i thought exactly what society is now the rich everywhere caring about themselves and only themselves

[@AnonymOus-dp3jj]

yep, He copied black mirror and phantasm.. Rtd is a hack.. he copied it follows movie for 73 yards, he copied black mirror , and now Bridgeton in the next episode.

[@pandaphil]

Yes we get it, you hate it.

[@AnonymOus-dp3jj]

@@pandaphil writting and acting is poor… so its terrible, wish it could be better but too many cliche

[@JB-ys8ct]

being inspired by something isn't outright copying it buddy. or else RTD would be getting sued. i don't know why people like you are still hate-watching the show. is it really that hard to just move on and watch something else?

[@kadegetslaid634]

And all of those shows and movies were inspirwd by other content

[@nikdik154]

You mad at being represented or something?

[@csk7769]

Ricky being so Doctor-coded but white is definitely intentional. Lindy happily accepted his help when she was downright offensive to Doc in almost every scene from the beginning of the episode. (It's been very telling to see across the internet who thought the final scene's more direct racism was a twist and who could tell on first watch that it wasn't, with the constant steady flow of setup and foreshadowing) I get why people would ahead of time assume the episode would be some kind of vapid Gen Z on their phones critique from a 60 year old writer, that makes sense, but i hope after watching it's clear to everyone that's not at all what the episode was about. Bubble in the sense of being literally blinded by privilege, (Russell T Davies said so himself in the BTS, that he was curious how many minutes it would take viewers to realize that Finetime only had white inhabitants. 10 minutes? 15 minutes? all the way to the end? and if it took people a while, he hoped everyone would ask themselves why?) and in the sense of white supremacist echo chambers created by tech companies with equally racist algorithms, not as in the sense of branding a generation

[@Foliculad]

Sexual orientation wasn’t a problem though. 😂

[@AlexanderWandering]

Absolutely- After the first 4(5?) episodes this season, it was so clear from the beginning that everyone was white. The "twist" was the most natural place for this episode to go and showed just how "pure breeding" groups still section themselves off from the world in their own bubble.

[@kjo1849]

@@AlexanderWanderingthat’s just a dumb London bubble view fromRTD tho there’s thousands of towns with little to no black people in. It’s fine that people wouldn’t notice .

[@Lexi_Zone]

Also telling that there are some people who deny it was about racism at all.