"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.There's a yubtub essayist who published a vid a few weeks back with the title "Is Doctor Who trans now? (YES)"
RIP Ricky September.
It's painful how many layers there are in this episode.
More painful how many are only gonna see the superficiality of the superficiality.
But seriously, Niemöller as a first book of letters.
OMG, it's even the K.C. Greene meme!
The subtle aesthetics of the boat boarding.
The color of the fabrics as they all walk down the pier. Only to camera back to our heroes and see the same color on Ruby.
[This is a color meaningful in U.K. politics. So at first, yeah. But then Ruby's jacket. The meaning shifts.]
Yet also, Hoochy Pie's hat and lapels, in the close-up shot with her seated behind the episode's viewpoint character.
Evocative.
Contemporary meets historical.
Hint: The rich kids were the last they came for.
Can we sit also for a moment with choice of naming for our viewpoint character?
First, her historical namesake, a nativist antisemite who also famously refused help from those he was more than ready to denounce—while accepting medals from Nazis.
That same name, having been taken up as that of a dance originating in Harlem—here is the name of a white girl who calls herself "stupid" for how she even walks.
[Note: that slur has expansive meanings in her society.]
"They can't not be here. We all have to work. It's what we do. We work, and then we play."
So many reactors hung up on the fact that the kids are rich.
Homeworld is population zero.
They came for the rich white kids *last*.
"[T]hey're saving us to eat last. Maybe we're the most tasty." [eye roll]
The abolitionist moment that's part of this also…
LINDY: But I really need the police.
POLICE: All lines are busy. We regret we cannot help you at this time.
LINDY: But I really need the police. There... there's a murder. There was a murder ten feet to my right.
POLICE: All lines are busy. We regret we cannot help you at this time.
LINDY: Please will someone help me?
Meanwhile, on the screen either side of the police logo, folk trying to help.
LINDY: But... what about Mummy?
HOOCHY: She's not there, darling pie.
LINDY: You mean she... she's gone... to the Sky?
HOOCHY: That's right.
LINDY: Well, lucky Mummy. [smile/chuckle]
HOOCHY: That's what I said.
LINDY: That's so lucky. [fuller smile that somehow doesn't reach the eyes]
Lindy, like Splice, unprepared to do the work of #mourning.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics. (@[email protected])
Content warning: Doctor Who *spoilers*
Yet another layer…
"they're not bugs from the outside"
Bugs.
People disappearing from an online society. #pandemic
"Look how many are missing."
Refugees on a boat that's barely a raft. #climate
Their world itself "learnt to hate" them.
"Slugs" as orca.
Or "slugs" as macrophages: Greek for large eaters. (A problematic "humans are the virus" reading that cannot be ignored.)
apropos: https://social.edist.ro/@Outersider/112543235884788864
[And yeah, pandemic is climate, so same layer.]
Outersider 🇵🇸 (@[email protected])
If you believe humans are the "virus;" that also includes you, so that means you are implying that you & everyone else should unalive themselves just to get rid of the "virus." Seriously, eco-fascists liberals advocating for mass exterminations while saying vote blue to "protect" LGBTQIA & Disability rights is absolutely mind-boggling. I met them & they are genuinely terrifying.
The creature design of the monsters is relevant to previous toot and to the discussion above alike.
Slugs being notoriously slow moving. Creeping, even.
Creeping eugenics of ongoing #pandemic.
Creeping #climate change.
Creeping fascism.
Slowly but surely, seeming to ignore the privileged, who blithely walk where they told, work and then play, in ignorance, confident that others are "stupid", until…
"Check your files!"
We've come a long way from IBM punch cards.
The more reactions to this episode watched, the more disappointed am in us as a culture.