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Ponyo

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— stunning ;

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prydon

The Claws of Axos ep.1 - The Doctor’s angry reaction to Mr. Chinn’s xenophobia

ileolai

for historical context [and the ppl who think this show was ever apolitical,] this episode aired during a time when neo nazis were rioting and assaulting people across London, and the National Front was at its peak of popularity

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I’d look with rather profound disbelief at anyone who watches Jon Pertwee’s era and labels it “apolitical”.

I remember that I used to have three main categories that I ended up mentally slotting Pertwee-era stories into:

1) energy sources

2) pollution and environmentalism

3) nuclear armaggedon

Classic Who has always been something of a blunt instrument when tackling what was going on in politics at the time - whether it was the debate over Britain entering the European Union (The Curse of Peladon), or having one of the villains be a caricature of Margaret Thatcher when the show literally had an anti-Thatcher agenda in the late 80s.

ileolai

yeah i mean

the show’s blatant and intentional leftist ideology was pretty clear from the outset [they blew up a thinly veiled metaphor for Fascism in the second ever episode…], but try telling that to ppl to whom Twelve is suddenly and inexplicably ‘’too political’’