allerod said:
and in present time he mentions he had to escape from places, so like. there’s an implication here that she’s responsible for him being sent to a concentration camp :)
it’s all SO BAD
langernameohnebedeutung said:
Yeah the entire scene was unnecessary and that was high-key uncomfortable. There’s a bigger theme to it regarding the way British pop-culture and media handles WW2-topics and the NS-regime and imo it’s not the first time Doctor Who tapped into that, but this was especially bad. The entire scene on top of the Eiffel-Tower made me uncomfortable, the Doctor’s ‘Fascists never win :))) speech’ in front of a woman that she knows is going to be murdered in a concentration camp and especially the ‘ratting someone out to the fucking Nazis, because you have a quarrel with them’ (which is something a lot of people did to harm people from minority groups) made me really uncomfortable. There are plenty of other historical settings where this wouldn’t have been quite so…flat and tone-deaf, too.
yeah exactly. I wish they hadn’t used WW2. Doctor Who has rarely handled it well (hey remember that book where Hitler was actually just being influenced by an evil alien?). did no one think maybe having a non-white Master dress up as a Nazi was a bad idea? did no one think that maybe the Doctor shouldn’t punish him by making him the target of hate crimes?? imagine if we’d had a story where Missy’s comeuppance at the end had been some sort of gendered violence. no matter how evil she’d been up to that point it would still be extremely bad.
