#finetime

[humanstein]

I have seen multiple people note how "Doctor-like" they thought Ricky September was. I agree!

I think Ricky September might be there to show that Lindy was eager and willing to accept help and guidance from a white version of The Doctor but that she would refuse that same guidance from Fifteen.

[dandelionjack]

so we all agree that the finetimers are extremely puritanical as a culture, right? no way are these people fucking. apart from the ‘never been hugged before’ scene (space babies parallel, i’ll come back to that) and the fact that they seem initially opposed to any kind of in-person interaction, there’s not much textual evidence that points towards it, but it’s quite easy to extrapolate. an isolationist, white-supremacist colony of post-humans thousands of years into the future, genetically engineered to have blue blood (a symbol of aristocracy) running through their veins — it’s not exactly a stretch to suggest that a culture such as theirs would view sex + sexual reproduction as something uncouth, “uncivilised”, taboo, base and “primitive”.

as for babymaking? these people definitely make use of ‘parthenogenesis machines’ as seen in space babies. in fact, they’re 100% ardent supporters of eugenics and probably pre-select the most “desirable” traits for their infants to develop.

the parallels between finetime and gallifrey have been pointed out before (i’ll tag the post in the comments if anyone asks), but here’s another one. i’m quite certain that the residents of finetime, and finetime’s homeworld, create their children with looms looms i’m trying to type something else but it keeps correcting to “looms” those fetus tanks from space babies. you know. another penny in the “ruby was artificially created” theory jar, more doctor/ruby parallels, and a snazzy bit of worldbuilding

[r2x2]

Some say Ricky September was a woke bae. Others say he was just as bad as Lindy and everyone else in Finetime.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. He probably had some of the prejudices of the society he grew up in but he was still open-minded and intelligent enough to get out of the "bubble" he lived in and reexamine them.

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Okay but what the fuck did those people do to themselves to make them pee only every few days????

[lousyglitch]

Dot and Bubble really made me go from "alright, another black mirror-lite ~phone bad~ critique, RTD means well but his age shows sometimes" to "alright, it's more a critique of rich kid cognitive dissonance and not some petty jab at post-work tiktok or whatever, I can vibe with this" to, finally, "oh wow okay that's exactly what modern doctor who should be doing as a series and I'm sorry I didn't see the vision"

good job rusty D sorry I ever doubted you

also as a fan of Gatwa's acting ever since... well, boom, this was so GOOD

[bluntshavingrazor]

[coppermate]

this might be the first time in doctor who I’ve ever wanted the monsters to win

and by monsters, I mean the slugs

not the racists monsters at the end

[shishuri]

Ricky September is a Schrödinger cat.

Since he died before actually meeting the doctor, we actually do not know whether or not he is the same like every other finetime people.

Even if he reads or is learned, we do not know if all the books he read are not "supremacist centered" since those books could have been supplied by homeworld and it couldn't have been that diverse in the selection of narrative and authors.

He could be smart enough to accept help from the doctor for his own survival, but he could still be not the guy we may thought he is.

So he is both shitty and not shitty and we cannot know the truth because he died. Only until rtd says if he is or isnt the same shall we have our peace of mind