robinine replied to your post “could you ask someone who was going to watch deep breath anyway to keep an eye out for potentially seizure triggering bits and warn you about them?”
I am watching the 1st ep on Sat, if you want me to keep an eye out as well? I'm hoping the BBC hasn't been foolish enough to add in possible triggers. There is going to be such an outcry if they have.
There probably won't be much of an outcry. There wasn't much of a peep about Electro's effect being so intense that people like me can't watch commercials for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (which also lacks a stroboscopic warning). Epilepsy is something few understand and care about after all, which is why Hannibal got away with not having a warning on the Miriam Lass strobe light episode, which totally needed a warning.
If there is a circulating, hypnotic light in the new TARDIS interior, that will be less likely to incite a response as well, because while everyone might know that strobe lights are bad, they might not recognize slower moving lights as a potential for danger.
Most likely nobody will care except the tiny portion of people who are affected by it and we'll see it in the next series as well. I mean let's never forget when they put the 50th in theaters, they made it 3D only, which meant people like me were unable to watch the 50th in theaters because the intensity of the 3D could trigger seizures. The BBC is out to make money, not look out for people with phososensitive epilepsy or migraines.
But, you know, that's the nature of having brain damage. People won't take my needs seriously. In school I had to practically commit a sacrifice to get my needs met and even then more often than not, I had to cope with either not being able to read something or missing out on an auditory instruction because my brain shut down my auditory processing. I already know the BBC doesn't give two shits about me or people like me, so I just am going to assume I'll have to be cautious with every episode of series eight. I don't need a warning because I've decided to be on alert as though each episode came with a warning anyway. It's just frustrating to know that it's come to this. It's frustrating to know I have to be on alert for Doctor Who, which it actually helped me with my night terrors brought on by my brain damage as a little child. Every teaser had a stroboscopic flashing element to it and to me that's as good as any "This contains stroboscopic effects. Proceed with caution" alert would be.
That said, if it turns out that the stroboscopic effects are intense or go on for a lengthy amount of time, like the effect in the Will Grahama strobe light episode in season two of Hannibal, I will probably have to give up Doctor Who for the first time in my entire life. I really hope that's not how this turns out.
