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jack’s transphobic monologue at the end of greek’s bearing gifts is arguably the worst moment in any doctor who related media. truly CANNOT believe that it actually made it to broadcast and nobody suggested that it should be rewritten…
It’s interesting how the theme of corruption, corruption of the soul, so to speak, is so present in Being Human. It’s a running theme from the first season down to the last, and even the purest souls can’t resist it, if the right moment and right circumstances align.
In the first season we have Mitchell of course, who resists Herrick and killing, but eventually gets sucked back by the prospect of the “Greater Good”. We have George who ends the season murdering an unarmed person (yes, a vampire and a mass murderer, but still unarmed) that traumatizes him.
In the second season there’s a whole theme of corruption of the soul by obsessing over revenge that is going on with Kemp and Lucy who is also killing people for the Greater Good. Mitchell is constantly being corrupted by the unwanted political power he now has. There’s a corrupted human cop who wants to use him for lynching the criminals who got away from justice (something that becomes the main theme in Toby’s 2024 show The Red King). There’s that coroner who was previously covering for Herrick and was made to work for Mitchell.
In the third season we have Mitchell saying that George was corrupted by him because George always suspected about the Box Tunnel 20 by chose to look away.
Even the purest of them all Tom was willing to turn his back on humanity to save Eve in s4. Tom who hates vampires more than anything else, was ready to become their lapdog out of love for the baby. Same was with Annie who was also willing to do anything out of motherly love for Eve, but eventually that motherly love was the thing that tipped the scales.
In season 5 we have Rook who is not a bad person at his core, but is doing heinous crimes out of sense of Duty and the Greater Good. We have the whole Devil’s corruption arc. And as we know from the DVD extra scene he was successful in corrupting our trinity, even if just for time being.
It’s a recurring theme for Toby as it seems – given how it is present in The Red King and now in the Bergerac trailer where the character asks the titular hero if he’s a corrupted cop. Speaking of which, it also seems like Toby is not a big fan of the police system. There’s only one good cop in Being Human and she gets killed. And in The Red King the whole system is broken. So, it will be interesting to see how he will deal with it in Bergerac.
i can’t help but laugh a little at the fact that toby whithouse only wrote for one episode of torchwood and gave a transphobic line to the omnisexual immortal time traveller, and the team said, never again. 😭
Chronological Doctor Who Watchthrough #17:
A Town Called Mercy (1860s)
The time period of this episode is a little ambiguous. TARDIS Wiki says 1870 but I can’t work out why, I don’t believe any year is explicitly stated in-episode. The only real in-universe indicators I can think of are the Wild West setting and the Doctor’s statement that electric street lights are about ten years early. Based on these facts, I’m putting it loosely in the 1860s.
I really like this episode. Kahler-Jex is an absolutely fascinating character and it feels like every scene with him pulls back another layer. Upon first meeting, he seems like a nice guy, if a little suspicious. We later learn that he’s a seeming monster who experimented on people without consent and caused unimaginable amounts of pain and death. What’s more, we see him happy and willing to threaten Amy with a gun and later double down in his actions. We then hear the Doctor’s revelation that his ‘reformation’ is a kind of punishment he chose for himself, and we can see from his reaction that the Doctor is absolutely right. He talks about his own religious beliefs, explaining his fear of death, and showing that he does actually understand that he has wronged people. And when the Doctor pushes him over the line, to let him die, but then changes his mind, he does not come back. While he doesn’t have the guts at this point to leave of his own accord, once pushed over the line, he stays there. Even seeks forgiveness from the Gunslinger. All this hints at a much more conflicted and guilty character than the confident and self-assured exterior he projects. And of course, in the end, he chooses to face his fear and sacrifice himself for the greater good.
There’s a reason the episode opens with a direct link drawn between Jex and the Doctor. They are characters, as Jex himself says, with many similarities, but Jex embodies the idea that ends justify means, and the Doctor embodies the opposite, except of course for a moment of weakness in which he does push Jex to (almost) his death. This fundamental difference in ideology is the framework this episode is built around. Even the Gunslinger has his own point of view, in that when he’s the means, he is angry enough to hunt people across the Universe, but he is willing to go to any means to achieve his own ends. Or - he says he is. But when push comes to shove, we see that he can’t kill innocents (apart from one accident with Isaac).
My favourite scene in the episode is the one where the Doctor threatens Jex’s life. It’s less extreme than something like what we see in ‘The Waters of Mars’ or ‘Hell Bent’, but it’s a fantastic example of the Doctor going too far. Matt Smith and Karen Gillan’s acting in this scene as she has her little speech about how they need to be better ties wonderfully into this Doctor’s overall arc, particularly for series 7A. And I’m really glad the Doctor’s antics have a very tangible effect in that Isaac gets killed, which hurts.
I also want to mention that team who designed and created the prosthetics and costuming for the Gunslinger did a ridiculously good job, as did Murray Gold in composing a brilliant Western-style score.
Bergerac is returning with a 2025 makeover and plenty of networks are welcoming the iconic detective back.
The Jersey-set series was made for UK channel U&Drama by Banijay’s BlackLight TV and Westward Studios, with Damien Molony (The Split, Brassic) playing the titular crime fighter, Jim Bergerac. The premiere is Feb 27 2025.
The original series came from Robert Banks Stewart and starred John Nettles. It ran for nine seasons between 1981 and 1991. Unlike that show, which had a new storyline in each episode, the modern series from writer Toby Whithouse follows one character-led murder mystery.
another doctor who thought!
I've seen people ragging on the "everywheres a beach eventually" line for being a shallow "fake deep" moffat-ism but I thought it was one of the better lines of the episode?
it's certainly in the usual quippy, philosophy-lite style that moffat favours but it's not as if it's totally empty. climate change, erosion, human abandonment and entropy will turn everywhere into a beach in the end and this is a casual reminder that this doctor may look young but he is old and tired and furious. how many pointless wars has he seen by this point? how much destruction has he witnessed in the name of religion?
In 1580, as a romantic gesture (and to divert any feelings toward him) the Doctor took his companion Amy and her fiancé to Venice. However, the romance was interrupted when the city appeared to be invaded by Vampires. The truth turned out to be even more alien. ("The Vampires of Venice", Doctor Who, vlm 3, TV)