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love this emerging genre of doctor who episode where you think it’s a surface level commentary on one topic (social media; ai), but then the rug gets pulled out from underneath you and it’s actually a more severe social commentary (racism; misogyny/incel culture), BUT THEN it’s actually a pretty adept illustration of how the first and second topics are part of the same problem (social media allows people to create echo chambers which reinforce racism and fear mongering to the point of denying their own lived reality; ai masks human biases as technological progress and exacerbates regressive movements like incel culture)

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What keeps fucking me up the most about the latest Doctor Who episode (The Well) is not that the midnight entity won and escaped, but how it managed to win. The last time, the midnight entity lost because someone sacrificed themselves to keep it trapped. This time, the entity started killing people by following a couple of made-up rules that would guarantee that sooner or later it would manage to escape the planet. Because moving unto the person that killed it's previous host wasn't a rule, it was a choice, and thus, when the time came, it's ticket out. Finally, the time comes... and the Doctor is there. The only living creature that had met the midnight entity before and sabotaged it's plans is there. And... here is the part that fucks me up... the Doctor does what the Doctor does best, he finds a way to win, but he was so focused on finding a loophole in the rules that he never stopped to think about why the midnight entity had started to follow those rules.