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skington May 2 2017, 02:26:41 UTC
The whole thing about the Doctor Who "we built a utopia and then people turned up with unexpected emotions and robot death mayhem ensued" = "the writers are privileged whites because they assume that colonists would be like them" is baffling to me. (And I should mention that I'm a privileged white cis male, so dear God if I'm mansplaining please stop me now.)

"It's written by white people": in the very next episode (which OP hadn't seen at the time, to be fair), Bill says basically "I can't go to 1812, I'm black, there's still slavery". "It's not written by immigrants": no, it's written about the come-uppance of the ruling class.

Surely the point of the episode is that humanity, in the face of a massive disaster, panicked and rushed a solution that went haywire, and it needed the Doctor to turn up and point out to them that they'd accidentally created a new sentient race, and any problems were down to the original hasty, faulty specification of said intelligent emoji robots?

The hallmark of any decent art is that we all find ourselves in it, so perhaps it's a glowing endorsement of this episode that I can honestly say that, to me, the tragic sin was that of faulty IT procurement.

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