spiralsheep's
attack on the Doctor Who Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned is misleading and riddled with errors.
In it, she states:
"out of the pool of potential survivors, the fat, black, working class man is killed first"This is incorrect. Morvin is the second of the Doctor's group to die, after the white, upper-class steward who opens a door onto
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Ooh! What's that?
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When you say "echo chambers", do you mean the same thing I mean when I describe online debate as "incestuously amplified" - that is, people who agree getting together and hyping each other up?
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'Thirdly, when asked who, living or dead, Russell would like to see as the Doctor, he replied "Hitler". All the tabloid journalists in the room pricked up their ears while BBC publicists tightened their sphincters.'
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2007/12/doctor_who_christmas_special.html (scroll down)
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*thinking hat on* For example, we can ask why Morvin gets bumped off so quickly, even though he's not the first to die. In old films they used to often kill off the minor Black character early on - suggesting he was worth less than the other characters, or of less interest to the audience. (In some recent films, too - although the cliche is so well-known now that it also gets made fun of, as in the movie Evolution.) So there is an (obviously unintentional) echo of that in Morvin's early demise.
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