watching a video on youtube abt making zines and shes like "i have a full exciting life that i create for myself every single day that has nothing to do with zines. and i think that when you have more things going on in your life youre less likely to become hyperfocused on the reaction you get to your work" and im like damn outgecalled, no wonder we get neurotic abt it here on the hyperfocus no life website
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Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.
There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:
“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”
And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).
I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)
To quote RTD:
“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”
This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)
—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?
How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?
And this just keeps happening.
And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.
The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.
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I think I spoke too soon, it’s time to clear the air
it’s quiet in my room, the silence is unfair
I’ve been hearing voices, none of them are you
late at night I tell myself nothing this good could last forever
no one cries like you
I’ve seen you in the moon, I wish that you were here
you promised me your word, a whisper in my ear
every night I tell myself nothing like you could last forever
no one lies like you
I’ve been hearing voices, none of them are you
speak to me, my love
speak to me, my love
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Watching Casanova is divided into two parts.
Part the first: This is spent absolutely loving everything. The acting, the writing, the characterization, and so forth. It is spent in cackling at hilarious lines and in fond comparisons between Giac and Ten. (Seriously, it's like they took a Doctor Who episode, made it longer, and then turned it R-rated... And I love it.) It is also spent in appreciation of the music, and in a game of trying to identify every actor that both looks a bit familiar and ends up having been in a Doctor Who at some point. Finally, it is spent in anticipating a happy end to the love story: a positive conclusion for Giac and Henriette.
Part the second: this is spent in wondering how the hell it's possible to be dumb enough to think that a Russell T Davies script, Murray Gold soundtrack composition, David Tennant's acting, and a character with heavy parallels to Ten would ever have a happy ending. It is also spent in sobbing your eyes out.
That being said, it's a brilliant film and I highly recommend it. (Also, if I had a nickel for every line or delivery that made me think of Ten, I'd have enough nickels to buy me the therapy I need after both the film itself and Tennant's era of DW.)
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