@lionheart564 Thanks for letting me know. For some reason it ended up in the “spam” folder – I’ve released it – is this the one you mean:

Arachnids In The UK

I didn’t write the code for this site, just bodged it together overnight one Christmas using WordPress and Buddypress. For…[Read more]

@tardigrade

you can see why the Doctor might come across as lesbian- relatively short hair, androgynous clothing

Big tick there.   Mum now has short hair;  wears dad’s T-shirts and his 3/4 long trackie-dacks.  In America or the UK you might not know those. In Australia it’s tracksuits in stretch fabric.

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@lionheart564

Racism isn’t a white only thing, I have seen a good number of racists in China, all of them are Chinese and many of them are woman

And in Japan directed at Koreans.

But the show, when not in space, is only very occasionally set outside the UK. A few episodes now have been set the US (and fewer filmed there) and one of them even m…[Read more]

@lionheart564 as I pointed out to @hobbyco, Rosa showed female racists, even one he referred to while trying to make a point about portrayal of heterosexuals.

As for racism from people who aren’t white, the last series showed Bill, encountering a blue person for the first time, and inadvertently coming across as, well, a little racist.

@lionheart564

Racism isn’t a white only thing

No, it certainly isn’t. But if you’re setting an episode in Alabama in 1955, chances are its white racism that you’re going to have to engage with. Quite apart from anything else, that’s the particular brand of racism that’s causing the most toxicity in the world today, so it’s a pretty good place to start.

This one was a bit of a mixed bag for me. Overall I found it fairly enjoyable though.

I thought the spiders were well realised and generally looked quite real. Not really much scare factor to them though. Arachnophobes may disagree 🙂

The interactions between the companions were generally well done and we learned a good deal more about Yaz in…[Read more]