Literally the second episode of the reboot series is set during the destruction of Earth, which is caused by the bureaucratic state deciding it's not worth keeping around anymore. There are no more humans - Our descendants consist of a monster (depicted as white and evil) and a half-breed (depicted as virtuous and played by a black woman), who are attending its destruction as some kind of entertainment or self-aggrandizing performative wake.
The episode is not about saving Earth. It's not about rediscovering humanity. It's not even about mourning our loss. The loss of Earth is a background detail, and its point is that you don't matter, your time is at an end, and you just have to deal with it if you want to be part of the future.
This was in 2005. I can't speak for the original series since I've only seen the pilot episode, but the reboot series was pozzed right from the fucking start. Not just in the cringy interracial relationship or anything surface-level like that. Its anti-white, anti-British, and even anti-humanity values were always part of the show, a decade before they would become mainstream.
Si-Fi has been full of that, dude. If Earth doesn't have humans on it, then these "progressives" think it's not worth anything any more. Period. They're every bit as bad as the right-wing "nothing matters but humans" crowd on that one.
Hell, I have a book of essays by Isaac Asimov ("View from a Height") where he discusses how it'd be much more efficient to build inside large asteroids, instead of on the surface of things. You'd be able to get more livable square footage inside than outside (not to mention it'd be safer, and easier to regulate the atmosphere.) Fine. Until he starts discussing how trillions of humans crawling around inside of rock-chunks someday decide they don't need the planets any more, and blow up Earth so they can fit a few trillion more naked apes into the asteroids that result.
Absolutely NO word on the right of all the other species that still must call Earth home to keep what is THEIR planet, too.
Progs don't care about the environment. They only care about fuckables.
(At least, I think that's the title. It's not the only one I have, and I've read more at the library in the past, but damn, that bit really stuck.)
The episode is not about saving Earth. It's not about rediscovering humanity. It's not even about mourning our loss. The loss of Earth is a background detail, and its point is that you don't matter, your time is at an end, and you just have to deal with it if you want to be part of the future.
You're looking at the episode through a "modern day lens", as the kids would say.
The episode is used to establish that the Time War has greatly impacted the Doctor. He is much more cynical and bitter, while Rose is depicted as utterly naive. The Doctor wants to rattle Rose's cage, so he takes her several billion years into the future to show how Earth will basically be nothing more than a glorified building demolition. He's lost Gallifrey, his home, and eventually Earth will also be gone.
But the purpose of this is also to show how Rose will gradually soften the Doctor as the series goes on. She is naive, and she does have some harsh lessons, but she also makes the Doctor realize that as tragic as his past it and that nothing will last forever, it can make what you do have now all the more precious.
Isn't in that episode the Earth is being destroyed because the sun is going supernova? So its not so much they are blowing it up but at that point in the show no one has every stopped something on that scale before.
There's some tiny agency within whatever galactic superpower it is which preserves planets as historical sites. There's some kind of machine that magically prevents the sun from going supernova, which is operated by all of one guy and a handful of oompa loompa. It's supposed to be some kind of comically absurd penny-pinching bureaucratic bullshit, but obviously they don't go into any detail because Doctor Who is softer sci-fi than fucking Megas XLR.
Literally the second episode of the reboot series is set during the destruction of Earth, which is caused by the bureaucratic state deciding it's not worth keeping around anymore. There are no more humans - Our descendants consist of a monster (depicted as white and evil) and a half-breed (depicted as virtuous and played by a black woman), who are attending its destruction as some kind of entertainment or self-aggrandizing performative wake.
The episode is not about saving Earth. It's not about rediscovering humanity. It's not even about mourning our loss. The loss of Earth is a background detail, and its point is that you don't matter, your time is at an end, and you just have to deal with it if you want to be part of the future.
This was in 2005. I can't speak for the original series since I've only seen the pilot episode, but the reboot series was pozzed right from the fucking start. Not just in the cringy interracial relationship or anything surface-level like that. Its anti-white, anti-British, and even anti-humanity values were always part of the show, a decade before they would become mainstream.
Si-Fi has been full of that, dude. If Earth doesn't have humans on it, then these "progressives" think it's not worth anything any more. Period. They're every bit as bad as the right-wing "nothing matters but humans" crowd on that one.
Hell, I have a book of essays by Isaac Asimov ("View from a Height") where he discusses how it'd be much more efficient to build inside large asteroids, instead of on the surface of things. You'd be able to get more livable square footage inside than outside (not to mention it'd be safer, and easier to regulate the atmosphere.) Fine. Until he starts discussing how trillions of humans crawling around inside of rock-chunks someday decide they don't need the planets any more, and blow up Earth so they can fit a few trillion more naked apes into the asteroids that result.
Absolutely NO word on the right of all the other species that still must call Earth home to keep what is THEIR planet, too.
Progs don't care about the environment. They only care about fuckables.
(At least, I think that's the title. It's not the only one I have, and I've read more at the library in the past, but damn, that bit really stuck.)
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It's probably for the best that we never ascend to the stars if we're just gonna be packed into a bunch of space rocks.
You're looking at the episode through a "modern day lens", as the kids would say.
The episode is used to establish that the Time War has greatly impacted the Doctor. He is much more cynical and bitter, while Rose is depicted as utterly naive. The Doctor wants to rattle Rose's cage, so he takes her several billion years into the future to show how Earth will basically be nothing more than a glorified building demolition. He's lost Gallifrey, his home, and eventually Earth will also be gone.
But the purpose of this is also to show how Rose will gradually soften the Doctor as the series goes on. She is naive, and she does have some harsh lessons, but she also makes the Doctor realize that as tragic as his past it and that nothing will last forever, it can make what you do have now all the more precious.
Isn't in that episode the Earth is being destroyed because the sun is going supernova? So its not so much they are blowing it up but at that point in the show no one has every stopped something on that scale before.
I'd say that's a little different.
There's some tiny agency within whatever galactic superpower it is which preserves planets as historical sites. There's some kind of machine that magically prevents the sun from going supernova, which is operated by all of one guy and a handful of oompa loompa. It's supposed to be some kind of comically absurd penny-pinching bureaucratic bullshit, but obviously they don't go into any detail because Doctor Who is softer sci-fi than fucking Megas XLR.