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.
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.
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.
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.