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.
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.
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.