Doctor Who has received significant viewer and critical acclaim for an episode, featuring Rosa Parks (Vinette Robinson) that tackled racism and discrimination.
The storyline also did not attempt to influence the event, or in any way inspire Rosa for her actions that day.
Rather, they helped protect the circumstances so that the event did happen.
Not only did the episode highlight racist attitudes in the past, they also highlighted how racism continues today. Ryan (Toisin Cole) talked about being stopped by police and Yaz (Mandip Gill) opened up about being the abuse she has experienced as a Muslim.
They also contextualised Rosa Parks’ story, highlighting the future difficulties she faced and the continued fight for civil rights.
Notably, this was also the first episode in Doctor Who history to have been written by a person of colour.
It was also pointed out that the episode was aired on the same day as a black woman was racially abused and was made to move on an Ryanair flight.
And at the end of the episode, The Doctor highlighted that Rosa Parks not only changed the world but the “universe,” pointing out an asteroid that has been named after her.
Here is Asteroid 284996: Rosaparks.
The Daily Mail seriously tried to claim there was a “Fan Backlash” over how “PC” the show had gotten over this episode
(For those who don’t know, the Daily Mail and the creatures it employs is basically the kind of garbage that even Fox News wouldn’t hire because they are literally the worst kind of filth to ever have sadly not been aborted)
In reality?
This show got a far larger amount of viewers than many of the previous few seasons did and Jodie’s season has done better in terms of ratings so far than any season of the new show has done since before David Tennant left the series
So yeah…if there are fans who are mad about this episode or the new season in general, I’d say that they are the type of “Fans” who the show can do without given that it’s doing BETTER without them watching than it has done in over five years
THIS WAS AN AMAZING EPISODE
And I love how it handled the issues it confronted and also the respect it showed Rosa Parks…the new series past historical episodes where famous people from history showed up have tended to not exactly be very accurate in how they portrayed them..I’m glad that this episode gave Rosa Parks the respect she deserves
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