Before the review tomorrow, a redcap...
Very heavy episode tonight, dealing with a lot of real world issues that will make a lot of people very uncomfortable as they watch. I think it's important though...Doctor Who has had a political streak running through it ever since the second serial, with its allusions to Nazism and xenophobia, to the 70's and it's tackling of Denis Healey's time as chancellor of the exchecquer, and most strongly in the final two years of the original run, when Andrew Cartmel and his band of merry left-wing writers demolished everything from Margaret Thatcher downward in episode after episode.
It's always been there.
And this is, I think, the first time it's been as strongly back.
I think it's important to address what's being addressed...it's being picked up in a lot of other entertainment media, so this is not a lone light in the wilderness.
For the first time in a long time, a cliffhanger felt like a cliffhanger.
For the first time in a long time, I really don't know what's coming next.
I look forward to a deeper watch tomorrow in HD, and then a very lengthy review that will cover all of the above and more.
Meet me back here tomorrow, friends, droogies, packmates and sundry.
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