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Which season of Doctor Who should get a Blu-ray set next? This poll is closed. |
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| One of the black-and-white seasons |
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16 | 29.63% |
| Season 7 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Season 11 |
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1 | 1.85% |
| Season 13 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 15 |
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2 | 3.70% |
| The Key to Time |
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21 | 38.89% |
| Season 21 |
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0 | 0% |
| Season 25 |
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7 | 12.96% |
| Total: | 54 votes | ||
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Warthur posted:Got to The Caretaker in my watchthrough. I appreciate the attempt to examine the tension between anti-militarism and not being a prejudiced rear end in a top hat towards people who may have been in the military in the past but aren't necessarily onboard with that now... but at the same time, I struggle to blame the Doctor for constantly reducing Danny to "ex-soldier" when he has exactly three personality traits, "ex-soldier", "dates Clara", and "teaches maths", and all the narrative weight is resting on the first two. (The fact that Danny uses military-based analogies to explain why he bristles at the Doctor particularly emphasises this; if you want to show that his mindset and outlook and ideology are not solely shaped by his stint in the military, maybe show that his mental horizons are broader than that, you know?) The problem is that as a general construct militaries of some kind have literally always been necessary and useful for every single large organised civilisation in the entire history of the planet, without a single exception. The crimes of the military are not the crimes of soldiers, they're the crimes of the people ordering, training, brainwashing, and sometimes conscripting and even enslaving the soldiers. This gets made extremely awkward by Danny being a black working class man and The Doctor being very heavily coded as an upper class educated intellectual white British man. Horrible genocidal regimes like the Daleks (who are basically nazi stand ins) weren't in fact overthrown or defeated by clever words and plans and pacificism, they were overthrown by soldiers, soldiers of the working class and soldiers who weren't white, especially within the context of Britain, where black and brown soldiers helped win British wars while their populations were starved, enslaved and genocided by the British.
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