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Doctor Who | 3x9 - REACTION WHOLIGHTS! (Patreon)

Published:
2020-11-08 21:48:30
Imported:
2021-02

Content

"The Family of Blood"

Review BEGINS At:  31 Mins & 46 Seconds

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Episode Synopsis:  The Doctor must deal with the repercussions of his decision to become human, as The Family Of Blood unveil themselves...

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Dr Who 3x9 HIGHLIGHTS [re-up]

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Comments

Trey Harris
>>47370624

(Sorry this is so long but this specific question is something I’ve been thinking about since first seeing this episode 15 years ago…) Not to get too heavy with this, but I think there’s a danger in fandom of confusing the sociological idea of “historical presentism” with the looser pop-culture idea of “problematic faves”. Presentism means, basically, that you have to make allowances for the rampant and overt racism, misogyny, heteronormativity, etc., within their contemporary culture in considering whether a historical personage was “‘really’ racist/sexist/etc.”. So we might think of Abraham Lincoln as being an admirable figure on matters of race when he definitely held attitudes and said things that would be considered unacceptably racist today. In contrast, the label “problematic fave” is usually applied to a contemporary artist—either still alive or recently-enough alive to where one can consider them beholden to relatively modern-day views on these subjects. The two require superficially-similar analysis and so can get hopelessly confused, especially in period drama—time-travel drama isn’t a genre large enough to have a body of work devoted to it specifically! The long and short is that I don’t think it’s useful to just dismiss Joan Redfern as “a racist” as if that’s an objective thing one can say—by today’s standards she was, but she was depicted as being a product of the late 19th century. A more interesting question is this: even if we presume Joan Redfern is a “good person” who—exposed to modern views of race and shown how wrong her views are—would have changed and made amends to Martha, whether Martha could have—or should have—abided Joan’s presence. I think it’s equally defensible to say “the Doctor knows Martha better than we, the audience, do, so he may have known that she would have been okay with Joan’s presence” as to say “the Doctor should have known better than to re-inflict Joan’s racist abusiveness (or even the memory of her prior abuse) on Martha”. I tend to agree that it seems, at best, insensitive. But the Doctor is imperfect, and Ten’s arc is about his own misapprehension of his own imperfections and his ultimately fatal hubris in his own belief he could make any problem tractable by sheer force of will. And he had, remember, just recovered from the experience of being a human man in love with this woman. In other words, I think the Doctor was wrong to make that offer to Joan as he did, and it was thoughtless towards Martha—but it wasn’t out of character.

Mal

the frustration over the doctors treatment of martha is so real omg im so glad you guys picked up on it and empathize with her so strongly. martha rules!!

Josh wren

I love your reaction for this whole entire video it was one of the best 2 parter doctor who episodes in my personal opinion, with some more upcoming which are amazing !!! By the way that timed absolutely perfectly with Remembrance Sunday 😊 have a great day !

LC

John Smith sucked but the Doctor inviting a racist onto the TARDIS to travel with him and Martha after already putting her in a position to work as a servant for 2 months? Unspeakably Bad Vibes.

Henry from CO

My favorite David Tennant episode.

Ryan Andrew Sanderson

This was a really fitting episode for Remembrance Sunday

Toasted Toad

oh, and p.s. John - never feel bad for giving your honest opinion about an episode. We'll argue with you about it in the comments and explain how wrong you are 😉, but that doesn't mean we want to stop watching you!!