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[SPOILERS - DISCUSSION] Season 1 (Series 14) Episode 9: Empire of Death (lemmy.world)
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[–] az04 5 points 5 months ago

I am kind of surprised that so many people noticed the racism metaphor in Dot and Bubble but no-one (including Russell I'm guessing) noticed the uncomfortable AIDS allegory in the last episode, especially with the first queer actor for the Doctor... "While you were having fun around the universe, everywhere and everyone you were with were infected and now they're going to die"