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[–] kitnaht 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kinda toeing the line of the 'everything is woke now' crowd though to which I would say you haven't seen/understood much Doctor Who if you think social issues are only recently a part of the stories.

I covered that already with

Doctor Who has always had these things as a subtext to their episodes

Everyone knows that Doctor Who has always had this kind of social subtext; but it was more moral dilemmas on a broad scale, rather than specific ongoing social issues in the real world.

Like the way they did the Ood. It was a soft introduction, up until the point where we find out why they are like that and then The Doctor works on fixing it.

That's great -- sometimes parallels to our own social issues can make for a great story; so long as the story is focused on first and foremost and the approach isn't solely on trying to push that particular social viewpoint.

As it is now, I wouldn't be surprised if they made a big orange president try to give up his nation to the daleks as an episode...