I had to fast forward throughout Rosa, not because I didn't like the episode, but because I felt uncomfortable and self-aware watching it.
You know an episode's good when it's not just entertaining, but thought-provoking as well.
He didn't have a seat to go back to, he gave up his seat and the unoccupied one beside him to a couple that got on at that stop. That stop brought the bus to eleven white passengers, with him as number eleven when he stood up. There's no need to have him ask for the seat, as Rosa's row was legally required to be vacated as soon as there was an eleventh white passenger.
For the first time in a VERY LONG time, Doctor Who felt very, "classic." It reminded me VERY much in development and story telling in line with the very beginning of the show, where the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan got caught up in a moment in history and had to help it play out.
From the opening credits running before the episode starts, to the Doctor and her three companions landing in the middle of a big event in time. This was a true "origins" Doctor Who story in every sense.
It was classic in the sense that Doctor Who was originally dreamed up to be a look at history, but it was way too preachy. Okay, we get it, racism is bad, stop whacking everyone over the head with it already!
That dynamic would be awesome. I am not a big fan of the episodes Chibnall wrote for dr who but his torchwood episodes were fantastic. I think he would do something really good with Jack Harkness.Captain Jack has seen two Doctors, considering the character I would just love him to make an appearance with #13
One 15 second bit was on the preachy side but it wasn't outside of what they'd actually say, you know?. Outside of that, that's what it was like at that time in that place. If you're traveling in time with people from today, it's a stark contrast and you're going to have to point these things out. What is read in history books doesn't do the reality justice quite frankly.
It was a lot more than 15 seconds. That's been the problem with a lot of TV shows in the last couple of years. Instead of just trying to make entertaining television, they want to make endless social commentary. I don't want your moralizing, I want to be entertained. But what you're saying simply does not hold true. The Doctor has been around for a very long time and has seen pretty much all of history, has lived through a large portion of it. The idea that the Doctor would arbitrarily pick a single era of time and pick their moral views as "true" and apply it to all of history. A true student of, and direct experiencer of history, would recognize that morals and ethics change over time and especially for someone who has been to the future and seen that the morals we hold today have been tossed out and new ones adopted, just as we've done with morals of the past, it just doesn't hold true.
This is just the BBC and the regressive left virtue signalling. It's not good writing, it's political grandstanding.
There's one bit that comes off a pit preaching in E3 where they're
sitting next to a dumpster.
People today experience racism. No doubt. However, it pales to what it was in the '50's. Even with what the read in schools or saw in movies, it'd be pure culture shock to have to actually endure it.
As far as attitudes changing. Yeah, they do. Is there less racism today than the 50's? Absolutely. Is there less than say the 80's or 90's? I'm going to say no, there's more today that 20ish years ago, which is sad. Recognizing it isn't political, it's paying attention.