Dot and Bubble
Jun. 2nd, 2024 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcWell, that was surprising.
I went into this thinking I knew roughtly what to expect. A Doctor-and-Ruby-Lite story told largely from the perspective of a local companion-substitute learning that everything she thinks she knows is wrong.
And that's sort of what it is. What I wasn't expecting was Lindy to be so consistently awful, and every time she appears to have a nicer side or be having some kind of epiphany, nope, it turns out she's even more awful than we thought. Honestly, in that final scene, I am in no way convinced that I'd be trying quite as hard as the Doctor does to stop these horrible racists being killed by their own mindboggling and entirely unjustified sense of privilege. (A nice touch was having Ricky September -- who is intitally introduced as "Oh, he's the 'internet famous for no real reason' guy", -- turn out to secretly be the least vapid and unpleasant person on the entire planet.)
A lot of people have compared it to Black Mirror, and even speaking as someone who never watched Black Mirror, I can see that. It is, after all, quite literally "What if phones but too much?" And it's also about horrible things happening to people who maybe deserve it because they're horrible, which I understand is also an essential bit of Black Mirror.
Still not sure how the Dot actually made the creatures. And the alphabetical order reveal was a bit Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. I would also question how it got quite that far with nobody even noticing, especially given they get visibly eaten on camera. But I think that can be partially explained by most people on Finetime, with the exception of Ricky and maybe Gothic Paul, being both utterly self-centred and incredibly stupid.
Interesting that they're hammering home "Yes, all these characters are Susan Twist and the Doctor and Ruby have noticed" already. I was thinking that might resolve as part of the finale, but now I'm wondering if it might happen before that.
I went into this thinking I knew roughtly what to expect. A Doctor-and-Ruby-Lite story told largely from the perspective of a local companion-substitute learning that everything she thinks she knows is wrong.
And that's sort of what it is. What I wasn't expecting was Lindy to be so consistently awful, and every time she appears to have a nicer side or be having some kind of epiphany, nope, it turns out she's even more awful than we thought. Honestly, in that final scene, I am in no way convinced that I'd be trying quite as hard as the Doctor does to stop these horrible racists being killed by their own mindboggling and entirely unjustified sense of privilege. (A nice touch was having Ricky September -- who is intitally introduced as "Oh, he's the 'internet famous for no real reason' guy", -- turn out to secretly be the least vapid and unpleasant person on the entire planet.)
A lot of people have compared it to Black Mirror, and even speaking as someone who never watched Black Mirror, I can see that. It is, after all, quite literally "What if phones but too much?" And it's also about horrible things happening to people who maybe deserve it because they're horrible, which I understand is also an essential bit of Black Mirror.
Still not sure how the Dot actually made the creatures. And the alphabetical order reveal was a bit Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. I would also question how it got quite that far with nobody even noticing, especially given they get visibly eaten on camera. But I think that can be partially explained by most people on Finetime, with the exception of Ricky and maybe Gothic Paul, being both utterly self-centred and incredibly stupid.
Interesting that they're hammering home "Yes, all these characters are Susan Twist and the Doctor and Ruby have noticed" already. I was thinking that might resolve as part of the finale, but now I'm wondering if it might happen before that.
