Forgive me if it’s not my place to bring up, but I can’t stop thinking about this season’s treatment of brown women. Cause like Belinda gets almost zero development or agency the whole season and mostly exists to react to things, while Ruby does the plot relevant stuff like meeting Conrad.
Then in Conrad’s World Belinda has to be the housewife character who betrays the Doctor, while Ruby gets to remember the old world and do MORE plot relevant stuff. THEN after they have their memories back Belinda gets actually physically shoved in a box while, again, Ruby meets with Conrad and helps save the world and ends up being the only one to remember Poppy. And ALSO Panjabi!Rani, who gets far less screen time and build up compared to Mrs. Flood, monologues for a bit before meeting a brutal and undignified death. While Mrs. Flood just gets to escape unscathed. What the hell was the point.
THEN!! Because we’re still going!! Belinda is just forced into a motherly role that was never hinted at, and the doctor leaves her behind. And most of the focus on HER motherhood revolves around her child and the fact that the Doctor is sad he isn’t a dad. No space for her to really process what’s been done to her beyond like, one line.
Just. I feel so bad for Belinda’s character. No allowance for growth or agency, no real consideration for her emotions beyond a sudden and unexplained desire for motherhood (shoving specifically a brown woman into a motherly role once the plot no longer requires her), just using brown women when it’s convenient and throwing them out when they’re done. AND the Omega plotline was stupid.
In sum: RTD WHAT is your damage!!!!!!
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