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Christopher Eccleston & Billie Piper Behind The Scenes for S01 - Doctor Who: Unleashed, 20 Years in Wales

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Katniss in the arena: I could be killed at any time, so itâs important that I stay on high alert
Haymitch in the arena: OOH LOOK AT BUNNY
Would it be socially acceptable if I point out that itâs because Katniss went into the arena already carrying a lot of heavy childhood trauma in losing her father, her mother going Catatonic for years letting Katniss at 12 be the sole provider for her and her sister both on the bring of starvation. While Haymichâs life wasnât perfect and he also had loss and grief, he had someone else to depend on. I would argue that Katniss likely has some form of PTSD prior to the reaping, whereas Haymich makes it pretty clear early on that for him reaping day is where is all went wrong.
Yes Katniss is an unreliable narrator, but WHY is she unreliable? Most trauma survivors truly do believe things are different than they are. Katniss whole heartedly believed she was hated by her district even though anyone wouldâve told you different.
Also, I think itâs worth pointing out that by the time Katnissâs games are around theyâve been happening long enough for the games themselves to pass down generational trauma. Her mother lost her best friend. Technically her father too because Haymitch didnât really come back. While Katniss states in the books her parents donât talk a lot about it, I know firsthand that you donât need words to pass down generational fears and traumas and expectations.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk in which I turn a funny text meme into a 45 minute dissertation about childhood and generational trauma
Please forgive me for ranting, but...I am so tired of AI. Just so tired. I don't want Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, or Meta AI, or whatever other energy-sucking, water-wasting, mediocrity-spewing LLM is currently being thrust upon me. I just want to be left alone to create in peace.
What is Doctor Who Even Trying to Say Anymore?
Doctor Who has rarely been subtle about politics (âSo the planet down below refused to stop the babies being born, but once they're born, they don't look after them?â- Ruby Sunday, Space Babies). But the underlying politics of season 2 of this new era of Doctor Who are about as confused as theyâve ever been. I think that Russell T Davies has good intentions, but the execution is often not well thought out. More often than not, the message that the show presents is not the message that was probably intended. In Lux, the Doctor makes multiple references to segregation and Jim Crow era laws. However, the rest of the (white) cast barely react to the Doctor and Belindaâs presence, and are friendly when they do, which serves to make the Doctor seem paranoid and overreactive. Given that heâs a black man in 1950âs Miami, his concerns are entirely justified, but the narrative doesnât validate this at all. In Lucky Day, Conrad is presented as a right wing grifter and male manipulator whose entire raison d'ĂŞtre is to bring down UNIT. He is a violent denialist, killing his own allies and refusing to acknowledge that aliens exist, even when he meets them face to face. The trouble with all of this is that UNIT is a government funded military organisation. Framing Conradâs beliefs as extremist and delusional implies that organisations like UNIT (i.e. the police, the military) are above reproach. Anyone who criticises these organisations, their use of public funds and their secretive operations, is aligned with murderous incels. The entire episode reads as copaganda. How dare you want to defund UNIT? Donât you know that theyâre trying to protect you?
And so we arrive at Interstellar Song Contest. Two Hellions â refugees from the destroyed planet Hellia â hijack the singing competition and try to murder the entire audience of three trillion people. Why? Well, the Corporation that funds the song contest invaded their planet, stole their resources, and then burned the planet to the ground when they were done. The Hellions are scattered and disenfranchised, with many people believing that they are witches and cannibals who destroyed their own planet and, as such, they suffer discrimination wherever they go. Nina Maxwell, who is running the song contest backstage, beseeches Wynn to stop, because she put her faith in her. âNo one employees Hellions, but I did.â Wynn is unmoved, immediately proving that Nina should never have hired her by taking advantage of her position to orchestrate a devastating terrorist attack. When Nina calls Kid and Wynn monsters for murdering 100,000 people, Kid says âIâm only doing the things you expect of me.â The entire scene leaves a sour taste in my mouth, for reasons that Iâm struggling to articulate. The story evidently wants the audience to sympathise with the Hellions while condemning their actions, but the narrative that Hellions are inherently dangerous isnât particularly challenged. It sets up a dichotomy of good vs bad Hellions. Cora is a Hellion who has been mutilated to the point that she is passes as a non-Hellion. She is the âgoodâ Hellion who has been divested of all of the parts of her that others would be threatened by: her horns, her language, her culture. Kid and Wynn are âbadâ Hellions, unapologetic about their backgrounds, and are attempting to murder trillions. It is a classic case of taking a character with a legitimate grievance and making them do senseless acts of violence, in order to delegitimise their position.
The threat of this terror attack is supposed to be especially galling, because the three trillion people watching the Interstellar Song Contest are you. They represent the audience of Doctor Who far more so than the audience stand-ins in Lux did. This terrorist attack is a direct threat to you and your loved ones, for the crime of watching television. After all, why should you be held responsible for some faceless corporation doing terrible things many, many miles away from you? But the problem is, Kid and Wynn are right. This passive audience is complicit in the crimes of the Corporation. They watch the song contest and they buy the honey and they believe the propaganda being fed to them about the Hellions destroying their own world. They, like many people in the Western world, benefit passively from the subjugation and destruction of other cultures, whether they know it or not.
With the inclusion of the Interstellar Song Contest (a futuristic version of Eurovision) itâs hard not to make comparisons with Israel and Palestine. Obviously this is not a 1:1 allegory â the situation in Palestine is more complex than simple corporate greed â and there are probably other invasions that fit the bill more closely (the USAâs repeated salvoes into the Middle East for oil spring to mind). But the fact that in 2025, Israel is still allowed to perform at Eurovision, while Russia has been banned since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, means that the conflict is salient to the conversation. Eurovision whitewashes Israelâs atrocities just as the ISC whitewashes the Corporationâs. The ending of this episode is supposed to be uplifting. Cora sings a beautiful song in her native language, spreading awareness of the Corporationâs violent destruction of her home. Or maybe not. This is, after all, a broadcast sponsored by the Corporation. So instead of that, this is an aria for the dead, mourning the loss of her people and her culture. The audience of the song contest, if they even know that Cora is a Hellion, have no reason to come away from this performance feeling anything other than âisnât it sad that all those people diedâ and âgee, maybe not all Hellions are evilâ. This is a proclamation against direct action. The message is clear. Sing a pretty song for the dead; donât fight for justice for the living.
But ultimately, in spite of the messy, misguided politics of the rest of the episode, the biggest problem in this episode is the Doctor himself. He is uncharacteristically cruel and violent, which wouldnât necessarily be a problem, but his lack of remorse is. He claims that Kidâs attempts to murder the three trillion people watching the ISC triggered him, because it made him think of his home planet. Why, then, does the destruction of Hellia not provoke a similar anger? He doesnât acknowledge that he has been in Kidâs position, murdering the people he holds responsible, erroneously, for the destruction of his home planet. The Doctor tortures Kid, because he is Kid. The (almost) deaths of three trillion hit home for the Doctor and he loses himself in trying to punish his own dark reflection. After all, isnât he also an orphan who uses a title rather than a name? A person who doesnât remember ever having had parents? A lonely scion of a destroyed planet? With this justification, I could perhaps stomach the Doctorâs treatment of Kid, if the Doctor ever acknowledged what happened to Hellia in this episode. But he doesnât. He lets himself succumb to anger and hurts Kid for attempting to kill three trillion people, but doesnât spare a thought for the dead of Hellia. Youâd think that a person who had witnessed his own planet destroyed (twice) would have some empathy for the Hellions who have lost their homes, their families, their culture, and are now being persecuted across the galaxy. But the Doctor doesnât acknowledge their plight. Nor does he acknowledge the Corporation and the Interstellar Song Contestâs role in Helliaâs destruction. Kid and Wynn are sent off to the appropriately dystopian-sounding âJustice Monolithâ, but thereâs no mention of justice for the planet full of people who were exploited and murdered. The Corporation ends this episode the way it started: unchallenged, with Hellions as its scapegoats.

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Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)
Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch youâve ever met in your life.
Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!
Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks
Modern writing advice: Itâs all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! Itâs a character arc! Itâs called growth! Readers love it!
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You really need to make non-tragic past for your characters, significant people and events that impacted their lives, non-dramatic mundane moments that shaped them, happy memories, bitter memories, embarrassing memories.
Like yes the space princess lost her whole civilization, but did she have friends before that? Favorite place? Does she miss the sound of her favorite music she use to listen to?
You need to show us the flowers for us to be sad when you write that they ripped the garden out

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Comrade Corvid dismantles the tools of oppression used against his fellow birds.
every person ive ever suggested to that going through your partners phone not only invades their privacy but also the privacy of all the people who have possibly texted very personal things to them have acted like they genuinely never thought of that before
like how many of you have sent or received texts about mental or physical health issues on your phone. embarrassing problems like grades or money or hygiene. intricate details of family dynamics. you might want a no secrets type relationship but your partner has other peopleâs secrets to keep too lol
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The Reluctant Victor, inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche - I just thought that this painting was SO perfect for Katniss and I had to draw it!
A lot of people have asked me to talk about Prim holding the crown, so here's a general deep dive into the characters I picked and their placements!
Starting with Prim. She was reaped, which led to Katniss volunteering to save her. It's, of course, very unlikely that Prim would have won the Games like Katniss did. Prim innocently playing with the crown that could have never been hers is also a reference to how excited she was when Katniss' wedding was happening, how she looked at it with children's eyes, impatient for her to try on the dresses. But she's also not as naive or helpless as Katniss believes, which is why her expression is grave and not cheerful.
Asterid is kissing Katniss' forehead in a very motherly gesture. Katniss is unmoved, though she still takes her hand. This is a reference to Katniss' resentment towards her mother when she stopped caring for them after Burdock's death, but also to Katniss' attempts at forgiving her in Catching Fire.
Effie is sitting at Katniss' feet, holding her hand. This represents the sincere -yet sometimes misguided- dedication that Effie has to Katniss. It also felt like an interesting placement, as Victors are often idolized by Capitol citizens.
Katniss, of course, is at the center. She's the reluctant victor, in her fire dress (with a lot of orange in it to reference Peeta, shhh). I hesitated to give her the wedding dress Snow forces her to wear instead, but felt that her fire dress was more recognizable and striking, and better represented how she is seen by the world: the girl on fire.

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What is or isnât a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.
âJonny Sims bummed a fag off my maâ doesnât contain a slur, but âWhat are you, some kind of fag?â does.
âQueer studiesâ, âthe queer communityâ and âIâm queerâ? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a âdirty queerâ? Slur.
âBe gay, do crimesâ and âHeâs gayâ â slur, but âEw, thatâs so gayâ = slur.
In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking âq slurâ bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community arenât using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.
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americans are like fuck america until itâs time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse đ then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance đ like ok fourth of july. didnât know units of measurement had oil đ
âitâs the superior system for the human experienceâ no itâs just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also âhuman experience of temperatureâ like yeah iâm sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. âitâs better for colder areasâ then why arenât icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they donât see a negative number and panic cos thatâs too scary for them. âitâs more precise for body heatâ we have decimals. is anything thatâs not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up Iâm so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isnât, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Something that I realized recently is that the range that Americans talk about as âintuitiveâ is based around the number 100, much like the metric system that they refuse to use.