When All Else Fails

I'd have great fun writing about how they specifically used the first verse where the lyrics talk about leaving home to find fortune, then skipped all the ones where other Irish people looked down on him, and jumped right to the one about being mildly persecuted in the place he got off the boat until the singer forms a mob of fellow Irishmen to enact violent revenge on the people there who looked down on him/cast him out because of what he is. Ya know, almost exactly how he's doing in the film.

Not to mention how he has been weaponising Irishness to try ingratiate himself into a persecuted community but purely for his own benefit.

And then, when hes got enough of that community under his control, he turns around and makes them do a funny little dance to a tune from a different culture, with all the terrifying implications and undertones, to a song that was originally Irish/Scotts but was taken by an English man, given English lyrics, and then he used it to make money in English dancehalls without giving credit to its origin. Like, you see what I'm getting at, right? Using the stolen and commercialised concept of Irishness to oppress and over run the will of different and already oppressed community? Like, we don't even know if hes actually Irish at all. Its very possible hes just weaponising it because it makes white people overlook you as harmless, while also potentially automatically ingratiating you to oppressed communities.

people are going to look back on this and ask, why were there only 21 episodes before an indefinite hiatus?

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The final episode of Supernatural aired 2020-11-19.

The final episode of Doctor Who aired 2025-05-31.