KHAELIS

Never once you hear “racism is wrong”.

They didn’t fall into that huge trap.

What I mean is, the episode wasn’t overly melodramatic, they didn’t play violins and sad music, they didn’t try to show racism is wrong - because anyone with a functional brain already knows racism is immensely stupid, people already know it’s wrong.

They didn’t focus on the negativity of racism.

They focused on the sheer positivity of that wonderful and amazing woman.

The end wasn’t, “what happened to this woman was horribly wrong”.

The end was, “that woman kicks arses and she was badass enough to make a stand and fight for her rights, and she changed the whole bloody future”.

- the Doctor is not the hero in this episode. Seriously, she’s just a sidekick who helps the hero be heroic, and even then, she couldn’t have helped without her gang. The real hero is Rosa Parks.

- no SJW  and everything will get better shit in this. It felt real, very factual. Horrible, yes, but real.

- for some reasons, this episode strongly reminded me of Rose’s speech (here) in S1 finale The Parting of Ways  - change the word Doctor into Rosa Parks in that speech and you get something along the lines of :

Rosa showed us a better way of living, that you just don’t give up, you just don’t let things happen, you make a stand, you say no.

- And that’s the message in this episode. And that’s why I believe Rosa is the real Doctor in this episode. She’s a better Doctor than the Doctor has ever been, in a way.

So, yeah. Rosa is the best DW that’s ever been made IMO. Because it has and it is everything DW should have always been about.

DAVID TENNANT - 4H00

Don’t ask me why I can never get a decent photo, even when I nailed the Satanic hair - I mean, compared to what I usually do! ^-^

Tenth Doctor & Rose - Graphite

Finally, I’ve managed to finish this, wheeehoo! I’ll try to draw more of them when I get the chance! :-)