Agreed: Token gay character got narrative short-shift, the suckitude of which increases exponentially due to total lack of gay characters in Moffat-era Who
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Clearly the solution is an interracial trans lesbian couple who will be the next companion-pair. The butch will be a bisexual British Indian fatshionista from a working-class background, raised by her older brothers after their parents' untimely death, and the femme will be a geeky Black schoolteacher who moonlights as a BNF and mixes friendly eccentricity with a tendency to swear like a sailor in defiance of her estranged, highly conservative parents. Together, they play tabletop games and make long lists of things they want to do and places they want to go, the latter of which remains largely unfulfilled due to their financial situation -- until the Doctor comes into the picture. At first they treat it almost like the honeymoon they'd dreamed of but never had (or thought they could have), but due to some Dramatic Danger and Tragedy-type events, they become more hesitant. The butch finds TARDIS-travel exhilarating and alien landscapes sometimes painfully beautiful, but she fears for her and her lover's safety, and at the same time
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...yeah, that throwaway at the end was INFURIATING. It was obviously chucked in as a "woo, lookit us being all liberal and shite" gag, and was just...graaaaaaar.
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Final "how many times they saved an entire species" count: 2.
Final "how many individuals saved" count: [OVERFLOW ERROR]
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But...why couldn't they go off with Jenny to begin with, on her own show, hmmmm??? Why did they need the Doctor, paltry male that he is, at all?
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Hey, did you notice how the only person of colour in the episode was constantly ignored or undermined? He was like Worf on TNG.
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