![]() “Good girl!” says the Doctor, unharmed and actually quite delighted. “They’ll be here forever.” Then she shoots him. “If you help the monks then nothing will ever stop them,” says Bill in desperation, now holding the Doctor at gunpoint. In fact, he seems to turn on Bill entirely. Reunited with Nardole, Bill sets out on a rescue mission, but the Doctor doesn’t appear to need rescuing at all. Pearl Mackie gets one of her strongest dramatic showcases to date when her attempt to rescue the Doctor from the monks doesn’t go as planned. ![]() The more important question is why the Doctor would be helping them now after fighting so hard in last week’s episode to stop humanity from giving in to their demands.ĭiscuss ‘Doctor Who’ with Hollywood insiders in our notorious forums The lie of the land is any that justifies the abuse of power. Of course, fake news is a tactic as old as tyranny. They shepherded humanity through its formative years, gently guiding and encouraging … They have been instrumental in all the advances of culture and technology” - those are the words of the Doctor himself, who seems to have allied with the monks by spreading their propaganda across the airwaves. “The Monks have been with us from the beginning. Here’s another modern political parallel: the lie that gives the episode its title, that the monks have been benevolent dictators for all of human history, amounts to the most successful fake-news campaign in human history - take that, Russia! Pearl Mackie (‘Doctor Who’) on the fans identifying with the 1st gay companion That’s what the monks do: rule by learned helplessness, undermining any resistance before it even starts. Once we settle into “the way things are,” now matter how wild, outlandish, or downright evil, we lose our power to stop it. In the current political climate, especially in the United States, a common rallying cry has been to resist the normalization of the abnormal. So why the deception? As Nardole ( Matt Lucas) explains, “However bad a situation is, if people think that’s how it’s always been, they put up with it. They insert themselves into past historical events to establish themselves in the minds of the human race as the heroes of mankind. They don’t rule by fear or by threat, they rule by love, and to do so requires them to make history - literally. After Bill gave the monks her consent in last week’s episode they took over the world, but they’re benevolent rulers - sort of. It’s hard to miss the modern political undertones of this week’s storyline.
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