Without going into too much extraneous detail, we see the Doctor watch completely dispassionately as an innocent young child is eaten by a monster; in fact, he actually feels sorry for the monster (sound familiar?) Later in the episode he works himself up into such a rage that he actually punches a man on the nose. What caused this outrage that the murder of an innocent child could not? The man said some racist comments to his friend.
So, not to trivialise racism - which is a bad thing - we have a show explicitly telling us that the murder of children by a monster is pitiable (for the monster,) but mean words are so dangerous that they're worth of losing your mind over.
Later on in that same episode, The Doctor reads the children a story about a young boy who is mutilated by a man with a large pair of scissors, as 'entertainment'. (But for whom, I wonder?)
The underlying themes in this episode are chilling.
Submitted May 01, 2017 at 08:48PM by EliCaaash http://ift.tt/2pQVc5w