Logline
Far in the future, on a tough, brutal planet, a devastated mining colony has only one survivor. To discover the truth, the Doctor and Belinda must face absolute terror.
Written by: Russell T Davies & Sharma Angel Walfall
Directed by: Amanda Brotchie
I’ll definitely have to rewatch with the knowledge that it being a, uh, “sequel” to Midnight has no impact outside the emotional manipulation.
What I did like a lot was the BSL representation and the Tardis letting her humans make an effort to understand for once.
Is it realistic at all to require medical personnel to learn (at least some basic vocab in) the local sign language? You’d probably need bigger budgets which is an issue everywhere so anyone know what Lombardians are doing differently with their health care?
In today’s society, probably not - in “Unleashed”, Rose Ayling-Ellis says it takes the average person about seven years to become fluent. But it’s a good dream to have, and if people started learning early enough in life, and valued it enough…
As for the Lombardians, maybe they have some improved sci-fi educational techniques. But at the same time, they clearly don’t have the same expectations of their soldiers…
Maybe those subtitle projector thingies are considered a better solution but they’re expensive and so they reserve them for the military? And everybody else learns sign language because it’s cheaper? That doesn’t sound right - always a good idea to go deep into speculative territory about society in soft science fiction 😅
Oh yeah, Unleashed, thanks for the reminder :D