The really exciting news is that Luther returns later this year. "It's good to be back in London, back in the coat," Idris Elba tweeted in January. As an added bonus Alice will be there too! Let’s be honest we needed a bit of good news after the way BBC’s “prestige” drama Bodyguard bombed. [ii] Yep watching terrible television is what happens when you have too much time on your hands because you don’t have to clean the dungeon with a toothbrush.
Some mistresses care even more and always allow their slaves time off to watch Doctor Who, even if the slave is such a fool that he predicted Thirteen would be male – again. Mea Culpa (and big smile for being wrong). Perhaps mistress works at the BBC because the Beeb advises viewers to “relax! Take the afternoon off. You don't have to vacuum behind the sofa.”
As a guy who is way too serious most of the time, I enjoy letting of steam writing about Doctor Who and femdom. Cause it matters. Despite the fact that the TV show about a travelling Timelord is mostly entertainment, it often touches on real world issues. Once upon a time there were some evil monks from outer space, who used a virtual simulation of life on Earth in order to plan an invasion. During the three episodes of their veni, vidi, fuge there was a strong hint of a totalitarian society created by the monks that reminded people of Nazi Germany.
Oxygen, the fifth episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who sees Twelve, Bill and Nardole trapped aboard a spaceship. Oxygen, rather important in outer space, is limited and you gotta pay to play, sorry, to keep on breathing. No money, no oxygen, such are the rules of intergalactic capitalism. No exceptions, compliance to Mammon has to be enforced at any cost. Exceptions also break the business model. Critics loved the episode for its soaring critique of capitalism over humanity at any price.
Usually it is much harder to pinpoint where the show is directing its criticism at. One of the most underrated characters on Doctor Who are a race called the Ood. These aliens are a humanoid species with two brains, the hindbrain usually held in their hands. They don’t have vocal cords so they communicate using telepathy. The Ood are gentle creatures whose passive telepathy allows them to be controlled by others. Guess it’s progress of some kind, but some two millennia from now humans no longer enslave each other, either outright or subtle. That unenviable fate has shifted to the Ood, who are naturally servile – “they” say – and offer themselves for servitude. Check, double check and triple check. Even if the outcome is yes, yes and yes, don’t believe it. Everybody wants to be free.
Like all humanoids it takes him a lot of time to realize the Ood’s so-called submissive nature is nothing but a pretext for involuntarily enslavement by others. History repeats itself in galaxies far and near, wherever, whenever. Unfortunately for the Ood, time for the Galifrean wanderer passes much more slowly than it does for others. By the time the Doctor finally does the right thing, he’s regenerated twice. Nobody knows how much time passes between two cycles. Sorry dear Ood.
Everybody assumes the Ood are happiest being unfree, that is until they are set free that is. It makes you wonder how free men are in their choice to be submissive. After all your kink is part of who you are. That’ll never change. At least the average slave can walk away from his kink – at a price of course – but what about the men who truly believe in the superiority [iii] of women? How free are we anyway?
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i Not a fan of Clara Oswald but if she says “eleven is the best” I can only agree.
ii Bodyguard bombed for many reason. For one, too much bombs, literally. The final episode wrapped up things Scooby Doo style, a big disappointment.
The worst thing, however is the glorification of stalkers. The "hero" continually stalks his ex only to win her back in the end. Is that really the message the BBC wants to convey?
iii One of the reasons I write about the abuse that is all too common in the BDSM community
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