Post by Deleted on May 11, 2023 10:16:08 GMT
Pretty much every episode from seasons 24-26 can be seen as a meta-commentary on the state of the show and the British institute at large. I wonder if they thought it through, or whether it just emerged naturally? Paradise Towers, Delta and the Bannermen, the Happiness Patrol, and the Greatest Show in the Galaxy are the most obvious in their portrayals of crumbling institutions, though it isn't any less potent in the other stories, even down to the neo-Nazis and the statue stuff in Silver Nemesis, as well as the decline of colonial Britain in Ghost Light. And Remembrance is just divine in its distinctness, becoming almost surreal in its function as the final real arbiter of the show's rooted conflict, embodied dazzlingly in the Dalek civil war. The depth of these seasons compared to the slop that we got served in seasons 16–23 is nothing short of astounding, honestly.
