A call for peace from Doctor Who (TV series)

[ChicagoRonin]

Strange timing. On November 7, the BBC aired "The Zygon Inversion," an episode of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who.

The episode (second of a two-part story) was a thinly-veiled allegory about contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation, radicalism and terrorism. Extraterrestrials from a destroyed homeworld are living disguised as humans on Earth with permission of our governments. But the younger, earth-born generation has become radicalized, as demanding violent action for the right to live as they choose.

The episode's highlight was this lengthy and impassioned monologue.

The Doctor: Ah. And when this war is over, when -- when you have the homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you're very close to getting what you want. What's it going to be like? Paint me a picture. Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? What'll be holidays? Oh! Will there be music? Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well? Oh, You don't actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming child in history, Bonnie, you don't actually know what you want. So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?

[MohRokTah]

1. The Doctor is the sole survivor of the Time War.

He knows war on a scale that is unimaginable to humans.

[LiberalArkie]

2. K&R Great

[odd_duck]

3. Bring back Romana!!!