#i’m assuming the overlap with her fans and doctor who fans is large but anyway

[frogyourbog]

doctor who doing a whole anti-capitalist episode, while airing on disney+, after i JUST finished jenny nicholson’s video on the star wars hotel ………i’m thinking thoughts

that video, among other things, discussed how the star cruiser was so disappointing because of disney cutting costs and failing to do the things they usually do in their theme parks that are little more expensive sure but add so much magic (ie. putting easter eggs throughout the park, having animatronic heads or whatever that interact with different things happening around it, not developing their technology and functionality fully before opening, etc)

and i’m thinking particularly about the advertising for the hotel and a comment i saw on the video observing that the ads read so awkward to us as the consumer because they weren’t made to sell the product to consumers, they were made to have flashing lights and fun sounds to please shareholders

and all of that running through my mind while watching doctor who this evening made the exchange between ruby & the doctor that goes vaguely like

“why’s a land mine got lights all around it” “capitalism”

hit SO hard because that’s essentially what the star cruiser did, no? they had fun lights and buttons that made the shareholders think it would make them money but was really only busy work, entertaining for ages 7-11.

and the fact that disney is the name behind both of these things is dramatic irony if i’ve ever seen it

anyway i’m glad doctor who is getting a disney budget but not disney restrictions for this new season because so far it’s fantastic