#jodie winning the most prime ministers during her doctor years award is like. super funny.

[ssaalexblake]

I rather liked you comparing Jo Patterson to Liz Truss, even though she was meant as a caricature of the Maybot she now looks kind of like the Iceberg Lady! Another amusing note, the last ep had the villains trying to do a fracking plot, just around the time there was a fracking vote in the House that was the lettuce that broke the camel's back for the Truss Ministry! I think it was more alluding to The Dalek Invasion of Earth but still! Also, villains associated with Russia!

I honestly thought they had bad luck with the May joke, tbh? Like, when they made the episode it was a culturally obvious poke at her, but by the time the episode aired on Jan 1st 2021 it had been goddamn boris for a fair amount of time, and not only was it boris, it was boris Through Covid, which kind of made any joke about her fall a bit flat. I mean, it was still obvious who they were making a dig at, but by that point it had lost pretty much all of its Umph for all the worst reasons.

So I choose to repurpose it for Truss. For funsies.

They did, however, hit coincidental gold with the fracking thing I guess so it wasn't all losses. It was definitely a dalek invasion of earth reference, but i'd bet they were Thrilled when they realised how well that'd line up with what they'd filmed for the episode.

I guess they win some they lose some.

But 'the master was the prime minister' is the best politics joke in the show because it has infinite shelf life. At literally any point somebody can drop that the master was prime minister and the companion can go 'oh is That why *insert random actual real life prime minister here* was so evil???' and you can do it over and over and over with whoever you want. I mean, they'd never namedrop a real prime minister on the show whose ass they weren't trying to climb up at the time, but i can dream.

... Though i have to admit, the joke rtd made in the doctor who lockdown stories book that heavily implied that boris was part of the nestine consciousness after being infected back in 2005 had me laughing for weeks. But like, he probably wrote that within a month of publishing so he just benefitted from having up to date news. Was still funny though.