Antimatter Pod

213. Twentieth Century Thinking (SNW 3.10)

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Noted Doctor Who podcasters Anika and Liz settle in to watch a very bad Steven Moffat pastiche. 

Yes, it's time for the season 3 finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and spoilers, turning into a statue might be preferable to this.

  • It turns out Marie's whole arc has been about becoming tradwife statuary
  • The weird Christian subtext of the season intensifies, not in a good way
  • The racial dynamics of this episode are very, very bad
  • Do we need to dismantle the carceral state for the Vezda? 
  • No more backstory for M'Benga, please, we have enough dog whistle racism
  • Kirk, Spock, barroom mind melds, queerbaiting and the weirdness with La'an
  • You almost have to respect the effort that went into dismantling Marie as a character before fridging her
  • Speaking of dismantling characters: remember when we didn't hate La'an? When she was, in fact, one of our faves?
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