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title: "Doctor Who S01E27-30: Doctor Who goes to Mexico"
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- drwho
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A bunch of white people pretend to be Aztecs, and explore their moral
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perspectives on human sacrifice.
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To its credit, there is at least lip service to the notion that
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this is some other culture and maybe you can't impose your current moral
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structure over it.
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## S01E27: The Temple of Evil
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Oh goodie. Barbara's gone and gotten herself in trouble again.
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I'm not sure I can stomach this one.
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Yay, let's focus on human sacrifice. And let's frame it as summoning rain,
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because I'm sure that was the beginning and end of the philosophy behind it.
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LOL the sword fight.
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Haha, Susan's screaming desecrated an Aztec temple.
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## S01E28: The Warriors of Death
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Damn, the Doctor's pissed.
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Holy crap, the Vulcan Nerve Pinch! 2 years before it showed up in Star Trek!
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More 1960s dudes wrasslin'. But there's a twist, he got scratched.
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## S01E29: The Bride of Sacrifice
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Aha, the old Saffron maneuver, eh? Looks like the Doctor's gettin' hitched!
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The gang has a moral dilemma about altering the culture of the Aztecs by
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Barbara abusing her god status to outlaw human sacrifice. The Doctor gets
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married or engaged or something. Susan finally expresses an emotion other
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than terror:
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I'm back to being uncomfortable with the cultural framing here. I mean,
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maybe this is useful for viewing 1960s British culture, but that's still
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too recent for me to not feel squicky about it. The only reason I didn't
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skip this entire story is because Wikipedia said it was one of the best
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stories of the entire franchise.
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## S01E30: The Day of Darkness
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They found a tunnel or something, to get back into the burial chamber
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containing the Tardis. Susan is going to get married or sacrificed or
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something. Ian does the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on a white guy dressed as a
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brown guy, saving the white lady. They find a way to escape, and
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somebody gets sacrificed, and then Barbara gets to watch Susan get
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sacrificed or something, I'm not sure.
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Oh, more 1960s dudes fighting. I skipped it. I presume the British
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high school teacher beats the Aztec warrior who's been training his
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entire life.
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Barbara has some sort of moral quandry about her inability to change
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the past, which I guess was the point of the story. I sure hope
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they don't wind up on earth again in the next story.
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