There’s a sadistic streak in me that truly delights when a sci-fi show shows humanity to be the real monsters - delicious & accurate.

I have to admit, it seemed like the kind of thing for which the Doctor would have reprimanded Ryan, similar to how she got upset when that guy kicked the evil alien off of the crane in the season premiere.

It was good casting. I was wondering the same thing during the episode.

I didn’t think that Rosa Parks’s husband as portrayed in the episode was white.

Which means they cast him well. The lighting was weird in that scene and I thought on his first introduction he was white as well, but later shots made it pretty clear he was black, but very light skinned.

White people of Montgomery AL are the scariest villains I’ve yet seen on “Doctor Who”.

I felt more anxiety regarding danger to the companions than in any previous episode. 

Took me a couple of minutes to figure that Graham was the person she was meant to give the seat up for.

I found a web page about him that says he was black:

i haven’t seen this episode yet, but having just read a book about rosa parks, her husband was a very light-skinned Black man -- light enough that he could have been mistaken for white, according to this book.

Now I just want to know if it’s true that Rosa Parks’ husband was a white man or not?

I dunno, the whole thing was devoid of any nuance or subtlety. It all felt like “A Very Special Episode.” Drunk History told a much more illuminating story of Rosa Parks than this did.

My favorite part of the episode was a throwaway moment of levity. Where The Doctor is messing with Graham about possibly being Banksy.

I agree with everything you say about the presentation, which was great, but disagree vehemently about how they depicted the history and what that means for time travel. As you say, but which the show doesn’t really acknowledge except by saying Parks was an activist, her action was planned. No doubt she was just…

What is it about the fans that demand that the reviewer mirror their own opinion?

And yet, he already made a call back to original who with Venusian Akido, which the Third Doctor used all the time.

A nice touch that too many shows miss: During that final long shot, the sound of the gunshot followed the muzzle flash by just a short amount of time, which is exactly what you’d see & hear from that distance.  To me, it made the scene all that more realistic.

Yup, devastatingly beautiful backdrop and devastatingly sad scene. Cruel also that Werner’s last conversation with his wife had to end badly with him yelling at her. 

Thanks for articulating almost everything that I am too lazy to think.

Thanks for articulating almost everything that I am too lazy to read.