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Hey, here’s a quick easy breakdown.

Saying “rest in peace” instead of “may their memory be a blessing” about a Jewish person: a bit of an irritant, as it’s Christian normativity in the midst of mourning, but generally taken in the spirit it’s intended.

Accusing Jewish people who explain that we don’t say “rest in peace” of trying to control the narrative or of telling people they’re mourning wrong or generally of acting in bad faith: at bare minimum it’s incredibly insensitive, but it’s really hard not to read it as an antisemitic microaggression as well.

This applies pretty broadly, I think, to many cultural practices. “Be decent to people” is not that high a standard. If you don’t want to question or even consider how your default is Christian and white and that’s invisible to you, that’s your business and it’s not my job to fix it, but not starting an argument about why that shouldn’t even be brought up costs $0.00 and will make you not look like an asshole.

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The average rating for Peter Capaldi’s last season was 5.8 million viewers. No episode that season rated above 6.68 million - and that rating was for the season premiere. That season featured the only two episodes to rate below 5 million viewers EVER since Doctor Who was revived in 2005.

The season before that the average rating was 6.20 million. That was the first season since 2005 not to have a single episode rate over 7 million viewers. Every season before that had an average rating in the 7 millions, except for season 4 in 2008 which averaged 8.42 million. Incidentally, that was David Tennant’s last full season, and the final full season before the Moffatt years.

Whilst the ratings have only been announced for 4 episodes so far, not a single episode of Jodie Whittaker’s first sesason has fallen below 8 million viewers. The average rating so far has been 9.15 million. Its true that it is unlikely the average will stay that high - ratings have technically been dropping week by week. Exactly as happened every season in the past - it is perfectly normal for ratings to fall towards the middle of a season, and rise again for the finale.

A lot of the media will just do anything to discredit this season because they can’t handle the fact the Doctor is female now.

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