I would give it 5/5, if not for unaddressed racism
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“First and foremost: in quality of recording and effects/editing, writing, character arks, story line and almost every single aspect of this show, it’s 10/10, an amazing listen I would recommend to any person, if it were not for one disgusting and frankly irresponsible racist treatment of a character by the the main character, Doug.
The ships doctor, Alexander hilbert is a the stations doctor and also a scientist. He is an older Russian man, with a somewhat thick accent. While I will not speak for the rest of the show, for the first season he is nothing but patient to the main character, always acting cordially. There is reference to “medical examinations” that are actually torture sessions, but this is mentioned once and never brought up again. Regardless, he is characterised as a cordial person.
The main character however, is frequently, borderline constantly making fun of his accent and nation of origin, often stereotyping him as a “evil Russian scientist sent out to kill us all”
It is constant, in most every scene in which the two interact it is almost painful the amount of xenophobia Doug has towards hilbert.
To those who haven’t watched this show, while I do recommend it, please be aware of this, as I have seen many fans simply not even acknowledge this and even incorporate it into there own beliefs.
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While It is revealed that hilbert after season one was actually doing unethical human experiments it still stands that Doug was belittling him over his country of origin, and not his actions. Another of the characters in the show, Renee minkovski in the later seasons confronts Doug about his incessant mispronunciation of her last name, after having an honest conversation he recognises what he had done, and how it had effected his friend, and stops doing it. However, his other show of xenophobia is simply never addressed, at all. While at this point in the show, Alexander had died and thus could not confront him, minkovski was very much alive, and was definitely witness to his mistreatment, and it is also worth noting that both Alexander and Renee are Eastern European, and it would have fitted very well thematically for her to confront Doug and hilbert as well
(Renee is polish)
So that leaves two options either
A) they chose not to address this as they assumed that addressing what effile had done to Renee would be able to convey his regret or
B) the show creators genuinely didn’t see what was wrong with the way they wrote these characters interacting
If the latter is true, it shows a sad pockmark in what is otherwise an amazing show, but if is the former, then I do not even know what to say”
goosemoade11 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
01/02/23
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