There's not a lot of shows that could segue from skullfucking polar bears.

[dolari]

"Sugar?"

"Ah. A decision. Would it make any difference?"

"It would make your tea sweet."

"Yes, but beyond the confines of my taste buds, would it make any difference?"

"Not really."

"But..."

"Yeah?"

"What if I could control people's taste buds? What if I decided that no one would take sugar? That'd make a difference, to those who sell the sugar, and those who cut the cane."

"My father, he was a cane cutter!"

"Exactly. Now if no one had used sugar, your father wouldn't have been a cane cutter."

"If this sugar thing had never started, my great-grandfather wouldn't have been kidnapped, chained up and sold in Kingston in the first place! I'd be a African!"

"See? Every great decision creates ripples...like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences."

"Life's like that...best thing is just to get on with it."

Comments

[mikeyarrum.livejournal.com]

An awesome episode. And then there were Daleks.

[makkabee.livejournal.com]

A great scene. Of course if it hadn't been sugar, it would have been indigo or cotton or something else -- sugar supplanted tobacco in many Caribbean islands in the 17th century, for instance.

But yeah, I liked "Remembrance of the Daleks." McCoy could be an effective Doctor when they let him be serious, and every season of his was an improvement over the one before. Pity the market was so stacked against the show by then, not to mention the BBC brass hating it.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Next special, Waters of Mars, is on locally this Sunday.