The fact of the matter is, we wouldn't accept this narrative if it was about the Doctor on an Earth colony in the far future.
The Doctor shows up.and, more or less, sides with the establishment, eventually convincing the Zygons that revolution isn't worthwhile and that they should accept their lot in life. A group of Zygon revolutionaries decide that the system was designed against them and begin planning the glorious Zygon uprising, toppling the British military system that keeps them under wraps.
They can't reveal the truth of what they look or act like, or they'll be persecuted by humans in fact, this happens exactly in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. In the Zygon Invasion/Inversion, we see a society that treats Zygons unfairly. Let me say up front that I'm a big fan of this story, and that I think it was worthwhile and that, on the whole, they pulled it off. Not once does he ask to hear the plans or intentions of the workers after the evil corporation is brought down the Doctor just skedaddles and lets them figure everything out.įast forward to series 9's Zygon two-parter. The Doctor shows up, sees the system is unjust and calls for revolution, leading the workers to band together and bring down the unjust system. The people of this colony work under terrible conditions to produce artificial suns and then are taxed by the same system until they die from overwork or suicide. The Sun Makers takes place in the far future on an Earth colony on Pluto. From this point on, I'm going to consider this a philosophical treatise within Doctor Who, referred to as "Miles' Challenge." Doctor Who should be able to deal with these things, and it cannot, because when it reaches that point Doctor Who breaks. It's pretty clear that Lawrence Miles, the author of the book, is using this section to push the idea that Doctor Who should be able to comment on contemporary situations - in Interference, particularly the ethics of the global weapons trade - in a better way than it typically can. Badar challenges the Doctor on his ability to change the status quo of Earth, saying that the Doctor should be able to change things on Earth just as easily as he does for human colonies in space in the far future. Here is a relevant excerpt from Lawrence Miles' novel Interference, in which the Doctor is trapped in a prison cell with a prisoner named Badar somewhere in the Middle East (if I remember correctly, Saudi Arabia).
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