Residents of Finetime, allow me to put a spin on some Kim Kardashian advice : Get your ass up and walk. It seems like nobody wants to walk these days! Look, the Doctor and Ruby haven’t had the best track record with watching their step this season. Ruby temporarily changed species when she stepped on a butterfly; the Doctor was seconds away from blowing up a planet when he stepped on a land mine and pretty much completely disappeared from an episode when he stepped into a fairy circle.
Still, they’re both doing a lot better than this week’s main character, Lindy Pepper-Bean, who struggles to even move in a straight line without instructions from her Dot, a floating device that projects video feeds of friends in a Bubble around her head. But when we meet Lindy, people are increasingly going offline and not coming back ..
. ah, so this must be the Black Mirror -esque adventure that we’ve been hearing about. When we’re first introduced to Lindy, she seems harmless enough.
Mostly, she’s a big fan of Ricky September, whose profile reads: “Subscribers: Everyone, Hobbies: You.” He dances, lip syncs, and just generally seems like someone the internet would declare its white boy of the month . Lindy’s enjoying Ricky’s latest video when the Doctor hacks into the system to try to tell her that monsters are coming for her.
She simply blocks him and moves on with her day. Thanks to the Bubble, she’s also oblivious when a body is dragged away just inches from her feet..
