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Amazon inadvertedly streamed an upcoming episode of 'Doctor Who'
Fans who tried to watch the latest episode of the show ("Kerblam!") on Amazon the evening of November 21st found themselves watching "The Witchfinders" instead -- an episode that wasn't supposed to air until November 25th. Yes, the time travel jokes pretty much write themselves here. The io9 team notes that Amazon even had the subtitles for "Kerblam!" instead, leading to some unintentionally funny mash-ups of text from the future with the 17th-century past.
In a statement, BBC Studios acknowledged that the future episode had been released "in error" and that it was looking into how this happened. It also apologized if the series had been "spoiled by this mishap." If you're determined to keep plot points a secret until the intended air date, you might want to shield your eyes when checking social networks over the next few days.
The kicker: the episode you were meant to see is a not-so-subtle dig at Amazon, complete with an increasing emphasis on robotic labor and complaints about working conditions.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:37PM (5 children)
It was clearly space-amazon, the twist being that space-amazon wasn't the bad guy (mostly -- it still killed one innocent person), the bad guy was
1) the luddite
2) the society that failed change to cope with a society where not everyone needs to work
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:51PM (4 children)
From the Doctor's lips to your ears: people are the problem. Need more robots.
The Doctor is, as always, out of touch with the universe of working people. And the reason is obvious. She comes from a civilization where nobody ever works. Thirteen continues the aristocratic trend of all her predecessors, despite picking up three poor working class human strays to be her companions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:53PM (1 child)
aka unwashed suckers
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:58PM
Dalek suckers. The Doctor tried to genocide them the very first time he met them. The proletariat have been seeking revenge against the Doctor ever since.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:25PM (1 child)
Except for the part at th end where the boss says they'll hire more people. Didn't hear the Doctor complaining about that.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @09:36PM
Except for the parts throughout where Ryan the contemporary warehouse worker was whining about his crap job the whole time.
Joy of joys! Amazon Kablammo will hire more poor people to do repetitive crap work and pay them peanuts!!
THE LUDDITE VILLAIN WINS!!!
Downer ending. Get it yet?