Goss only had one goal while writing this probably. He wanted to address the censorship of history, and making the past come over as better than it was. And while it’s incredibly ‘in-your-face’, and done in the least subtle way I can imagine, I can’t say he didn’t succeed.

What James very smartly does here is play the reversed sexism for laughs. It’s first to be assumed to be another piece of satire, until the listener starts to realize when Benny comments on some things that there’s something else at play. Really cool use of the tone of the boxset to ‘mislead’ the listener.

This is something else of course, but I guess you can say that a similar topic has been handled in Jubilee. Though Jubilee is about not taking fascism seriously and commercializing on it. But one of the major things this story reminds me of is Disney censoring old problematic works, forbidding them from being seen. Wanting to forget they have ever happened to make their history look ‘clean’, which in the end is also for commercial reasons. Both can have parallels drawn to them about altering history because of greed (if you take the altering history part literally I’m sure there’s a ‘cracking’ story in that concept). Instead of taking responsibility and learning from past mistakes, shying away from it, and so risking making the mistake again. This part doesn’t go anywhere, by the way, sorry. Even more, it ends here.

It’s a relatively simple concept in the end, but it’s executed very well, and I do think it’s an important enough message, so I’m seeing through the heavy handedness. Works very well with Bernice too, her being an archeologist, and does nice things for her character. The little part where it’s honestly talking about how difficult it is for woman is nice as well.