Rosa

A historical episode that isn't historicaly acturate, I'm not getting into that Google Rosa and read about it.

The fam have to stop a space racist from changing history by being part of the predudice against minorities.

The doctor's banksy or something, Graham and Ryan have some funny jokes, that's just how Graham is.

I see some people have high regard for this episode because of the subject matter it tackles, and I can appreciate trying to tell this story as it's an important subject, but the way they did it was just incredibly hamfisted.

This feels like it called for a more grounded episode based in history, but the whole plot with the time travelling racist was strange, and in the importance the story itself places on him stopping this particular bus boycott, it feels like they discredit and have a fundamental misunderstanding of the civil rights movement at large.

Overall, I can see why some people feel that this episode was portraying something that needed to be portrayed, but the actual conflict and content of the episode kind of did it a disservice in my opinion. I think there are many important stories and figures from the civil rights movement the show could delve into with some more tact, should they decide to again in the future.

I've come around to Rosa more and more over time.  At first I was a bit jaded by the larger energy of the Chibnall era and the way this feels like it is told from Graham's perspective more than anyone.  The time travelling Nazi is also extremely weird for a choice and it feels like this story is just begging to be a pure historical instead.

Yet Rosa remains a pretty powerful piece of fiction.  Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall do a pretty good job at telling a family-oriented story about Jim Crow-era America without shying away from the horrors of that time.  I think its a powerful and important thing for the show to explore and definitely appreciate this as a rare moment of greatness that was lacking all too often in the Chibnall era.

went into this one knowing its kind of a controversial episode, which i can see how it is. i think it does work well as being educational to younger viewers who dont know a lot about the civil rights movement but also like it does fall flat on that as well. for instance i think the most important aspect of rosa parks is that after she got taken off the bus she led boycotts which was a lot of the work she had to put in to make any sort of change. but this episode focuses more on the name of a bus driver than even once mentioning that important detail, even though they want to hammer in that she made a change? also like i understand they were going for "safe" choices for this but i think malcolm x was as important to civil rights as rosa parks and martin luther king so i have to say im disappointed with no mention of him here but i also understand why he wouldnt get one.

another nitpick but just like the woman who fell to earth this one had a ton of mcu-like dialogue and just kind of felt put together in a really weird way that i really dont know how to explain in words. wasnt the worst episode ever but it couldve been done better, i still think it can be an exciting adventure to watch for young viewers (thinking 10 and under tbh lol) to get them interested in this bit of history