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LoglineFar in the future, on a tough, brutal planet, a devastated mining colony has only one survivor. To discover the truth, the Doctor and Belinda must face absolute terror.

Written by: Russell T Davies & Sharma Angel Walfall

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In today's society, probably not - in "Unleashed", Rose Ayling-Ellis says it takes the average person about seven years to become fluent. But it's a good dream to have, and if people started learning early enough in life, and valued it enough...

As for the Lombardians, maybe they have some improved sci-fi educational techniques. But at the same time, they clearly don't have the same expectations of their soldiers...

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe those subtitle projector thingies are considered a better solution but they're expensive and so they reserve them for the military? And everybody else learns sign language because it's cheaper? That doesn't sound right - always a good idea to go deep into speculative territory about society in soft science fiction ๐Ÿ˜…

Oh yeah, Unleashed, thanks for the reminder :D