That’s great! Since most of the people I play with are scattered geographically we play with the app and I actually learned via the app before getting a chance to play it on the table. It’s definitely a game where a lot of thought has been put into the tutorials

“Britannia rules the waves…”

Ace and the 7th Doctor were the first Doctor Who I saw - her beating up a Dalek with a baseball bat is my favourite companion moment ever from all of Who!

Reminded me of this Big Train sketch

I work in healthcare. Never sounds this much fun, sorry, disgraceful.

It’s the b-plot from what I recall, it’s not the main focus of the episode.

It was written long before his TERF days and so it’s not exactly hateful, just ignorant and it’s comparable to a lot of other ways comedy treated trans characters from the era - The League Of Gentleman was much, much worse than the IT Crowd imo, and that was a recurring character in every episode.

It’s rather the issue that while Matt Berry has distanced himself from the episode Linehan actually still defends it as pro-trans.

As a slightly different take I’d recommend SS-GB. Technically it’s an alternative history novel whether the Nazis won WWII and conquered the UK… But that’s pretty dystopian in practice, especially when the main character is a policeman.

I don’t know if The Trial counts exactly as a dystopia but it certainly conjures up the paranoia and confusion of being caught up in a beruacratic nightmare like you might find in a police state.

High Rise is a great satire on the class system translated to people moving into the then new high rise blocks in the UK - only the rich can afford the apartments at the top and so on. The first sentence involves the hero having to eat a dog to survive.

A Clockwork Orange has been mentioned already, but it’s easily my favourite. And very different and more brutal than the film, which is also great but more its own thing. Alex is a much nastier piece of work in the book, and the last chapter of the novel isn’t in the film

Trojan Box Sets are great compilations that give an all over taste. Some you may have to search for but I had an excellent one which I might be able to get the Google drive link for later