The Clockwork Masquerade
London’s Great Exhibition displays a dangerous ideal of perfection.
The opening situation
In 1851, spectacle and invention provide a welcoming surface for an investigation into mechanical order. The Doctor, Raven and MINO confront a project that would make human unpredictability into a defect. The adventure’s emotional questions run alongside its machinery: a duplicate, a possibility and a person are not interchangeable.
Who travels here
The Doctor, Raven and MINO.
A question to carry into the story
Watch how the language of improvement can conceal a demand for obedience. Moments of uncertainty can become acts of resistance.
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