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beginning which tells you absolutely nothing about the
characters or the plot. People can figure out that the man is
protecting the statue by showing him doing it, not telling us he
has to protect something and not telling us what. People can
also figure out that his son is entrusted with the same task by
showing him come to his father's aid.
Why are these and all the other historical Chinese people not
speaking with Chinese accent so as to establish the fact that
they are speaking Chinese and not English? Does Chibnall not
understand the basics of dramatic presentation? No, of course he
doesn't. He's a useless soap-opera hack.
So, this Chinese women, who's supposed to be some famous female
pirate that no one has ever heard of, in order for the racist
and sexist bigot Chris Chibnall to virtue signal, is looking
from some long lost treasure from some pirate ship in order to
ransom back her crew.
Not once are we ever shown this crew, not once are we shown how
the crew got captured, not once are we shown that the crew
consisted of two of the pirate woman's infant children, or why
they were on a pirate ship to begin with, let alone who the
absentee father was, and not once is it explained how she ended
up looking for this treasure inside the giant statue of a Sea
Devil, or how she found it in the first place which would have
made for a far more interesting story.
So, this British Chinese women hacks away at this statue and by
magic releases a Sea Devil who has been encased within it for
200 years, and by magic it summons a pirate ship from the sea,
complete with a crew of Sea Devils.
What is Chibnall trying to do? Copy Pirates of the Caribbean?
Then Whittaker turns up with the Simpleton and the Wooden Plank
that form her crew, who are going to a fancy dress party on the
beach and have turned up in the wrong time.
Whittaker can't act to save her career and jumps about like a
baboon waving her sonic dildo around everywhere she goes while
bumping into the Sea Devil who is killing everyone around him
except her. Why not her too? The Simpleton wanders off to find
the pirate woman and the Chinese man's son, and the Wooden Plank
thinks she has feelings for Whittaker, none of which has
anything to do with the plot.
Whittaker jumps back in time with the Plank to establish that
some other Chinese pirate, with an upper class English accent,
is in league with the Sea Devils. No explanation for how he
first discovered them or why he was working with them is given,
other than him stating that he colluded them so as to betray
them. Why?
Then Whittaker and the Plank materialize under water to search
for the wreckage of the pirate's ship which they saw sinking a
couple of hundred years earlier, but it's not there and a giant
sea monster breaks it's way out of the bottom of the sea and
swallows up the TARDIS.
After this Whittaker and the plank find themselves inside the
Sea Devils' lair and start wandering around and pressing buttons
and moving leavers with impunity as the Sea Devils which had
massacred an entire English speaking Chinese village do nothing
to stop them. Why haven't they at least been arrested and put
behind bars?
Whittaker then tells the Plank that she would rather be with her
than anyone else, and tells her how great she is. WHY? The
wooden plank has done nothing and demonstrated no virtues do
deserve such accolades. What the hell happened to the 9th and
10th Doctor's feelings for Rose? Then Whittaker tells the Wooden
Plank that she had a wife--who's she talking about, River Song
or someone else?--and she can't enter into relationships. If
that's the case then why did she have a wife and what about
Rose? Contradictions, contradictions, and forced soap opera
garbage as there's never been any credible hint that either the
Plank or Whittaker have any kind of non-platonic feelings for
each other.
The Simpleton and his English speaking Chinese entourage now
arrive on the scene and the Sea Devil pirate ship rises from out
of the sea to meet them.
Whittaker points to the Sea Devils that they are supposed to be
a peaceful race.
You couldn't make a more racist statement than that if you tried
Chibnall!
There's always good and bad people among every race or
nationality. Their individual behaviour is not determined by
their race or their historical culture. It's determined by their
political beliefs and those who happen to lead them at the time.
The Sea Devils tell Whittaker they are looking for some kind of
gem stone with magical powers in order to use it change the
climate and make the sea engulf the land, and it happens to be
around the Chinese boy's neck and we're told, he's the decedent
of another pirate who escaped from the male pirate's ship, by
this male pirate who had been frozen in suspended animation by
the Sea Devils and has now been reanimated. Again this would
have been a better story than the one we were actually shown.
The Simpleton then cuts down a dozen Sea Devils with a magic
sword, and Whittaker, the Plank, and the English speaking
Chinese pirates jump from the female pirate's ship to the wreck
of the male pirate's ship and escape in the TARDIS, but not
before the male pirate decides to sacrifice his life for that of
Whittaker, by holding two cables together for long enough for
them to escape before everything blows up as a result of
Whittaker's earlier tampering.
Then the last 10 minutes consists of useless irrelevant soap
opera about feelings and relationships between Whittaker and the
Plank and the Simpleton and the one armed woman who he's not
talked to once in the past year, and yet he has feelings for her
after he's gone off with Whittaker to enjoy himself.
Chibnall doesn't have a clue how to write a story. He's hacking
off scenes from movies he's either seen or heard of before, and
to pad out the episode he's inserting pointless kitchen sink
dialogue occurring between the characters that provides no
development of either the characters or the situations they are
in, because things happen because they have to happen to get
from one hacked scene to the next and not because something the
characters said or did caused these things to happen, as
everything happens by magic and fortunate coincidences where
characters meet up at a specific destination without showing how
they got there or why they needed to be there, at exactly the
right time.
In the final scene Whittaker skims a stone over the sea and
wishes she could be there longer. Chibnall is so devoid of ideas
that he's hacking off Davies' and Tennant's regeneration finale
with Whittaker's days being numbered.
Garbage, pure garbage!
0/10
And now Chibnall is set to destroy the characters of Tegan and
Ace on top of everything else he's already destroyed including,
the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans, the Sea Devils, the
Time Lords, the Master, and, of course, the entire character of
the Doctor!
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From: "tsbr...@gmail.com"
Subject: Re: Legend of the Sea Devils
Date: Sun/Mon 17/18 Apr 2022 12:14:06 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <9ead0d99-64fe-4f66-b781
9b02d4fed598n@googlegroups.com>
S13E08 Spoilers. Also S39E08 Spoilers.
Great moment: The 1533 ship that glows on the bottom, can fly
through the air, and can sink to the bottom of the sea without
being damaged and without letting water on board.
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