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   >her, not pad it out with totally useless soap-opera at the   
   >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!   
   >--------------------------------------------------------------   
   >   
   >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   
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