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   The True Doctor to All   
   The War Between the Land and the Sea E01   
   08 Dec 25 07:35:37   
   
   From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
      
   I was considering posting two separate reviews but since the first two   
   episodes of TWBLS were shown back-to-back and the writing and directing   
   is the most horrendous, amateurish, childish, and insulting I have ever   
   seen, and consists of nothing more than a thin veil for a woke lecture   
   filled with unsubstantiated lies and propaganda I'm going to review them   
   both together.   
      
   I'm will review this story written by Pete McTighe and created by Russel   
   T Davies in comparison to Interstellar by Christopher Nolan since both   
   contain an environmentalist message.   
      
   While one is well written and the environmentalist message, which easily   
   falls apart on careful consideration, is simply there to set up a   
   situation where the human race needs to colonise extra terrestrial   
   planets in order to survive, ushered on by a seemingly alien but in   
   actuality Earth originating intelligence, serves the science fiction   
   which always takes precedence and does not seek to be woke or lecture   
   the audience, the other is pure degenerate woke lecturing spreading   
   downright lies, mistruths, and misinformation, using science fiction as   
   as a means to capture an audience and indoctrinate them with a one sided   
   false narrative which overwhelms everting, resulting in the most   
   appalling, infantile, and totally horrendous and insulting writing I   
   have ever witnessed by a clueless and talentless soap opera hack and   
   political play-write who is incapable of writing any better then an   
   undedicated infant.   
      
   It all tarts off with a humanoid fish lizard being caught up in a   
   fishing trawler’s nets in the Mediterranean and as soon as the fishermen   
   see it they shoot it dead. Why are these fishermen carrying guns on a   
   fishing boat in the middle of the Med? Why have they got them already   
   pointing at the fish lizard the moment the nets are pulled up? It's as   
   if they were deliberately hunting the fish lizard to begin with. Why   
   isn't this explained? Why have the fishermen caught the fish lizard? Is   
   it by accident or design? The writing is absolute shit from the very   
   beginning as is the directing.   
      
   The shooting of this fish lizard and then another causes other fish   
   lizards to retaliate by killing two humans in revenge. Why? We still   
   don't know if the fish lizards were first hunted down and then killed or   
   not. The writing is total garbage. More about garbage later.   
      
   Then the fish lizards all decide to reveal themselves to mankind because   
   apparently as we learn later two of their hatchlings have been killed by   
   pollution in the oceans. Like this is only supposed to have only ever   
   happened now and not before? Humanity went by for hundreds of thousands   
   of years, decades, centuries polluting the seas and oceans and no fish   
   lizards ever died as a result of it until now? The writing is absolute   
   excrement, just like the plot. Even the fish lizards complain about the   
   excrement in the seas. What about their excrement? Don't fish shit in   
   the water as they swim? Total hypocrisy.   
      
   Oh, did I mention that these fish lizards can also fluidly change gender   
   as they choose? I think I predicted they would months ago.   
      
   So the fish lizards want to communicate with mankind and we are   
   subjected to 20 minutes of insulting padding showing attempts at   
   translating their language or squeals, and newscasts documenting their   
   appearances. This is totally unnecessary exposition which tells us   
   nothing about the non-existent plot or motivations of the fish lizards   
   or humans.   
      
   An imbecilic, socially inept effeminate moron played played by the gay   
   actor Russell Tovey is chosen by accident to be the ambassador for mankind.   
      
   The degenerate hypocrite Russell T Davies told everyone that only gay   
   actors were suitable for playing the roles of gay characters, so why has   
   an unconvincing gay actor playing what would appear to be a heterosexual   
   character been inflicted on the audience?   
      
   After he is activated by UNIT, Tovey is shown being woken up by what   
   appears to be an obese mixed race male character who at first I believed   
   to be his male lover. Then he drives off with this character who is   
   about the same height as him to this black woman's house, and I start to   
   question if this character is actually male when she starts embracing   
   the other black woman. What the fuck is going on? Are they lesbians?   
   Bisexual? A manage a trois?   
      
   Oh, so she's supposed to be his daughter? Why the fuck doesn't she even   
   look like him? I thought he was gay. He acts and behaves like he's gay.   
   Haven't the producers and director got a clue how to cast people in   
   appropriate roles so they look convincing?   
      
   Now we come to Interstellar. Interstellar was about the main   
   protagonist's relationship with his daughter. Everything was written   
   around that relationship and from the characterisation of the daughter   
   and the main protagonist’s son and their grandfather and their   
   relationships with each other you could predict everything that followed   
   in the plot, every motivation for why they did what they did and why   
   they did it and even what they ending would be, in the first 5 minutes.   
   Those relationships were embedded into the plot in order to serve and   
   evolve the plot and were all necessary. In contrast there is no plot   
   development, characterisation or character development at all concerning   
   Tovey's daughter or apparently ex-wife. They serve no purpose whatsoever   
   in evolving the story, because there is no story. They're degenerate   
   soap opera filler created to waste time by a clueless infantile writer   
   who doesn't understand the basics of writing or story telling. Why have   
   them there at all, unless it's the woke political messaging to show a   
   mixed race relationship? They serve no purpose at all.   
      
   The degenerate clueless writer assumes everyone already knows who the   
   Sea Devils are and who the Doctor is, which is another example of his   
   ineptitude and bad writing. The Doctor is totally irrelevant to this   
   story so why waste time talking about him instead of developing the   
   characters in this specific story in a meaningful manner as in   
   Interstellar?   
      
   Why would the audience know the whole backstory of the Sea Devils? Show   
   not tell. The writer and director don't have a clue. Nothing is shown   
   from the Sea Devils stand point. Why are they accepted by the humans as   
   being superior when they have not demonstrated that on screen? Why   
   aren't the being nuked as soon as they appear?   
      
   In one scene we are shown two humans sucked into the sand by the Sea   
   Devils. In the next scene a military General with an American accent   
   tries looking for them and calling them on the radio wondering where   
   they are for minutes on end. The audience already knows they've been   
      
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