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   The Doctor to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
   Re: The War Between the Land and the Sea   
   08 Dec 25 07:50:10   
   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10h5v49$te$1@dont-email.me>,   
   The True Doctor   wrote:   
   >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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