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|    The True Doctor to solar imbecile    |
|    Re: The War Between the Land and the Sea    |
|    08 Dec 25 16:27:45    |
      From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM              On 08/12/2025 15:17, solar imbecile wrote:       >       > The True Doctor wrote:       >       >>       >> 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       >       > You obviously weren’t paying attention.       >       > Tovey’s character wasn’t woken up by any character but by       > the loud buzzing of his top secret UNIT communicator that       > he keeps hidden in his sock drawer. The he goes and wakes his kid.       > Got that? Tovey is the one who wakes up the kid, not the other       > way round!              What is the purpose of having this kid there in the first place then?              Unlike the girl in Interstellar this stupid kid has absolutely nothing       to do with the story development or the plot.              She isn't even of any use waking up her supposed father. Supposed       because she looks nothing like him.              >       > And they’re obviously not lovers because they sleep in separate rooms!       >              That was not made clear due to the bad directing. They looked like gay       lovers to me.       > Now there is a real plot hole that you missed. Tovey’s character is       > an expert in booking taxis, but he doesn’t even think to call an       > Uber for his kid instead of compromising security by getting the              Why would he want to leave his kid alone and unsupervised with someone       who could be a complete pervert as anyone can drive for Uber because       there's no proper police background checks like you get with proper taxi       firms?              > UNIT car to take them all to his ex-wife! (RTD obviously wanted us       > to see him with his ex in episode one, and couldn’t think of a       > better way to do it.)       >              Because he's a shit writer along with Pete McTighe. All that this       degenerate can come up with is totally irrelevant soap opera drivel.       Compare with Interstellar where all the character relationships drive       the actual plot.              --       The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw              "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it       stands for." --William Shatner              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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