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   The Doctor to solar.penguin@gmail.com   
   Re: The War Between the Land and the Sea   
   16 Dec 25 05:23:56   
   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10hq3ec$28hlp$1@dont-email.me>,   
   solar penguin   wrote:   
   >   
   >The True loon looked on wrongly:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I'm will review this story written by Pete McTighe and devised by Russel   
   >> T Davies in comparison to The Abyss directed by James Cameron   
   >   
   >It’s a BBC Sunday evening drama. You would be better off   
   >comparing it to Prisoner 951 or Riot Women etc.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> He should have been crushed by the water pressure around him unless he   
   >> was breathing liquid instead of air as seen in The Abbys, and if not by   
   >> that by the bends when resurfacing at the speed he was accelerating   
   >> upwards at, if the writers had the faintest clue.   
   >   
   >IIRC the bends is caused by rapid change in pressure. It   
   >was already established that the big bubble they were all in   
   >was at surface pressure. As long as Salt’s hydrostatic water-bending   
   >kiss maintained that pressure, there was very little risk of   
   >the bends.   
   >   
   >The real question is why didn’t all the other Homo Aqua escape   
   >that way? (I can understand why they might not want to rescue   
   >the remaining humans though.)   
   >   
   >>   
   >> After this the fish lizard and Tovey are retrieved by UNIT and the fish   
   >> lizard incarcerated.   
   >>   
   >> During it's incarceration a deep fake video is posted of the fish lizard   
   >> threatening humanity.   
   >>   
   >> Next a Greek mercenary attempts to assassinate Kate Stewart   
   >> whose gay toyboy boyfriend no one cares about is killed   
   >   
   >Gay? Was he using her as a beard? If so, why was the relationship   
   >secret?   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Is this why the files were stolen from UNIT and given to the crooked   
   >> far-right businessman in the first two episodes or is is that to do with   
   >> something else?   
   >   
   >What files? It was Homo Aqua tissue samples that were stolen   
   >and given to the businessman.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> At this point I totally lost the plot. BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ONE!   
   >   
   >And yet you can’t even remember the very few plot points that   
   >there were.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Then the British PM, for no reason, is seen ordering the murder of some   
   >> businessman who is a former friend of his connected with the   
   >> assassination attempt on Kate, in order to save his bacon because of his   
   >> connection with him, or something.   
   >   
   >I think that might’ve been the same businessman mentioned above.   
   >   
   >I could be wrong but it looked as though the evil generals tricked   
   >the PM into killing him because now he’d given them the tissue   
   >samples he had outlived his usefulness. They told the PM that   
   >he was also working for another rival warmongering conspiracy   
   >that they blamed for the assassination attempt and the bomb.   
   >But we have seen any evidence that this other conspiracy even   
   >exists, so they were probably lying.   
   >   
   >But yes, you’re right. This sequence was very confusing. Hopefully   
   > it will be cleared up next episode when UNIT get round to   
   >investigating the murder.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> The fish lizard is to be taken to be experimented on or dissected to   
   >> create a sonic weapon or something to use against her species, but Tovey   
   >> rescues her by commandeering and then hijacking the truck her cage is   
   >> loaded onto and driving it backwards into the Thames, and after Tovey   
   >> jumps in after her they both escape together, using her magic powers,   
   >> another kiss, or something.   
   >   
   >How did Barclay know that driving backwards then braking would   
   >cause the chains to come undone? And the tank door to open?   
   >   
   >He would’ve looked very silly if it hadn’t worked!   
   >   
   >>   
   >> He tells his ex-wife to drive the car to Westminster Bridge where he   
   >> will be waiting for her,   
   >   
   >No, it’s the fictional Jubilee Bridge that seems to be upstream from   
   >Westminster, somewhere between the Charing Cross railway bridge   
   >and Waterloo Bridge.   
   >   
   >Talking of fictional geography, the building where the talks take   
   >place seems to be on the real-life site of Lambeth Palace, the   
   >official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. So   
   >where does he live in the Whoniverse? (That’s assuming it   
   >even has an Archbishop of Canterbury in the first place!)   
   >   
      
   Even SP is unimpressed.   
      
   >--   
   >solar penguin   
      
      
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