From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10hq7j0$29lr1$1@dont-email.me>,   
   The True Doctor   wrote:   
   >On 15/12/2025 22:51, solar imbecile wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The True Doctor wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >No I wouldn't since neither of them are science fiction and I don't   
   >watch them since I am not the target audience which are women between   
   >the ages of 35 and 44 of very low intelligence and social standing from   
   >the C2, D, and E demographics.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >Blood pressure in the veins and other organs where mitogen and other gas   
   >bubbles form on rapid decompression is not governed by the air pressure   
   >in the lungs, otherwise all that divers would need to do to not to get   
   >the bends is keep breathing pressurised air when rising up, which they   
   >already do and it doesn't stop it.   
   >>   
   >> 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.)   
   >>   
   >   
   >The majority weren't in range of the explosion. The moron just blew   
   >himself up and his colleagues.   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> 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?   
   >   
   >The actor playing him looks like a typical homosexual. You'd have no   
   >trouble finding a place for him in The Village People.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >So no explanation whatsoever either for the tissue samples or the   
   >assassination bid then.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >There is no plot. If there was, some random employee wouldn't go around   
   >stealing state secrets without an explanation for it. This is shit   
   >writing by a shit writer who doesn't care.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Given the complete lack of characterisation, character development, or   
   >explanation of his purpose in the story how are people supposed to   
   >remember his name, what he looked like, or who he was?   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   >Unless that is explicitly stated in the story that is pure speculation.   
   >It's the writer's job to explain it, not yours. But the shit writer of   
   >this garbage doesn't give a fuck about the quality of the writing   
   >because all he wants to use it for is to insert his disgusting hate   
   >filled political messages like Hitler did with exactly the same   
   >messaging and ideology in Mein Kampf.   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >We've seen no evidence of anything because this shit writer with his   
   >shit writing doesn't have the remotest clue how to tell a story and link   
   >all the parts of it together for it to make sense to the audience. All   
   >that he does in place of thorough explanation is to write irrelevant   
   >shit soap opera.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   >What does the murder of a civilian have to do with UNIT? They're not the   
   >Metropolitan police. There's not going to be an investigation because   
   >McTighe and Davies don't have a clue how to write it. They don't care   
   >about the story since they regard it as nothing more than a thin wrapper   
   >for their degenerate hate filled political messaging.   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> 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!   
   >>   
   >   
   >Newton's first law. But the chains should never have broken since   
   >they're deigned to hold back rapid acceleration/deceleration. I thought   
   >it was the fish lizard using their magic powers.   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   >It looked like Westminster Bridge to me, same one that they filmed The   
   >Dalek Invasion of Earth on.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 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!)   
   >>   
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