From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
      
   As with the previous four episodes the writing and directing of this   
   rubbish 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, propaganda, and complete and   
   utter hatred and contempt for humanity.   
      
   I will review this story written by the clueless and amateurish soap   
   opera hack and infantile political playwright Pete McTighe and devised   
   by the equally clueless, infantile and amateurish soap opera hack   
   Russell T Davies in comparison to The War of the Worlds written by the   
   great pioneer of science fiction H. G. Wells since both deal with an   
   alien lifeform which attempts to conquer humanity and is eventually   
   defeated by biology.   
      
   As before, when I reviewed this woke trash in comparison to Interstellar   
   and The Abyss, while one is well written with the writer foreshadowing   
   the advent of the First World War and the development of fighting   
   machines and weapons of mass destruction, with the British Empire   
   helpless against them in its complacency, and only saved by chance,   
   serving as a warning not to be left behind in science, technology,   
   engineering and medicine, and which deals with the issues of faith,   
   helplessness, idle boasting, and cowardice, the other is pure degenerate   
   woke lecturing expressing the writers' irrational hatred and contempt   
   for humanity and spreading downright lies, mistruths, and misinformation   
   about the environment, using science fiction as as a means to capture an   
   existing audience and indoctrinate them with a one sided false narrative   
   which overwhelms everything, 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 playwright who is   
   incapable of writing any better then an uneducated infant who doesn't   
   understand how to spread out bread crumbs in a line joining them   
   together to form a route that leads the way to a specific destination so   
   that others can easily follow it without having to search around blindly   
   for the next link which is missing.   
      
   The clueless Davies and McTighe throw breadcrumbs out at random as if   
   feeding the birds and are totally incapable of combining them in the   
   form of a linear narrative or plot. All that these degenerate hacks can   
   write is totally meaningless and irrelevant soap opera instead of using   
   character interactions in the manner used by H. G. Wells to tell a story   
   and discuss and debate the impact on humanity of events ensuing from the   
   plot, religious, cultural, and philosophical matters emanating from the   
   plot, strategy in combating and fleeing an enemy which is   
   technologically superior, fear and exploration of the unknown, and the   
   completion of a hero's journey. All of H. G. Wells' character   
   relationships and interactions advance the story and the plot. Davies'   
   and McTighe's don't.   
      
   Davies and McTighe from the start succeeded in totally destroying the   
   character of Kate Stewart by turning her into a hate filled self-serving   
   blackmailer who threatens her doctor with exposing her unfaithfulness to   
   her husband unless she prescribes her double the dosage of the   
   antidepressant drugs that she is taking, and does not declare her to be   
   medically unfit for duty.   
      
   All of this which is linked to Kate's recently deceased toyboy, who   
   appeared to everyone else to look gay, is totally irreverent to the   
   non-existent plot since it doesn't drive any future plot dependent   
   events. It's pure mind-numbing soap opera that slows the entire episode   
   down.   
      
   Why didn't the two hacks instead describe what motivated the fish   
   lizards to escalate the tensions by melting the ice cap over Antarctica?   
   Why the pretence of negotiations when the fish lizards were always after   
   taking the whole of Earth for themselves in the first place. Where is   
   the discussion of this which could have shown the characters developing?   
      
   This brinkmanship along with the ridiculous ultimatums which can never   
   be met is a total waste of time and serves as nothing more than padding.   
   Why not just start the entire story with a pre-meditated invasion and   
   land grab as H. G. Wells does in The War of the Worlds since the fish   
   lizards never had the intention of genuinely negotiating anything. The   
   entire story could have then been done in just one episode.   
      
   Why have the fish lizards rounded up all the dogs so that they could eat   
   them in retaliation for the humans eating the fish? It would have been   
   better to make them completely unjustifiable and unsympathetic   
   protagonists by having them harvest the humans for food instead, as H.   
   G. Wells does in TWOTW.   
      
   As with Kate's relationship with her homosexual singling toyboy the   
   relationship between Tovey's character Barkley and his ex-wife and   
   repulsively obese daughter serves no purpose in this story either and   
   could easily have been left out. The character of an ex that he's never   
   going to get back with is totally incapable of consoling him and makes   
   no sense when he's in love with someone else. He should have been   
   discussing relationship matters with another man not a woman, unless   
   he's gay. Oh, wait a moment, he is, and so is at least one of the   
   writes. This is why gay writers should not be allowed to write   
   relationships for heterosexual audience. Only heterosexual writers can   
   understand that. RTD why don't you take your own advice since you claim   
   that only gay actors can understand how to play gay characters?   
      
   The daughter also serves no purpose whatsoever. If he'd cared about   
   either of them he'd never have wanted to go off after the fish lizard.   
      
   Tovey is locked up in a hotel room for his safety, but is given a device   
   to disable the security cameras so he can go to the sea and call for the   
   female signalling fish lizard. How does it work? Explain it otherwise no   
   one will suspend their disbelief since it implies stupidity in the   
   people monitoring the cameras who are easy to fool.   
      
   Why even lock him up when the intention of the powers-that-be is to have   
   him make contact with the fish lizard anyway. Why not just let him do   
   that normally? Davies and McTighe don't have the faintest clue how to   
   write plot or who the most important characters and elements in the   
   story should be.   
      
   Apparently the word "severance" is cropping up all over the place. Well   
   why hasn't it been mentioned then until this episode? Instead of giving   
   the audience foreshadowing and build up it's pulled out of nowhere at   
   random because...   
      
   The same thing goes for "accord". Because... Why not replace the   
   degenerate soap opera with world building and show us the fish lizards   
      
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