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   The True Doctor to All   
   The War Between the Land and the Sea E05   
   22 Dec 25 00:30:33   
   
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   culture in action, then the audience will know what it means and wonder   
   whether the humans will ask for this process. As usual with the writing   
   of the clueless hack Davies, it turns out to be all for nothing.   
      
   Severance turns out to be a code word for a virus the powers-that-be   
   have created to infect the fish lizards. Why isn't the development of   
   the virus shown? Show, not tell. If you're not going to show it then why   
   not just have the fish lizards being killed off by natural bacteria just   
   as H. G. Wells does with the Martians in TWOTW. This would then   
   reinforce humanity's helplessness and is better writing than coming up   
   with a conspiracy pulled out of thin air because...   
      
   Ninety percent of the fish lizards are killed by the virus and they   
   surrender. Is Tovey the one who transmitted it to them after he was   
   injected? Why didn't it affect his fish lizard girlfriend who told him   
   to ask for accord then?   
      
   So that's the story... What purpose do Tovey and UNIT serve in it?   
   Nothing whatsoever as the virus could have easily been transmitted in   
   the conferences room, or from the atmosphere, or water, without   
   detection, so what's the point of them having them in it at all? Instead   
   the story should have concentrated on the politicians developing the   
   virus. No, they should have just adapted The War of the Worlds set in   
   modern times just as Orson Welles did in the 1930s instead of coming up   
   with a degenerate narrow minded woke lecture which is totally   
   meaningless since it's built on a false narrative and patchwork of woke   
   lies.   
      
   Instead of Germany in both world wars, Russia could have served as the   
   antagonist concealed is allegory, but unlike TWOTW there is no   
   algological foreshadowing of anything in The Woke Between the Land and   
   the Sea. It's in-your-face woke propaganda which isn't either challenged   
   or discussed, which means an intelligent audience will reject it.   
      
   Everything was inserted as pure padding for a story which should only   
   have lasted 30 minutes at most if it was written well. The Sarah Jane   
   Adventures did story telling infinitely better than this.   
      
   At the end the remaining fish lizards are given a new home at the bottom   
   of a 7 mile deep sea trench in the Pacific. What's wrong with their   
   existing trench? Isn't 5 miles deep enough? Why not just exterminate the   
   whole lot of them thus preventing them from threatening humanity ever again.   
      
   Tovey dives off with the fish lizard, to the sound of "We Could be   
   Heroes", after Kate gets a message from his doctor who diagnoses   
   something the matter with him which is never explained. Has he developed   
   gills? Is this what "accord" means, breeding with the fish lizards?   
      
   After this Kate Stewart sees a man throw a plastic bottle onto a beach   
   and then demands that he pick it up, and when he doesn't and it's taken   
   away by the tide she pulls a gun on him.   
      
   Complete, utter and absolute, woke garbage.   
      
   0/10   
      
   --   
   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   
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