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|    The Doctor to agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM    |
|    Re: The War Between the Land and the Sea    |
|    22 Dec 25 06:54:05    |
      [continued from previous message]              >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       >              This is not the Green Death.              >--       >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       >                     --       Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca       Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising!       Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ;       Merry Christmas 2025 and Happy New Year 2026              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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