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|    Daniel70 to The True Doctor    |
|    Re: The War Between the Land and the Sea    |
|    23 Dec 25 23:05:13    |
      From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org              On 8/12/2025 6:35 pm, The True Doctor wrote:              (Remembering I've yet to see this series!!)              > I was considering posting two separate reviews but since the first       > two episodes of TWBLS were shown back-to-back and the writing and       > directing 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 and       > propaganda I'm going to review them both together.       >       > I'm will review this story written by Pete McTighe and created by       > Russel T Davies in comparison to Interstellar by Christopher Nolan       > since both contain an environmentalist message.       >       > While one is well written and the environmentalist message, which       > easily falls apart on careful consideration, is simply there to set       > up a situation where the human race needs to colonise extra       > terrestrial planets in order to survive, ushered on by a seemingly       > alien but in actuality Earth originating intelligence, serves the       > science fiction which always takes precedence and does not seek to       > be woke or lecture the audience, the other is pure degenerate woke       > lecturing spreading downright lies, mistruths, and misinformation,       > using science fiction as as a means to capture an audience and       > indoctrinate them with a one sided false narrative which overwhelms       > everting, 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 play-write who is       > incapable of writing any better then an undedicated infant.       >       > It all tarts off with a humanoid fish lizard being caught up in a       > fishing trawler’s nets in the Mediterranean and as soon as the       > fishermen see it they shoot it dead. Why are these fishermen       > carrying guns on a fishing boat in the middle of the Med? Why have       > they got them already pointing at the fish lizard the moment the nets       > are pulled up? It's as if they were deliberately hunting the fish       > lizard to begin with. Why isn't this explained? Why have the       > fishermen caught the fish lizard? Is it by accident or design? The       > writing is absolute shit from the very beginning as is the       > directing.       >       > The shooting of this fish lizard and then another causes other fish       > lizards to retaliate by killing two humans in revenge. Why? We still       > don't know if the fish lizards were first hunted down and then killed       > or not. The writing is total garbage. More about garbage later.       >       > Then the fish lizards all decide to reveal themselves to mankind       > because apparently as we learn later two of their hatchlings have       > been killed by pollution in the oceans. Like this is only supposed       > to have only ever happened now and not before? Humanity went by for       > hundreds of thousands of years, decades, centuries polluting the       > seas and oceans and no fish lizards ever died as a result of it until       > now? The writing is absolute excrement, just like the plot. Even the       > fish lizards complain about the excrement in the seas. What about       > their excrement? Don't fish shit in the water as they swim? Total       > hypocrisy.       >       > Oh, did I mention that these fish lizards can also fluidly change       > gender as they choose? I think I predicted they would months ago.              So what?? This sex change thing happens in the Real World .... in some       fish/aquatic species, as it happens!              > So the fish lizards want to communicate with mankind and we are       > subjected to 20 minutes of insulting padding showing attempts at       > translating their language or squeals, and newscasts documenting       > their appearances.              So THEY have to learn how to communicate with us .... not us learning       how to communicate with them!!              > This is totally unnecessary exposition which tells us nothing about       > the non-existent plot or motivations of the fish lizards or humans.       >       > An imbecilic, socially inept effeminate moron played played by the       > gay actor Russell Tovey is chosen by accident to be the ambassador       > for mankind.              Hey, Aggy, aren't Actors supposed to be able to ACT, you know, to       portray characters that they aren't!!              > The degenerate hypocrite Russell T Davies told everyone that only       > gay actors were suitable for playing the roles of gay characters, so       > why has an unconvincing gay actor playing what would appear to be a       > heterosexual character been inflicted on the audience?              Maybe none of the heterosexual actors wanted to work for Gay Russell.              > After he is activated by UNIT, Tovey is shown being woken up by what       > appears to be an obese mixed race male character who at first I       > believed to be his male lover.              Aren't obese male characters allowed to be mixed race??              > Then he drives off with this character who is about the same height       > as him to this black woman's house,              Aren't black women allowed to own houses??              > and I start to question if this character is actually male when she       > starts embracing the other black woman. What the fuck is going on?       > Are they lesbians? Bisexual? A manage a trois?              Does it really matter, Aggy??              > Oh, so she's supposed to be his daughter? Why the fuck doesn't she       > even look like him? I thought he was gay. He acts and behaves like       > he's gay.              Maybe he was a semen donor, Aggy.              > Haven't the producers and director got a clue how to cast people in       > appropriate roles so they look convincing?       >       > Now we come to Interstellar.              Your summary of 'Interstellar' didn't agree with my recollections so I had       a look through my DVD's cause I thought I had it .... but it seems I       didn't .... so can't really comment on your recollections of 'Interstellar'.              > Interstellar was about the main protagonist's relationship with his       > daughter. Everything was written around that relationship and from       > the characterisation of the daughter and the main protagonist’s son       > and their grandfather and their relationships with each other you       > could predict everything that followed in the plot, every motivation       > for why they did what they did and why they did it and even what       > they ending would be, in the first 5 minutes.              Well, I suppose that saves you watching the other 2hrs or so of the       movie, ah.              > Those relationships were embedded into the plot in order to serve       > and evolve the plot and were all necessary. In contrast there is no       > plot development, characterisation or character development at all       > concerning Tovey's daughter or apparently ex-wife. They serve no              [continued in next message]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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