One more thing about the Doctor Who finale
Jul. 8th, 2008 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The Osterhagen key has got to be single dumbest thing anyone in the entire sorry history of stupid plans has come up with. It's like all the stupid ideas in the world came together and bred the one perfect stupid idea. I especially like that it's an actual key so that any old crazy alien or lunatic timelord can get their hands on three of them and make planet Earth go boom! Given the fact that the Earth attracts enemies at a phenomenal rate, you would think even a four year old child would work out that establishing a handy way for it to get destroyed might not be the best of ideas. Good for Martha in that the only reason she was prepared to use it was because the Dalek plan wouldn't work without Earth.
Between this and UNIT doing Guantanamo Bay in Torchwood I sincerely hope the Brigadier comes back and knocks some sense into them.
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Date: 2008-07-09 10:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 04:20 pm (UTC)I am not sure you can make Torchwood look good...
I wonder what's behind the shift in the portrayal of UNIT especially as it doesn't really have a lot of payoff yet. I can think of lots of ways you could point out the same problems with the loss of civil liberties from the actions of governmental organizations without portraying the one global organization they've got as rather sinister.
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Date: 2008-07-10 12:06 am (UTC)Mick St. John can!
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Date: 2008-07-13 12:28 am (UTC)