I cant quite put my finger on it, but for some reason the British just can not do good tv sc-fi . Its just never ever believable. I can watch stargate all day long and hear samantha carta badgering on about energy fields and naqeda, yet when ever a character in a british series like dr who or torchwood start saying 'time fields' or 'time-space combobulator' i literally cringe. A combination of the writing and performance just make it for too unbelievable.
I think it might have something to do with the military approach that the americans take to Sci-Fi. The one thing all the major american Sci-Fi series have in common is an impending sense of doom often instilled in a military context with a proper chain of command and purpose of being.
In these british series, our protagonist finds himself in a mystical land of next to no importance surrounded by a group of socially retarded miscreants swimming about a proverbial soup of bizarre and unbelievable encounters like some fruit cake in a loony bin assured of his own destruction by the Tzar of muk-luk land.
I think it might have something to do with the military approach that the americans take to Sci-Fi. The one thing all the major american Sci-Fi series have in common is an impending sense of doom often instilled in a military context with a proper chain of command and purpose of being.
In these british series, our protagonist finds himself in a mystical land of next to no importance surrounded by a group of socially retarded miscreants swimming about a proverbial soup of bizarre and unbelievable encounters like some fruit cake in a loony bin assured of his own destruction by the Tzar of muk-luk land.
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