Londoners Are Insane, Thank God

[moon_custafer]

Link to a page of British comments on yesterday's events. I particularly like:


It's hard to panic the British. They've dealt with the Blitz, the IRA, the Silurians, the Zarbi, the Daleks, the Cybermen..."

Actually, I don't recall them dealing with the Zarbi. Wasn't it the Menoptera who kept getting beaten down by those giant pantomime ants?

Comments

besides Daleks....

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

Not to mention murderous mannequins and the Slitheen....

Giant pantomime ants

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed. Although, in fairness, it should be noted that the
Pantomime Ants were but dupes of one of those rabble-rousing,
immaterial intelligences that float around the Who-verse.

/Don

P.S. Also note that this was the famous episode that broke the
show's budget. The producer had been overjoyed to receive this huge
cheque from the BBC: thinking that it was for the next *show* when,
in fact, it was for the next *season*. So the Zarbi show had whole
troops of ballerinas being Giant Pantomime Butterflies and so
forth and was a critical and ratings smash.

Then the producer when back for another cheque and was sniffily
informed that there was no more where that had come from. So, while
frantic budget re-negotiations were underway, the next episode was
all in the control room of the TARDIS since that was the only set
they owned. I remember it as a nice one of those four-people-stuck-
in-an-elevator screenplays.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

those rabble-rousing,
immaterial intelligences that float around the Who-verse.

Who presumably are themselves merely a front for that evil race, forever plunging the Doctor and his friends into danger, the Scriptwriters.

Speaking of giant ants, I finally saw Them! Last night. Excellent.

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

I finally saw Them! Last night. Excellent.

The first and the best of the giant insect movies.