There's a great bit in the Dr. Who novel "Terminus" where a Companion is pointing a blaster at the Doc and, having had enough experience with the phenomena to be a connoisseur, is critiquing her current Possession By An Alien Power.
"This one is *really* good. Most of these things are really ham-fisted but this one reminds me of being addicted to cigarettes. I keep on promising myself that I won't keep on betraying humanity but I look away for a second and "Oops!" I've done it again. I get to display a lot of initiative too. It didn't think that you were complex enough to be a problem but I insisted that you were going to end up being the major obstacle here: hence your presence in this trap."
"Not *complex* enough!"
"I know: clueless upper management. Isn't it always that way? At least this one delegates responsibility properly. Speaking of which: good-bye Doctor." [Pulls trigger on blaster. Cut to next chapter.]
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Date: 2014-04-26 04:12 am (UTC)From:"This one is *really* good. Most of these things are really ham-fisted but this one reminds me of being addicted to cigarettes. I keep on promising myself that I won't keep on betraying humanity but I look away for a second and "Oops!" I've done it again. I get to display a lot of initiative too. It didn't think that you were complex enough to be a problem but I insisted that you were going to end up being the major obstacle here: hence your presence in this trap."
"Not *complex* enough!"
"I know: clueless upper management. Isn't it always that way? At least this one delegates responsibility properly. Speaking of which: good-bye Doctor." [Pulls trigger on blaster. Cut to next chapter.]