#anvilicious

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The lack of subtlety in the anti-war and pro-refugee messages

in Series 10 was not something viewers missed.

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Buzzards circle over what was then the Waco Tribune-Herald building, 10 years ago today. Two years after I took this photo I was laid off; a year or so after that, the rest of the copy desk.

In 2021, the Trib moved out of this building, and over the next two years a red-brick newspaper plant was turned into the white-stucco headquarters of Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia empire.

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The programme has been criticised many times over the years for the heavy-handed way the writers tackled major social issues,

such as Geneva taking the decision to activate the bomb that destroyed the creature inside the Moon, which was likened to her aborting her own baby.

[kyliafanfiction]

I think my complaint about a lot of Trek’s anviliciousness is not so much that it is anvilicious, or that they’re dropping anvils (some anvils do need to be dropped) but rather that the writing seems so obviously aimed at the viewer.

Like, what I mean by that is I love it when my fiction is thought provoking, about moral, ethical, legal, philosophical, political, etc questions. I love it when characters discuss those things, or stories explore them.

But what I don’t love is feeling like I the viewer/reader/player am being lectured at. What I don’t love is feeling like the big speech the character is giving about whatever situation is happening in the story isn’t aimed at the other characters in said story, but aimed at me, the real person. That rips me out of the story entirely, and is just pointless didactic.

I want a story where characters having these conversations about right, and wrong, and truth and justice and how to live with eachother and so on and so on feel genuine and organic to the story. Like something these characters would actually say, something they would actually do.

And I want to feel like the characters are talking to eachother.

Not to me.

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The Thirteenth Inspector’s run so far has been just

littered with anti-gun and anti-violence rhetoric.

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It was a bit heavy-handed when the rock creatures rejected the Inspector in favour of Darlene,

calling the Inspector ‘too daft and spindly’ for the Rock Queen’s spirit to inhabit him.

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In ‘The Angel Above’, the Inspector

is compared to the giant Space Turtle.

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The fact that the BOOTH ended up painted blue

in ‘The Sadness Watch’ was a bit amusing.