Comments on: New Doctor Who will be great… Torchwood http://www.huz.org.uk/media/new-doctor-who-will-be-great-torchwood/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:08:14 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: elTee http://www.huz.org.uk/media/new-doctor-who-will-be-great-torchwood/comment-page-1/#comment-139 elTee Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:28:11 +0000 http://www.huz.org.uk/media/new-doctor-who-will-be-great-torchwood/#comment-139 Bah, alien technology. Aliens are a terrible crutch for Science Fiction to constantly lean on - in my opinion the best Science Fiction deals purely with human endeavour. Sure, H.G. Wells spins a good yarn, but as far as I'm concerned aliens come under the fantasy section in the library.<br /> <br /> Aliens ruined the X-Files! The best X-Files episodes (apart from that one that was set in the Artic and totally wasn't a copy of John Carpenters The Thing) were about weird stuff on Earth. The Outer Limits, which was generally better than The X-Files anyway (oh shut up, it was) didn't rely on aliens too much either.<br /> <br /> And for saddo conspiracy theorists like me, aliens are a lame excuse to explain away holes in peoples theories. "Aliens built the pyramids!!" BAH. Bah, alien technology. Aliens are a terrible crutch for Science Fiction to constantly lean on – in my opinion the best Science Fiction deals purely with human endeavour. Sure, H.G. Wells spins a good yarn, but as far as I’m concerned aliens come under the fantasy section in the library.

Aliens ruined the X-Files! The best X-Files episodes (apart from that one that was set in the Artic and totally wasn’t a copy of John Carpenters The Thing) were about weird stuff on Earth. The Outer Limits, which was generally better than The X-Files anyway (oh shut up, it was) didn’t rely on aliens too much either.

And for saddo conspiracy theorists like me, aliens are a lame excuse to explain away holes in peoples theories. “Aliens built the pyramids!!” BAH.

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