Filing a complaint with the BBC because of all the deus ex machina in Doctor Who
@nyquildotorg
But it's a Doctor Who tradition. Lotsa luck with that, especially if you're a non-Brit. The Beeb scarcely listens to Brits who are up to date paying the Receiver Tax--nobody else counts.
@ClaraListensprechen4 I was joking. Also I'm not a Brit.
@ClaraListensprechen4 But I have seen dozens of headlines in the last week talking about BBC complaints about gender issues and wanted to come up with an actually reasonable complaint someone could file
@nyquildotorg
Oh, I see. Well, the joke, really, is the Beeb, which is what I was getting at, and there's a reason why Douglas Adams thought up Vogons, after typical Brit bureaucrats, ha.
@ClaraListensprechen4 I am such a big Douglas Adams fan that I actually bought The Salmon of Doubt, sure I was going to regret it because of how long he spent not finishing it before he died. Luckily they put some of his essays in there too, so it wasn't a total waste.
@nyquildotorg Oooh, hello there, fellow fan! I've got a leatherbound gold-leaf embossed edition of the five part trilogy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
I can't imagine anyone regretting, even for a second, buying anything he wrote! If it wasn't for his HHGTTG I wouldn't have gotten introduced to the Doctor. Adams fan first, Doctor fan second.
@ClaraListensprechen4 well, my regret was more along the lines of "he wasn't done with it, which means he wasn't ready for it to be published." But then his estate took all these various unfinished drafts and cobbled them together, which I knew was going to not be the same thing as him publishing something after being done with it. And it wasn't :(
@nyquildotorg
Still priceless nonetheless. It's still on my wish list.
@nyquildotorg
I fully expect that tendendy of his is why he didn't have a long tenure writing for the 4th Doctor.
Deadlines.
@ClaraListensprechen4 I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by
@ClaraListensprechen4 But then earlier this year I read the story about his editor locking him in a hotel forcing him to finish his work and realized that he may never have been "done" with it. Not sure how whether changes how I feel about someone else deciding to finish/release it, though...