The War Between the Land and the Sea

The war between the land and the sea is unlike any doctor who episode in a lot of ways. Apart from the odd unnecessary mention, it's totally separated, and that's a good thing.

To me this just feels like any other BBC drama but that's okay. The first 2 episodes have been fine, interesting enough but nothing amazing, equally tho I don't have a bad thing to say about it. The special effects and visuals are very good, the characters are decent and the story is okay. Given there is only 5 episodes, this seems it will end up just being another decent BBC drama to stick on when you're bored, but that's okay!

Overall from the doctor who universe this could be a lot better and a lot more interesting, but as a generic bit of telle it does the job, and it's nicely relevant to the modern day without feeling forced. Happily looking forward to seeing more.

What this show has:

• good premise that isn't utilized well
• a highly compressed super rushed story that should have been at least 8 episodes long
• love story sideplot which eventually takes over the central spot in the narrative for whatever reason
• moral lesson about how polluting sea is bad with absolutely no subtlety at all
• decent acting, budget and visual effects

What this show doesn't have:

• war (it was actually a series of meetings, and also some garbage was thrown)
• nuance (who would have guessed it, humans are the bad guys)
• authenticity (there was nothing unique or unpredictable about this show)

Skip, unless you are a hard-core sci-fi fan or you have a fantasy about dating a fish.

I'm a science fiction fan, always have been so will give a watch to anything of that genre.

The War Between the Land and the Sea was a good watch and I'm looking forward the the next few episodes.

The only problem as far as I'm concerned was the overly loud and intrusive background music. I had to strain to catch some of the dialogue.

Back in 2009 James Cameron gave us a huge hit Avatar telling the story of an Everyman who finds himself encountering an exotic new species and acting as the go between in a story with obvious themes of environmentalism, militarism and displacement. There of course was even a little romance too between our male human hero and our female alien.

Fast forward to 2025 and Russell T Davies has dreamed up this highly highly original series which of course bares not the slightest relation to the James Cameron hit film franchise!

Yes it's cheesy, yes it's obvious, IT'S Dr Who!!

Dr who essentially is and always has been a kids TV show Russell Tovey does a fairly decent job, his supporting cast are so with the special effects being a step up from the usual, I thought I'd give it 10 minutes and ended up watching 2 episodes Pure escapism early evening TV that the whole family can watch Give it a go.