📺 Watched The War Between the Land and the Sea.

This is a spin-off from the Doctor Who franchise (which I am still working my way through more than two years later) featuring one of its historic baddies - the Sea Devils, first seen in 1972. Although they’re generally referred to as the more politically correct, and fairer, names of Aquakind or Homo Aqua in this update.

They’ve been living quietly under the sea for time immemorial but are forced to emerge when humankind reached the contemporary point in time where we’ve polluted and otherwise damaged the sea so much that their species can no longer survive in it. Their emergence triggers a global crisis, and seems set to result in the titular war.

Enter unlikely Ambassador Barclay, heretofore an admin in the famous Doctor Who UNIT division. He’s more used to ordering taxis for the upper brass than negotiating with a fundamentally alien species who feel like their lives are threatened by the very existence of humanity but there we go, circumstances force him into it anyway. However, as the story line continues, he’s forced to confront the question that I wish much of present-day humanity should introspect on today: are we the baddies? Whose side should he be on?