So Doctor Who is not a complete loss. But then there are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning.I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called “World War II”.Lets start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesnt look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apopleptic rage when he doesnt get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons.
via squid314: Stuff.
Oh! I haven’t belly-laughed like this in weeks.
Go to this link and read his whole article. Then read the collecting comments below it…they are just as funny. There’s even a classic riff by a “not getting the joke” German–as though it were planned!
Lately I’ve been immersing myself in the study of telegraphy, so I’ve already got half my brain in the 1940′s…this was perfect synchronicity.