Russell T. Davies and fly evolution.
From watching the BBC’s new Doctor Who ‘Planet of the Dead’ last night I have concluded the following is how Russell T. Davies sees fly evolution:
1. The fly will grow in size. For some reason.
2. The fly will lose its wings because they will be insufficient to lift the fly owing to its new size.
3. The fly will lose two arms/legs because they will make sitting in chairs confusing and the manufacture of clothing expensive.
4. The fly will retain its dependency on eating excrement on account of there being even more enormous elephants and cows on its home planet: The Planet Of Seemingly Enormous Animals.
5. The fly will retain a two-fingered hand which will make it incredibly difficult to manipulate any tools or control anything yet still be able to build and pilot massive spaceships and tiny earpieces. An extra set of arms might have helped.
6. The fly will retain its fly head unchanged through evolution other than by increasing in size. Not for any practical reason but because otherwise you can’t tell it used to be a fly. Which it isn’t now. Oh no.
Russell T. Davies: putting the Fiction into Science Fiction. But that’s all.
