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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ed_Laprade" data-source="post: 3168983" data-attributes="member: 40172">A nice episode in the 50s. Until you stop and think about it, at which point you realize how incredibly stupid it actually is. One little shopkeeper innundates half of London with cheap TVs. How? Where does he get the resources for this? The Wire sure isn't providing any. It would take him months, if not years, to do so using his own time and money. Once you realize that, the whole thing just falls apart. There's no way the police would be able to haul off people without faces for that long without a word without a HUGE stink being made and lawsuits flying like confetti. Did I mention lawsuits? How about wrongfu death for all those faceless folks who died because the cops shoved them into warehouses instead of hospitals? Then there are the cops themselves. With as long as they'd have to work on the case they'd have to be the most incompetant morons on the face of the planet not to make the connection between the TVs and the faceless plague. And even if they were, they could call in Agatha Christy, who'd straighten them out within 24 hours, tops. And speaking of morons, why wasn't our shopkeeper concentrating on putting his TVs in pubs and other public places instead of private homes? Dumb but fun entertainment. (I especially liked the first few minutes with the Doctor and Rose going to see Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show... in London!)</blockquote>