'War Between the Land and the Sea' Cut a Giant Squid Storm From Its Sea Devil Invasion

The Doctor Who spinoff Disney is still refusing to broadcast despite helping to pay for it, The War Between the Land and the Sea, is not very good. It’s not very good for a lot of reasons, but one of them in particular is that, for a show called The War Between the Land and the Sea that has a lot of characters talk about a war occurring between the land and the sea, it barely ever actually shows a conflict between the land and the sea. But that was apparently not always going to be the case. Speaking recently at the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, series co-showrunner Peter McTighe (via Cultbox) described a scene cut from an early moment in the show, as tensions between humanity and Aquakind (the show’s modernized term for the Sea Devils) begin to escalate. “There was only one big effects sequence that we ended up having to cut which was from the start of Episode 2, which was going to open in this beautiful restaurant on the Italian coast,” McTighe explained. “This young, hot couple were arriving in a sports car and then went into this amazing restaurant that had glass view of the sea that was beautiful. They sit down and he was going to propose to her and say he loves her