Gloriosky, who's been posting things in my name while I've been away??
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4 points from just one sentence, Bill, you're a master.
Fish in a barrel -- see what four days without electricity and heat can do to the little gray cells.

Either that, or it's pronoun trouble. Let-th try that again...

>> First, It's FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH >>

Well of course it is.

>> second, that is QUATERMASS AND THE PIT >>

Yes, but I was making the distinction with the teleplay version, which as I say, I've never seen.

>> third, we're talking about QUATERMASS 2/ENEMY FROM SPACE >>

Among other things. I thought we were, by extension, discussing Nigel Kneale screenplays, and I was responding to skelt's QUATERMASS AND THE PIT comment, immediately preceding my own: "....It's just ineresting that one could look at QUATERMASS & THE PIT in the final reel where the ship is turning the population of London into a martian colony. Did anybody notice the people were turning on each other in a blatant form of ehtnic cleansing ! Hmmm? I wonder if Kneale was thinking "Those damn Nazis" in the back of his mind. "

>> fourth, "ethnic cleansing was not used in FIVE MILLION YEARS/...AND THE PIT >>

Now see, that was actually my whole point. There is a reference to this event in FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, specifically with regard to the "racial memory" recorded from the brainwave scan in the lab, where the martian 'bugs' are hopping up and down while being herded to the slaughter. My videotape is in a box in the attic right now so I can't cue up the scene, but I don't think I dreamed it. Help me out here, fellas -- does anyone know what I'm talking about? As we were discussing Kneale's take on the Holocaust, gee, I thought this might be pertinent.

>> as the term wasn't invented until, I think, in the 1980s. >>
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me: I think the dialogue even employs some variation on the phrase.
See, I was being careful to note that the phrase "ethnic cleansing" wasn't being directly used, but the dialogue as written still makes it pretty clear what's being referred to.