History Quotes / EaglelandOsmosis

'''Q''': If the CIA made me an offer, I'd be off like a shot. Unlimited resources, air conditioning, flavours of ice cream in the restaurant.
-->--''Film/NeverSayneverAgain''

->When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, high-speed pizza delivery.
-->--'''Hiro''', ''Literature/SnowCrash''

-->--'''Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds''', "Hollywood"

!!!Fiction
->''Hollywood infected your brain\\
You wanted kissing in the rain, oh, oh\\
Living in a movie scene\\
Puking American dreams, oh, oh\\
I'm obsessed with the mess that's America''
-->--'''Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds''', "Hollywood"

->Can you believe it? Fifty miles from [=McDonald's=]. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from [=McDonald's=].
-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

->'''Gwendolyn Post:''' The fact is, there is talk in the council that you have become a bit too... [inhales sharply] [[NoTrueScotsman American]].\\
'''Buffy:''' ''[[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Him?]]''\\
'''Giles''': ''[[IAmVeryBritish Me?]]''
-->--''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', [[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E7Revelations}} "Revelations"]]

->'''Prime Minister [[TheMaster Harold Saxon]]:''' Anything I can do? I could make the tea - or isn't that American enough? I dunno, I could make grits. What are "grits", anyway?\\
'''President Winters:''' If you could just sit?\\
'''Saxon:''' ''(to his wife, rolling his eyes)'' Misery guts.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Sound of Drums"

->What does the rest of the world have to tell ''us'' about how to do things? Build more trains? Have ''people'' elect their leader rather than an elite electoral college? Ride ''a bike'' to work like a girl scout or a clown with dietary concerns? No thanks, [[DirtyCommunists Vladimir.]]
-->--'''[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Alex Shrub]]''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity''

->'''Graham:''' I plead the Fifth.\\
'''Kathleen:''' We're [[CanadaEh Canadian]]. We don't have amendments.
-->--''[[LoadingReadyRun Checkpoint]]'', Episode 52

!!!Real Life
->I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.
-->--'''Aldous Huxley''' on WorldWarI (attributed by J.G. Ballard)

->Europe doesn't fear our military or economic prowess, rather it is Henry Ford who gives them the shivers... By Americanization it means Fordization--and not only in industry but also in politics, art and even religion.
-->--'''Creator/HLMencken'''

->[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We just couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them. The only drawback was that to qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be in heaven. I prayed hard that [[GallowsHumor a bomb would drop on mine]] as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms.
-->--'''Creator/TomBaker''', ''Who On Earth is Tom Baker?''

->You know, in more than half a century of reading the mainstream American press, I have yet to a read a story that reported on any good news of any other society. If Swedish education and daycare centers are better than ours, it is because half the population must periodically [[GermanicDepressives commit suicide]].
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''

->He really does kind of superimpose the way his system works onto the way he thinks our system works. He grossly exaggerates the role of the [[{{CIA}} C.I.A.]] in the making of our foreign policy.
-->--Diplomat '''[=Michael McFaul=]''' on UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin

->Europeans aren't aware of it apparently, but if you go there it's kind of like a pale United States at this point, yet they still have this [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan great feeling of independence]], so it's even more dramatic. I mean, Western European intellectuals like to think of themselves as very sophisticated and sort of laughing at these [[SlobsVersusSnobs dumb Americans]]--but they are so brainwashed by the United States that it's a joke.
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''', ''Understanding Power''

->Rarely do we hear intellectuals from other nations; they’re not relevant to “Americans”, no matter how deeply we’ve impacted their culture and history.
-->--'''[[http://metagearsolid.org/2015/01/big-boss-as-che-guevara/ Alexander Sylazhov]]''', "Big Boss as UsefulNotes/CheGuevara"

->Here in Germany the people joke that things have become more Americanized, i.e. a deteriorating situation for for the working and middle classes.
-->--[[http://www.prosebeforehos.com/article-of-the-day/10/03/young-americans-should-emigrate/ Thomas McGath]]

->It's amazing in Europe. Europe has been extraordinarily colonized by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable--Europeans aren't aware of it apparently, but if you go there it's kind of like a pale United States at this point, yet they still have this [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan great feeling of independence]], so it's even more dramatic. I mean, Western European intellectuals like to think of themselves as very sophisticated and sort of laughing at these [[SlobsVersusSnobs dumb Americans]]--but they are so brainwashed by the United States that it's a joke. Their perceptions of the world and their misunderstandings and so on are all filtered through American television and movies and newspapers, but somehow by this point they just don't recognize it.

->If there’s one thing we have no shortage of in the world, it’s the perspective of the USA’s media and public. Rarely do we hear intellectuals from other nations; they’re not relevant to “Americans”, no matter how deeply we’ve impacted their culture and history.... a silly little PSP game like ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'' can open old wounds that most Americans know nothing about. The Latin folk hero of the 1950’s and 60’s may be “iconic” in North America, but in the most reductionist sense of the word, appearing on t-shirts and capitalist merchandise [[MisaimedFandom without a shred of irony.]]

->The BBC have a hit in America, and as long as that remains the case they will continue to support the show. More than that though, ever since [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] has become aware of it's popularity in the US, I think he has started to tailor the show to appeal across the pond; ''Doctor Who'' is being made in Britain for the American market and unsurprisingly they are lapping it up. We've visited America three times in the last two years and the very structure of MattSmith's final season was to make mini Hollywood movies on a BBC budget, nuggets of cinema. [[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]] was the ultimate expression of cinematic ''Doctor Who'' with some astonishing action sequences and effects being plastered all over the local cinemas. Look at where the Matt Smith era began: all rural villages and quirky British tics. Look at where it ended: [[EpicMovie heroic speeches, a menagerie of monsters, style over substance]] and convoluted and unsatisfying resolution of arcs. The Americanisation of ''Doctor Who'' started with season six and it's Impossible Astronaut arc and it hasn't looked back. Capaldi was a chance to bring the show back to it's humble, idiosyncratic British roots. Instead we've had [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath}} a Hollywood version of Victorian London]] (complete with a roaming dinosaur), [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek}} a Hollywood version of a Dalek story]] (''[[Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey I Shrunk the Regulars]]'', ''[[Film/ReservoirDogs Reservoir Daleks]]'') and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood}} a Hollywood version of Robin Hood]] (replete with spaceships and robots).

->Where once we were the dragons on the map schisming the known world, now we are the very mouth of the {{Ouroboros}}, clamped down tight upon ourselves. If we are a global superpower and exceptional, it is because we are a cipher, the still blank part of the map that connects one end to the other....When all roads lead somewhere, that place is no longer a place.

->I've been saying for many years that we don't really have a two party system in this country, and certainly we don't really even have the appearance of one...UsefulNotes/BillClinton and his '[[NewEraSpeech New Democrats]]' did away with all that by putting the last knife in the back of the working class, though in truth the process began when [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] -- so-called champion of the Silent Majority-- went to China to open up its labor camps and sweatshops to American corporations.
-->--'''[[http://secretsun.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-11-14T10:37:00-05:00&max-results=3 Christopher Loring Knowles]]'''

->You may remember your liberal friends threatening to move to [[CanadaEh Canada]] after UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was re-elected. But something surprising has happened in the last few years: Conservatives have fallen in love with Canada. The conservative journalist John Fund wrote in ''National Review'' this month that Canada is becoming 'more American than America.' That’s the same John Fund who wrote a 1995 Wall Street Journal staff editorial calling Canada 'an honorary member of the third world.' A lot can change in two decades.
-->--'''[[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/upshot/the-new-conservative-love-affair-with-canada.html?rref=upshot&abt=0002&abg=1&_r=0 Josh Baro]]''' ''New York Times''

->By 1996, political ads looked [[AttackOfThePoliticalAd a lot scarier]]—the ominous voice-overs, the allegations that political opponents are not just wrong but dangerous: They’re staples of a particular style of campaigning introduced to Israel by the American Arthur Finkelstein, the spin-master Netanyahu had hired...Finkelstein’s engagement was the first time an American consultant was so deeply involved in an Israeli campaign, but it wasn’t the last—nowadays, many Israeli politicians, left and right, hire Washington’s brightest minds to orchestrate their quests for power. In less than a decade, Israeli political culture, once staid in a C-SPAN sort of way, has become a horror film, with ads and jingles featuring fear, loathing, and blood.

->Thirty years ago, MargaretThatcher turned Britain into the world’s leading centre of 'thinking the unthinkable'. Today that distinction has passed to {{Sweden}}. The streets of Stockholm are awash with the blood of sacred cows. The think-tanks are brimful of new ideas. The erstwhile champion of the '[[TakeAThirdOption third way]]' is now pursuing a far more interesting brand of politics....Brian Palmer, an American anthropologist who lives in Sweden, worries that it is turning into 'the United States of Swedeamerica'...The other Nordic countries have been moving in the same direction, if more slowly.
-->--'''''The Economist''''', "Northern Lights"

->As Americans we can serve as warnings to other nations... We have something to offer the world as a generation; we must offer the real picture of America, a nation divided under class and race. Here in Germany the people joke that things have become more Americanized, i.e. a deteriorating situation for for the working and middle classes. The low-pay sector in Germany has grown since the Social Democratic Party enacted neoliberal reform under former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. As I like to say, 'Don’t do it like we do, please.'

->You know, in more than half a century of reading the mainstream American press, I have yet to a read a story that reported on any good news of any other society. If Swedish education and daycare centers are better than ours, it is because half the population must periodically commit suicide.

->[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We just couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them. The only drawback was that to qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be in heaven. I prayed hard that a bomb would drop on mine as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms.

->It's amazing in Europe. Europe has been extraordinarily colonized by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable--Europeans aren't aware of it apparently, but if you go there it's kind of like a pale United States at this point, yet they still have this great feeling of independence, so it's even more dramatic. I mean, Western European intellectuals like to think of themselves as very sophisticated and sort of laughing at these dumb Americans--but they are so brainwashed by the United States that it's a joke. Their perceptions of the world and their misunderstandings and so on are all filtered through American television and movies and newspapers, but somehow by this point they just don't recognize it.

-->--'''Jack''', ''MiracleDay''

->The BBC have a hit in America, and as long as that remains the case they will continue to support the show. More than that though, ever since [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] has become aware of it's popularity in the US, I think he has started to tailor the show to appeal across the pond; ''Doctor Who'' is being made in Britain for the American market and unsurprisingly they are lapping it up. We've visited America three times in the last two years and the very structure of MattSmith's final season was to make mini Hollywood movies on a BBC budget, nuggets of cinema. [[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]] was the ultimate expression of cinematic ''Doctor Who'' with some astonishing action sequences and effects being plastered all over the local cinemas. Look at where the Matt Smith era began: all rural villages and quirky British tics. Look at where it ended: [[EpicMovie heroic speeches, a menagerie of monsters, style over substance]] and convoluted and unsatisfying resolution of arcs. The Americanisation of ''Doctor Who'' started with season six and it's Impossible Astronaut arc and it hasn't looked back. Capaldi was a chance to bring the show back to it's humble, idiosyncratic British roots. Instead we've had [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath}} a Hollywood version of Victorian London]] (complete with a roaming dinosaur), [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek}} a Hollywood version of a Dalek story]] (''[[HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey I Shrunk the Regulars]]'', ''[[ReservoirDogs Reservoir Daleks]]'') and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood}} a Hollywood version of Robin Hood]] (replete with spaceships and robots).

-->--'''''RationalWiki'''''

-->--'''[[http://metagearsolid.org/2015/01/big-boss-as-che-guevara/ Aleander Sylazhov]]''', "Big Boss as UsefulNotes/CheGuevara"

-->--'''[[http://metagearsolid.org/2015/01/big-boss-as-che-guevara/ Aleander Sylazhov]]''"Big Boss as UsefulNotes/CheGuevara"

->''"Hollywood infected your brain\\

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America"''

->''“Can you believe it? Fifty miles from [=McDonald's=]. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from [=McDonald's=].”''

->'''Gwendolyn Post:''' The fact is, there is talk in the council that you have become a bit too... [inhales sharply] [[NoTrueScotsman American]].
->'''Buffy:''' ''[[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Him?]]''
->'''Giles''': ''[[IAmVeryBritish Me?]]''
-->--'''''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''''', [[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E7Revelations}} "Revelations"]]

->'''Prime Minister [[TheMaster Harold Saxon]]:''' Anything I can do? I could make the tea - or isn't that American enough? I dunno, I could make grits. What are "grits", anyway?
->'''President Winters:''' If you could just sit?
->'''Saxon:''' ''(to his wife, rolling his eyes)'' Misery guts.

->''"What does the rest of the world have to tell ''us'' about how to do things? Build more trains? Have ''people'' elect their leader rather than an elite electoral college? Ride ''a bike'' to work like a girl scout or a clown with dietary concerns? No thanks, [[DirtyCommunists Vladimir.]]"''

-->--'''''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'''''

->''"I’m American too! Can’t I contribute to our global cultural hegemony with a nice frosty cola?"''

-> '''Hooligan:''' This is an illegal arrest! I wasn't read my rights!
-> '''Lieutenant Pöysti:''' They don't read you your rights in Finland, idiot!

->'''Graham:''' I plead the Fifth.
->'''Kathleen:''' We're [[CanadaEh Canadian]]. We don't have amendments.

->''"I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe."''

->''"Europe doesn't fear our military or economic prowess, rather it is Henry Ford who gives them the shivers... By Americanization it means Fordization--and not only in industry but also in politics, art and even religion."''

->''"[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We just couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them. The only drawback was that to qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be in heaven. I prayed hard that a bomb would drop on mine as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms."''

->''"You know, in more than half a century of reading the mainstream American press, I have yet to a read a story that reported on any good news of any other society. If Swedish education and daycare centers are better than ours, it is because half the population must periodically commit suicide."''

->''"He really does kind of superimpose the way his system works onto the way he thinks our system works. He grossly exaggerates the role of the [[{{CIA}} C.I.A.]] in the making of our foreign policy.”''

->''"It's amazing in Europe. Europe has been extraordinarily colonized by the United States, to an extent that is almost unbelievable--Europeans aren't aware of it apparently, but if you go there it's kind of like a pale United States at this point, yet they still have this great feeling of independence, so it's even more dramatic. I mean, Western European intellectuals like to think of themselves as very sophisticated and sort of laughing at these dumb Americans--but they are so brainwashed by the United States that it's a joke. Their perceptions of the world and their misunderstandings and so on are all filtered through American television and movies and newspapers, but somehow by this point they just don't recognize it."''

->''“Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.”''

->''"One of the great recurring themes of ''Series/TheXFiles'' is that globilisation and rapid development have cast light on the deepest nooks and crannies, having a homogenising effect. There’s little room in the world for the eccentric and the strange, as Starbucks opens an average of two stores every day and access to the internet in the United States doubling between 2000 and 2014. In 2009, the furthest a person could be from a McDonalds in the United States was 107 miles. The world is getting smaller.\\\
Paradoxically, the only wins up pushing people further apart. This happens on both a community and an individual level. Small towns find themselves struggling to survive in the current economic climate, despite the increased accessibility. Despite the growth of social media to make interpersonal communication easier than ever, the number of people feeling socially isolated has doubled since 1985."''
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/08/28/the-x-files-humbug-review/ Darren Mooney]]'''

->''"The BBC have a hit in America, and as long as that remains the case they will continue to support the show. More than that though, ever since [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] has become aware of it's popularity in the US, I think he has started to tailor the show to appeal across the pond; ''Doctor Who'' is being made in Britain for the American market and unsurprisingly they are lapping it up. We've visited America three times in the last two years and the very structure of MattSmith's final season was to make mini Hollywood movies on a BBC budget, nuggets of cinema. [[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]] was the ultimate expression of cinematic ''Doctor Who'' with some astonishing action sequences and effects being plastered all over the local cinemas. Look at where the Matt Smith era began: all rural villages and quirky British tics. Look at where it ended: [[EpicMovie heroic speeches, a menagerie of monsters, style over substance]] and convoluted and unsatisfying resolution of arcs. The Americanisation of ''Doctor Who'' started with season six and it's Impossible Astronaut arc and it hasn't looked back. Capaldi was a chance to bring the show back to it's humble, idiosyncratic British roots. Instead we've had [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath}} a Hollywood version of Victorian London]] (complete with a roaming dinosaur), [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek}} a Hollywood version of a Dalek story]] (''[[HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey I Shrunk the Regulars]]'', ''[[ReservoirDogs Reservoir Daleks]]'') and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood}} a Hollywood version of Robin Hood]] (replete with spaceships and robots)."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2014/09/robot-of-sherwood-written-by-mark.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Robots of Sherwood"

->''"Where once we were the dragons on the map schisming the known world, now we are the very mouth of the {{Ouroboros}}, clamped down tight upon ourselves. If we are a global superpower and exceptional, it is because we are a cipher, the still blank part of the map that connects one end to the other....When all roads lead somewhere, that place is no longer a place."''

->''"Perhaps the most glaring meaning of the American Dream can be found in {{China}}, where the 'Chinese Dream' has been adopted by Xi Jinping as a government slogan. It essentially boils down to 'hey, here's some more money in your pockets so you can [[BreadAndCircuses handwave the abuses of our dictatorship for a few more years.]]'"''
-->--''RationalWiki''

->''"You may remember your liberal friends threatening to move to [[CanadaEh Canada]] after UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush was re-elected. But something surprising has happened in the last few years: Conservatives have fallen in love with Canada. The conservative journalist John Fund wrote in ''National Review'' this month that Canada is becoming 'more American than America.' That’s the same John Fund who wrote a 1995 Wall Street Journal staff editorial calling Canada 'an honorary member of the third world.' A lot can change in two decades."''

->''"By 1996, political ads looked [[AttackOfThePoliticalAd a lot scarier]]—the ominous voice-overs, the allegations that political opponents are not just wrong but dangerous: They’re staples of a particular style of campaigning introduced to Israel by the American Arthur Finkelstein, the spin-master Netanyahu had hired...Finkelstein’s engagement was the first time an American consultant was so deeply involved in an Israeli campaign, but it wasn’t the last—nowadays, many Israeli politicians, left and right, hire Washington’s brightest minds to orchestrate their quests for power. In less than a decade, Israeli political culture, once staid in a C-SPAN sort of way, has become a horror film, with ads and jingles featuring fear, loathing, and blood."''

->''"Thirty years ago, MargaretThatcher turned Britain into the world’s leading centre of 'thinking the unthinkable'. Today that distinction has passed to {{Sweden}}. The streets of Stockholm are awash with the blood of sacred cows. The think-tanks are brimful of new ideas. The erstwhile champion of the '[[TakeAThirdOption third way]]' is now pursuing a far more interesting brand of politics....Brian Palmer, an American anthropologist who lives in Sweden, worries that it is turning into 'the United States of Swedeamerica'...The other Nordic countries have been moving in the same direction, if more slowly."''

->''"As Americans we can serve as warnings to other nations... We have something to offer the world as a generation; we must offer the real picture of America, a nation divided under class and race. Here in Germany the people joke that things have become more Americanized, i.e. a deteriorating situation for for the working and middle classes. The low-pay sector in Germany has grown since the Social Democratic Party enacted neoliberal reform under former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. As I like to say, 'Don’t do it like we do, please.'"''

-->--'''NeilGaiman'''

->'''Gwendolyn Post:''' The fact is, there is talk in the council that you have become a bit too... [inhales sharply] [[NoTrueScotsman American]].\\
'''Buffy:''' ''[[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Him?]]''\\
'''Giles''': ''[[IAmVeryBritish Me?]]''

->''"The BBC have a hit in America, and as long as that remains the case they will continue to support the show. More than that though, ever since [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] has become aware of it's popularity in the US, I think he has started to tailor the show to appeal across the pond; ''Doctor Who'' is being made in Britain for the American market and unsurprisingly they are lapping it up. We've visited America three times in the last two years and the very structure of MattSmith's final season was to make mini Hollywood movies on a BBC budget, nuggets of cinema. [[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]] was the ultimate expression of cinematic ''Doctor Who'' with some astonishing action sequences and effects being plastered all over the local cinemas. Look at where the Matt Smith era began: all rural villages and quirky British tics. Look at where it ended: [[EpicMovie heroic speeches, a menagerie of monsters, style over substance]] and convoluted and unsatisfying resolution of arcs. The Americanisation of ''Doctor Who'' started with season six and it's Impossible Astronaut arc and it hasn't looked back. Capaldi was a chance to bring the show back to it's humble, idiosyncratic British roots. Instead we've had [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath}} a Hollywood version of Victorian London]] (complete with a roaming dinosaur), [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek}} a Hollywood version of a Dalek story]] (''[[HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey I Shrunk the Regulars]]'', ''[[ReservoirDogs Reservoir Daleks]]'') and a Hollywood version of Robin Hood (replete with spaceships and robots)."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2014/09/robot-of-sherwood-written-by-mark.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood}} "Robots of Sherwood"]]

->''"He really does kind of superimpose the way his system works onto the way he thinks our system works. He grossly exaggerates the role of the [[{{CIA}} C.I.A.]] in the making of our foreign policy.”''
-->--Diplomat '''[=Michael McFaul=]''' on UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin

->''"The BBC have a hit in America and as low as that remains the case they will continue to support the show. More than that though, even since [[Creator/StevenMoffat Moffat]] has become aware of it's popularity in the US I think he has started to tailor the show to appeal across the pond, ''Doctor Who'' is being made in Britain for the American market and unsurprisingly they are lapping it up. We've visited America three times in the last two years and the very structure of MattSmith's final season was to make mini Hollywood movies on a BBC budget, nuggets of cinema. [[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]] was the ultimate expression of cinematic ''Doctor Who'' with some astonishing action sequences and effects being plastered all over the local cinemas. Look at where the Matt Smith era began...all rural villages and quirky British tics. Look at where it ended... heroic speeches, a menagerie of monsters, style over substance and convoluted and unsatisfying resolution of arcs. The Americanisation of ''Doctor Who'' started with season six and it's impossible astronaut arc and it hasn't looked back. Capaldi was a chance to bring the show back to it's humble, idiosyncratic British roots. Instead we've had [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath}} a Hollywood version of Victorian London]] (complete with a roaming dinosaur), [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek}} a Hollywood version of a Dalek story]] (''[[HoneyIShrunkTheKids Honey I Shrunk the Regulars]]'', ''[[ReservoirDogs Reservoir Daleks]]'') and a Hollywood version of Robin Hood (replete with spaceships and robots)."''

->''"What does the rest of the world have to tell ''us'' about how to do things? Build more trains? Have ''people'' elect their leader rather than an elite electoral college? Ride a bike to work like a girl scout or a clown with dietary concerns? No thanks, [[DirtyCommunists Vladimir.]]"''

->''"[[WorldWarII At that time]], the ''Superman'' comics were widely-read, and there were American soldiers all over the place. As American accents only reached us through the films, it was like being a movie to meet them--or wear clothes that from their country. We adored everything about America. We just couldn't get enough of it, from gums, to caps, to shirts with funny figures printed on them. The only drawback was that qualify for the goodies, your mam had to be in heaven. I prayed hard that a bomb would drop on mine as she trudged home from the Sefton Arms."''

->'''Gwendolyn Post:''': The fact is, there is talk in the council that you have become a bit too... [inhales sharply] [[NoTrueScotsman American]].\\

->'''Number Two:''' It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village.\\
'''Number Six:''' It's run by one side or the other.\\
'''Number Two:''' Oh, certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community -- a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that ''this'' is the pattern for the future.\\
'''Number Six:''' [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld The whole world as the Village?]]
-->--'''''Series/ThePrisoner''''', "The Chimes of Big Ben"
----

->''"Where once we were the dragons on the map schisming the known world, now we are the very mouth of the {{Ouroboros}}, clamped down tight upon ourselves. If we are a global superpower and exceptional, it is because we are a cipher, the still blank part of the map that connects one end to the other....When all roads lead somewhere, that place is no longer a place."''
-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/01/elsewhere-there-be-dragons-double.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"Perhaps the most glaring meaning of the American Dream can be found in {{China}}, where the 'Chinese Dream' has been adopted by Xi Jinping as a government slogan. It essentially boils down to 'hey, here's some more money in your pockets so you can [[BreadAndCircuses handwave the abuses of our dictatorship for a few more years.]]'"''
-->--''RationalWiki''

-->'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2014/09/robot-of-sherwood-written-by-mark.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood}} "Robots of Sherwood"]]

->'''Number Two:''' It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village.\\
'''Number Six:''' It's run by one side or the other.\\
'''Number Two:''' Oh, certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community -- a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that ''this'' is the pattern for the future.\\
'''Number Six:''' [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld The whole world as the Village?]]
-->--'''''Series/ThePrisoner''''', "The Chimes of Big Ben"