…that’s been sealed away for twenty million years? Yeah, well, they haven’t been heard from in almost a week. Of course. They were apparently within forty feet of breaking through to the miles-deep lake, racing against time, and using a system to stabilize the drill hole with kerosine…
Kerosine.
Look, I know that this isn’t a horror movie, and that the real worry is that these folks have simply frozen to death: but they could have still used a lot fewer cliches when setting up this scenario, OK?
(Via Instapundit)
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn…
“I know that this isn’t a horror movie, and that the real worry is that these folks have simply frozen to death…”
Sure. You keep telling yourself that. I’m willing to bet the last transmission ended with… something… that sounded like “tekeli-li!”
*looks right and then looks left* The Mi-go have nothing to do with this, I swear!
“I’ll be right back.”
“Something’s messing with the sensors. I’m going to go check it out. I’ll be right back.”……”Guys? Guys?!???”……………
And the last line in the second article was “It would be great fodder for a made for TV movie.” Seriously, somebody is genre tone deaf.
“Hey guys, watch this!”