"We're doing Primeval for Space? Oh, dibs on that."
"Is it good?"
"No, it's really bad, but it's bad British sci-fi, and that's entirely different from bad American sci-fi."
"So you're saying even a sub-par British show is better than an average American..."
"No-- no, it's not better, it's different. It's a qualitatively different kind of suck, not quantitatively. It might not be better exactly, but it's not dull, it's entertaining to watch. You don't have to make up your own dialogue to enjoy yourself."
"Make up your own dialogue?"
"Like I've been doing to get myself through Buck Rogers. 'I don't want this to sound like a stupid question, but does anyone know how you address a Zykarian ambassador?' 'Destination in the centre, return in the upper left.' That kind of thing."
"So British suckage..."
"...is different in quality from American suckage."
"Good to know."
"Also, in Episode 3, a guy gets eaten alive by a giant crocodile dinosaur and it barfs out the bits that it can't digest."
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