In tragic news for those of us who’ve been determinedly calling the forthcoming (questionable) Doctor Who spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea “that Sea Devils show” or something vaguely similar, we’re going to have to update our terminology. Because in the world of this series, that term is actually kind of offensive. Yes, really.

Apparently, the classic villains, first introduced in Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor era, actually prefer to be called “Homo Aqua,” and in the context of this story may not actually be the bad guys at all. Granted, the name shift kind of makes sense—-dumb sense, but sense!—if only as a sort of in-universe reason to explain why this particular flavor of the creatures has slightly more humanoid features than the decidedly scalier versions we last saw in

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