Oh to be a vegetable growing in a field on a dewy morning

If you'd like I can give you a lobotomy and spritz you a few times a day

Vegetables are leading a better life than your average warehouse worker

Yeah nothing like waking up soggy and slowly rotting

My daily routine

Moisturized, in your lane,

That was the first episode of Doctor Who I had ever watched, and that scene was so disturbing and nonsensical that I never watched another episode of the show ever again. I understand that it's a really good show, but it's just too weird for me.

When you expect it. I was at a grocery chain here in Canada called 'Superstore' and I was walking by the misters when they went off, but the one beside me didn't. Like an idiot I moved in and examined the mister.

Nothing happened. I turned away and started looking at products in the other direction.

That is when whatever had dried on the nozel had partially shot off and hit me in the back along with the mister soaked my back from my head to the top of the butt of my pants.

It was -43°C outside.

Shows that don't have a fixed endpoint have this issue where the quality of an episode can vary quite a lot depending upon who the writer is. Doctor Who has this problem worse than most, and I think it's because their showrunners themselves suck. I think this particular showrunner (Chibnall?) had an obsession with faces, because there were several episodes during his time where something weird was done with a face, like sticking it on sheet like they do here. (I don't have a problem with a face on a sheet. I do have a problem with that face talking without a throat or lungs!)

Doctor Who does go balls-to-the-wall with the Rule of Cool, and sometimes they can pull it off, but often not IMO (e.g. the face on the sheet). I think the old Doctor Who is much better, but the pacing on it was much slower because they usually didn't try to cram the entire story into one or two episodes. It's so slow, though, it would bore modern audiences to death. I like it because there is a lot more dialog and the story is allowed to grow over the course of 4-6 episodes. There was much more suspense because they had an incredibly low budget for special effects. It could just be nostalgia, but I think the stories were much better, too. In a cheesy sci-fi B-movie kind of way, at least.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I will definitely add the older series to my watch queue.

I mean... the vegetables in the store are corpses. They were plants, and then they were cut away, and now they're dying.

You might as well say "I bet the chicken breast feels so snug in its vacuum-sealed styrofoam tray thing". And I bet some of you would 😛

I'm not saying don't anthropomorphize stuff, and I'm not saying there can't be whimsy, I love the whimsy! But in this case the lettuce was alive, but the lettuce under the mister isn't. That's why they're misting it.

oh yes, to have cold water sprayed on my dismembered corpse, how "refreshing".

*narrator*

...But they didn't...

I am pretty sure it also makes the produce rot faster, but I don't have the source for that right now

SHUT UP GET OUT OF MY HEAD

This is your reminder that misters don’t preserve freshness. Depending on the food they actually accelerate rot. The grocery stores use them because they add weight to the produce so they can charge you more.

This was actually during the first Russell T. Davies era of the show. Cassandra (sheet face) only shows up a couple times but I can't stand when she's on screen.

I thought it was because shiny = sales