• svdasein@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    This fallls way outside of ten forward, but the absolute king of polarity reversal in really all of scifi is Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who. Yes it’s very old, but you will literally get at least one polarity reversal per story arc. Honestly he’s probably the progenitor of all polarity reversals.

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      11 days ago

      IIRC, Jon Pertwee didn’t like technobabble, so used “reverse the polarity” as his go-to phrase. Funnily enough, he only says “reverse the polarity of the neutron flow” twice! (The Sea Devils & The Five Doctors).

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        11 days ago

        …of the neutron flow yeah. He just plain reversed polarity in general more times than that. He was a professional polarity wrestler :D

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      11 days ago

      I’m reversing the polarity, you’re reversing it back again. We’re confusing the polarity!