The Vault of Bad Style

[laura_seabrook]

After seeing the following...

...on a friend's post, I needed to write a reply using a term "Message from Fred" which I'd heard years ago in fandom and read in an article (and which I photocopied). Do you think I could find the copy? After a fruitless search using that term, I decided to switch tactics and look for SF writing terms. I found at least a couple of interesting sites on this (if you know of more, please make a comment):

• Being a Glossary of Terms Useful in Critiquing Science Fiction, and
• Turkey City Lexicon

...where I found the following:

• Signal from Fred
  A comic form of the "Dischism" in which the author's subconscious, alarmed by the poor quality of the work, makes unwitting critical comments: "This doesn't make sense." "This is really boring." "This sounds like a bad movie." (Attr. Damon Knight)

...of course in the video, it's obviously the writer of the piece saying  the comments about the previous Doctor, and using the current Doctor's mouth to do so.