TW Children of Earth: Day Five
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I haven't read what anyone else has said about this yet. I didn't get to watch it until very late last night and due to something that happened earlier in the evening, I was already feeling a bit emotional.
This perhaps partly explains my very visceral reaction to this final episode - and it felt like a final episode of the series to me, and in fact I hope it is, because the way I feel at the moment, I don't want to see any more Captain Jack ever. I daresay I'll get over it. As I said, was already feeling pretty emotional and wound up.
Firstly, should say it was a very good episode. The solution was in the end a bit deus ex machina but the sheer horror of it meant that you didn't really notice. This time, RTD stayed true to the spirit of what had gone earlier and gave the darkest, bleakest series finale I've seen on British telly in years. There were individual acts of human heroism, of course - Frobisher's loyal secretary facing up to the prime minister, Gwen and Rhys, Ianto's sister and brother-in-law and the men on the estate trying to defend their children (and I'm tearing up again even as I write this), but overall the behaviour of everyone was pretty appalling.
I started crying when I realised what Frobisher was going to do with that gun and didn't really stop till the episode was over. Give Peter Capaldi a Bafta, someone.
Not sure I can write much more. I was thinking of getting the series on DVD. Maybe I will at some point, but at the moment, I don't think I'd want to watch it again.
One final thing, though: were we supposed to feel sorry for Jack, do you think? Because I don't. All I can think about is his daughter, and how she lost everything - father, child, her whole world - and unlike Jack she can't run away to the stars or wherever he's gone. She's stuck, on earth. Alone.
Bleak, yes. Brilliant, yes. Never, ever thought I'd say that about Torchwood. What a way to go out.
Maybe one day I'll be able to give a more balanced review with a little joke about what Captain John was doing while all this was happening. Just now, I can't.
I haven't read what anyone else has said about this yet. I didn't get to watch it until very late last night and due to something that happened earlier in the evening, I was already feeling a bit emotional.
This perhaps partly explains my very visceral reaction to this final episode - and it felt like a final episode of the series to me, and in fact I hope it is, because the way I feel at the moment, I don't want to see any more Captain Jack ever. I daresay I'll get over it. As I said, was already feeling pretty emotional and wound up.
Firstly, should say it was a very good episode. The solution was in the end a bit deus ex machina but the sheer horror of it meant that you didn't really notice. This time, RTD stayed true to the spirit of what had gone earlier and gave the darkest, bleakest series finale I've seen on British telly in years. There were individual acts of human heroism, of course - Frobisher's loyal secretary facing up to the prime minister, Gwen and Rhys, Ianto's sister and brother-in-law and the men on the estate trying to defend their children (and I'm tearing up again even as I write this), but overall the behaviour of everyone was pretty appalling.
I started crying when I realised what Frobisher was going to do with that gun and didn't really stop till the episode was over. Give Peter Capaldi a Bafta, someone.
Not sure I can write much more. I was thinking of getting the series on DVD. Maybe I will at some point, but at the moment, I don't think I'd want to watch it again.
One final thing, though: were we supposed to feel sorry for Jack, do you think? Because I don't. All I can think about is his daughter, and how she lost everything - father, child, her whole world - and unlike Jack she can't run away to the stars or wherever he's gone. She's stuck, on earth. Alone.
Bleak, yes. Brilliant, yes. Never, ever thought I'd say that about Torchwood. What a way to go out.
Maybe one day I'll be able to give a more balanced review with a little joke about what Captain John was doing while all this was happening. Just now, I can't.
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Date: 2009-07-11 02:28 pm (UTC)So they gave us the technology to build glass you could send a virus through?
And we tooled up to manufacture it within weeks or days?
Plus, there's no way the whole world would just a) let the UK take such a pivotal role or b) roll over just like that.
The Americans would have nuked the building first.
Also, the plot to take kids and give them to aliens would have been all over the internet within minutes.
They wouldn't have been able to get the American quota because so many Americans are armed: they would have had to take the kids away from their homes in dawn raids.
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Date: 2009-07-11 02:48 pm (UTC)How would the information have gotten on the internet in the first place? Torchwood had to infiltrate to find out what was going on. And most other people wouldn't have gotten a camera into that room. I'm sure the American meetings about which kids to give away would have been just as guarded.
And as for Americans and their guns...
How would they have known? Yes there would have been fighting, and a lot of it. But they didn't show what fighting there was in the US. The ep focussed on the British side of things, not the American side.
Now I'd love to see some fics dealing with the after effects of the episode. Or fics dealing with other countries handling the issue.
But those aren't plotholes, that's just plotbunnies.
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Date: 2009-07-11 02:55 pm (UTC)I just didn't find the way they dealt with it convincing.
Getting global agreement for anything takes more than a week.
Someone who knew what was going on would have leaked it.
Maye Frobisher's kids, maybe someone in the military - I'm sure there would have been someone with a conscience among all the people who would have had to have known about it in order to organise such a massive mobilisation.
I don't think there would be many Jewish people who were fooled by the propaganda about "innoculations".
They should have confined it to the UK, then I might have been convinced.