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Torchwood!!!!

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differentID · 06/07/2009 21:01

yippee!! on now.

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AitchTwoOh · 10/07/2009 22:56

righto, taht's what i'd thought, but i did wonder why he'd been shot or whatever and why he kept gurning so much.

bronze · 10/07/2009 22:56

Fluffy- I was thinking I'm glad its friday so I have the weekend toget it out of my system before I have to leave my kids at school on monday

Also wondered why they decided to only use school age children

bigmouthstrikesagain · 10/07/2009 22:56

I assumed re. the defeat of the 456 that the transmission killed all the 456 aliens due to the telepathic nature of the broadcast - does that make sense? So I pictured exploding massive lobster things in spaceships or on their planet whatever. And if not then the 456 have the awareness that the earthlings can destroy them if they did come back for the kids.

tbh I need to stop thinking about this and watch something life affirming and lighthearted...

JamieJay · 10/07/2009 22:56

wasn't a baddie and damn everyone got in before me - this thread's to fast!

ReneRusso · 10/07/2009 22:57

well put JamieJay
FluffyBunnyGoneBad, its just a story no?

TheOddOne · 10/07/2009 22:57

BFM - what did you say in your complaint?

cornsilk · 10/07/2009 22:57

He didn't seem too bothered about being shot though really, he was quite laid back about it. Wonder if Lara Croft army woman will be in the new series?

BlackLetterDay · 10/07/2009 22:57

TeamEdward I'm surprised they didn't use free school meals as a criteria, I get the feeling that some people, even on here sometimes, see those of a lower "class" as a sub-species, seperate and distinct from the well to do.

BecauseImWorthIt · 10/07/2009 22:58

But don't you all think that this was just fantastic tv/writing, that it's provoked all this thinking and conversation?

I think it was brilliant. Bleak, shocking and sad - flawed, certainy - but brilliant.

bigmouthstrikesagain · 10/07/2009 22:58

re. school age children - I think that was purely practical as trying to get babies and toddlers to stand still and repeat 'we are coming' etc. could be a bit challenging!

merr · 10/07/2009 22:59

bronze - i thought it was only me! i wondered if babies started pointing to the sky too, or where the cut off point for being a child was!

cornsilk · 10/07/2009 22:59

LOL bigmouth I was wondering about the toddlers. Their mums may have been relieved to get 2 minutes to nip to the loo.

UnquietDad · 10/07/2009 23:00

blackletterday - that was exactly what Russell T Davies had in mind, I'm sure. He's been listening in on his friends' conversations!... In fact, children and the love of them/lack of them/ loss of them has been a recurring theme in his work - ever see Century Falls?

cornsilk · 10/07/2009 23:00

Was RTD from a deprived background?

poorbuthappy · 10/07/2009 23:00

BecauseImWorthIt,
It was almost brilliant...it was almost Torchwood.

But not quite...

FluffyBunnyGoneBad · 10/07/2009 23:01

Maybe they should have used teenagers. Most of them are on another planet anyway.

TheOddOne · 10/07/2009 23:02

Oooh i feel all manipulated and depressed.

bigmouthstrikesagain · 10/07/2009 23:02

Fluffy - can't say the thought of aliens using my children to get high is top of my worries about my children - and the thought that the govt might not always act in our best interest is not a new one - it was emotional manipulation but now the trauma is wearing off I don't feel angry aboput it.

womblingfree · 10/07/2009 23:04

Fluffy - it had to be pre-puberty kids - that's why they reckoned Clem didn't get taken - he was just on the cusp and they couldn't use him

edam · 10/07/2009 23:06

the old 'would you sacrifice one person to save millions of people' debate is valid BUT in Jack's case it wasn't his son, it was his daughter's son. Mind you, any parent who would sacrifice her/his own child would be a monster... (in terms of 21st Century Western values, obv. it was considered OK for Abraham and presumably other figures in times past).

LeonieSoSleepy · 10/07/2009 23:06

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UnquietDad · 10/07/2009 23:06

Interesting question, cornsilk. Not deprived, I think, just not well-off - he grew up in Sketty, a Swansea suburb - don't know what that is like. Then he went to a Swansea comprehensive called Olchfa, which on paper looks like one of the best ones, then to Oxford.

bronze · 10/07/2009 23:07

I'm beginning to feel ok now
babies woken up so not on my own and have 2.5kg of cola bottles to keep me hyper happy

FluffyBunnyGoneBad · 10/07/2009 23:07

I'm not worried, it was just a little sick. It is playing on parents fears, not about aliens but about their children not being at school when they go to collect them. The loss of a child is every parents nightmare.

I didn't word my earlier post very well

TheOddOne · 10/07/2009 23:07

Surely if Planet Earth would have just held 'The Hit' back a bit longer the 456 would have got massive withdrawal symptoms.

Or the munchies.

And why was it worse that they needed them for recreational drugs rather than a drug to keep them alive ?