Thursday 9 July 2009

Torchwood Series 3 — Children of Earth — Day Four — A Review: … Oh My God!!


9th July, 2009

Good GOD … !

I really hope that Lois Habiba is being prepped up as a replacement.

They’ve killed Ianto

My god’s, they’ve killed Ianto!

Ianto!

And Clement McDonald — this season’s tortured soul — has been killed off, as well! After the life that character’s had, you think a happy ending would be nice!

I don’t think I’ve seen this sort of death rate in a TV science fiction series, since the days of Blake’s 7, I really haven’t.

And that’s at the climax of the penultimate episode; one that’s been more gruesome, more horrific, than the rest of a gruesome series put together.

I also know that, over the course of these episodes, I’ve been frantically texting Cara, an old friend and workmate from my day’s working the bar at the Hutton.

Who — and I’m hoping she won’t mind me saying so — something of a Geekboy’s Poster Girl. Bright, utterly gorgeous, and a rabid Buffy, Doctor Who, and Torchwood fan. (She’s a footie fan as well, but nobody’s perfect! And at, she is 5’11” in her bare feet … I’ve got this thing about gorgeous, tall women, football fans or otherwise!!!)

My point is that we’ve been frantically texting each other, tonight; in sheer disbelief.

Tonight’s episode is moving the plot along at a rapid rate.

What got myself and Cara was a scene about half way through; set in Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, or COBRA, it sees the PM, and the Cabinet discussing what to do about the 456’s demand that the people of Earth hand over 10% of the world’s children. And pretty ruthlessly, at that.

 The cabinet concludes — coldly, mercilessly and quite horribly clinically — that they’ll hand over the children from the bottom 10% of Britain’s schools.

This from an episode that opens with Jack being confronted by Clement and Ianto, about the original 1965 Incident. Which was an emotional one to watch, and gave both character’s some — if not all — of the resolutions they may have needed.

But at, ultimately, the deepest cost someone — anyone — involved with Torchwood can pay.

It’s also an episode that ends with the Cabinet selling out humanity to the 456 …

By seemingly deciding to go with its plans; for what would be the most serious of crimes, in anyone’s book …

Stay tuned, folks.

Day Five will be gruesome …

And big.

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