Children of Men: Day Five
Jul. 24th, 2009 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
NOooooooo. Do not let the government do it! Better to go down fighting - you know the 456 will be back again. And again. THEY'RE JUNKIES. THAT'S WHAT JUNKIES DOOOOOO.
In conclusion: Send the files! It would be better to die as a species than kill off the weakest members of your society like that.
ETA: I can't believe the PM is really pushing for Frobisher's kids. DO YOU NOT THINK THIS WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU? EVEN THE WORM TURNS SOMETIMES.
ETA 2: Frobisher! Oh my bloody god. This show certainly isn't scared of going dark. Just when you think it can't get worse, it does.
ETA 3: YES YOU DO HAVE A CHOICE. IT'S JUST FUCKING EASIER TO THINK OTHERWISE. AND IT ALLOWS YOU TO FORGIVE YOURSELF AFTERWARDS.
ETA 4: If these episodes have taught me anything, then it has taught me that a) Torchwood is useless and b) Captain Jack is all talk but is also useless.
ETA 5: I HATE YOU JACK. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FUCKING MANPAIN AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT.
ETA 6: Jack? Eternity as the Face of Boe is what you deserve. If only that horrible woman in the cabinet could be there with you.
I am not sure I can watch this any longer. For real.
This is perhaps the darkest and best SciFi I have ever seen. It's unspeakably horrible and brilliant and marvellous.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:44 am (UTC)The first time I watched Day Five, I shook, literally, through the whole damn thing. It just kept getting more and more horrifying. I mean, I was a wreck anyway after Ianto dying, I probably should have waited longer to watch it. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it for three weeks. I gotta say though, Jack Harkness is now officially one of my all time favorite fictional characters.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:51 am (UTC)This may well be the most painful thing I have ever watched.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:54 am (UTC)That Prime Minister was REPTILIAN. And that cow that is all "Oh, I'll be taking charge of a lot of things from now on" was JUST AS BAD. They have you on video too, you bitch! Argh.
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Date: 2009-07-25 02:58 am (UTC)I HAVE NEVER HATED FICTIONAL CHARACTERS SO MUCH. And I am glad Ianto died because no one should have to watch this happen to anyone.
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-25 03:03 am (UTC)But he is at the end of list of other people. I've never seen so much innocuous looking evil on the screen at once. RTD must have spent a lot of time watching documentaries on the Nazis for this one.
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:15 am (UTC)And who'd have ever believed it would be Torchwood that did this? I loved the show, and I find it hard to believe.
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:24 am (UTC)And, yes, if someone had told me before this that Torchwood was capable of doing this, I would have laughed at them. But, even though I never want to see this again, I want to buy the DVDs. Does that make sense?
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-25 03:54 am (UTC)I wish that Dekker guy would have died. How unfair is it that HE was the only one from Thames House to live?? HIM and not Ianto!
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Date: 2009-07-25 04:05 am (UTC)(Also: I have been watching Spooks/MI-5 and a mad virus would be a great relief for Tom Quinn and Lucas Shaw's manpain. They'd probably welcome it.)
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Date: 2009-07-25 11:03 am (UTC)I like Jack but I've always thought him a very ineffectual leader. Season 1 of Torchwood always bothered me because he never seemed to step up and really lead his team. Whether that was intentional or just how I percieved it, I don't know. So I wasn't really surprised to see him do a bunk at the end.
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Date: 2009-07-25 07:34 pm (UTC)Yes. They weren't shy about just piling it on - you kept thinking that someone would say something -anything - but it never happened. Not even when they discovered that essentially they were shipping the kids off to be drugs. Which means that the 456 clearly would keep coming back and they'd be doing this over and over.
I like Jack but I've always thought him a very ineffectual leader.
He's always just got by on charm and bravado. And then with this one you see what an utter bastard he has been (handing over the initial 12, for one) and is. Which was brilliant - he's supposed to be the hero but he always ends up sacrificing someone else, not himself.
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Date: 2009-07-26 04:35 am (UTC)Curse you for tricking me with your whiles! *shakes fist angrily*
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