Children of Men: Day Five

[lesbiassparrow]

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.

Comments

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Because in the end, human beings are just as scary as the big bad aliens.

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.