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As the Torchwood team is reunited, Jack realizes he's the most vulnerable man on Earth. A flight to the United States turns into a desperate battle for survival.
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I'm coming late to these episodes as they air in America in what are the early hours of the morning here; I'm somewhat surprised that it appears that none of our American members are watching them (although it could be that they're simply too scared to make a new thread?
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A few things stand out in this episode - the factions, the realisation of what unending life means for the human race and public opinion towards Bill Pullman's character. I'll start with my last point and go backwards.
Not a huge amount can be said for Oswald Danes other than he appears to be a great manipulator. It's obvious from the series preview at the end of the UK episode one that he becomes the figurehead for a cult based around the death of death and he seems to be well on his way, turning public opinion with a series of appearances on talk shows. The big question is whether he's being used without him knowing it.
Unending life, it's been shown, has many problems. The obvious one is the population boom, which brings with it concerns over space and resources. This episode brought to light the fact that those who should have died from infections are, instead, incubating diseases, many of which will eventually become resistant to antibiotics. Whilst it's not real concern if you can't die, what would happen if life suddenly came back?
It was also discovered that, despite human life continuing regardless of the state of the body, aging hasn't stopped - what will happen in two hundred years? Five hundred? A thousand?
Finally, the factions! This is where it starts to get interesting. We have a faction, which we know has agents within the C.I.A., that wants to wipe out Torchwood and specifically Capt. Jack. So what is this faction? Are they aliens in human guise who have slowly weaved their way into society over decades? We know that Torchwood exists within the Doctor Who universe, so anything could happen! What we can be sure about is that they have power (a director within the C.I.A. gives the impression of being threatened by them, and they also wired $150,000 from China to two accounts) and technology (the director had a second mobile phone, which had a strange system installed. As these things go, it's probably of alien make).
Lot's of questions!
Oh, a fourth thing: where did Jack go after the CoE series? He avoided Gwen's question on the plane.
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I'm coming late to these episodes as they air in America in what are the early hours of the morning here; I'm somewhat surprised that it appears that none of our American members are watching them (although it could be that they're simply too scared to make a new thread?
)!---
A few things stand out in this episode - the factions, the realisation of what unending life means for the human race and public opinion towards Bill Pullman's character. I'll start with my last point and go backwards.
Not a huge amount can be said for Oswald Danes other than he appears to be a great manipulator. It's obvious from the series preview at the end of the UK episode one that he becomes the figurehead for a cult based around the death of death and he seems to be well on his way, turning public opinion with a series of appearances on talk shows. The big question is whether he's being used without him knowing it.
Unending life, it's been shown, has many problems. The obvious one is the population boom, which brings with it concerns over space and resources. This episode brought to light the fact that those who should have died from infections are, instead, incubating diseases, many of which will eventually become resistant to antibiotics. Whilst it's not real concern if you can't die, what would happen if life suddenly came back?
It was also discovered that, despite human life continuing regardless of the state of the body, aging hasn't stopped - what will happen in two hundred years? Five hundred? A thousand?
Finally, the factions! This is where it starts to get interesting. We have a faction, which we know has agents within the C.I.A., that wants to wipe out Torchwood and specifically Capt. Jack. So what is this faction? Are they aliens in human guise who have slowly weaved their way into society over decades? We know that Torchwood exists within the Doctor Who universe, so anything could happen! What we can be sure about is that they have power (a director within the C.I.A. gives the impression of being threatened by them, and they also wired $150,000 from China to two accounts) and technology (the director had a second mobile phone, which had a strange system installed. As these things go, it's probably of alien make).
Lot's of questions!
Oh, a fourth thing: where did Jack go after the CoE series? He avoided Gwen's question on the plane.
