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I finally finished watching Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Maybe I'm a bit callous at times. I agreed with the government's decision of taking the bottom 10% of the children. I'm not saying it was right. Just that I agreed. Jason said that he and I would have been in that bottom 10%. I'm not entirely certain, unless they were just gathering kids based on their schools, not their actual test grades.
In what seemed to be an average threat from aliens, demanding 10% of the Earth's children, it wasn't. It turned out to be a horrifying, punch in the gut reason. And it still leaves me feeling haunted. I was shocked, frightened and revolted when the aliens admitted the children were nothing more than a means for them to "feel good". I wanted to vomit. A scene that can compel so many emotions in a viewer goes above and beyond what normal television offers.
In the end, I think Captain Jack made the right decision: sacrifice one person who means so much to you, in order to save millions that you don't know. It's not an easy choice. Maybe what made it worse was that the child didn't see it coming. He didn't know his real relationship to Captain Jack, and he didn't know there were aliens in the world. He was a true innocent. Maybe that's why Jack had to run all around the world afterwards, hoping to forget the pain that he caused his daughter and himself.
Maybe I'm a bit callous at times. I agreed with the government's decision of taking the bottom 10% of the children. I'm not saying it was right. Just that I agreed. Jason said that he and I would have been in that bottom 10%. I'm not entirely certain, unless they were just gathering kids based on their schools, not their actual test grades.
In what seemed to be an average threat from aliens, demanding 10% of the Earth's children, it wasn't. It turned out to be a horrifying, punch in the gut reason. And it still leaves me feeling haunted. I was shocked, frightened and revolted when the aliens admitted the children were nothing more than a means for them to "feel good". I wanted to vomit. A scene that can compel so many emotions in a viewer goes above and beyond what normal television offers.
In the end, I think Captain Jack made the right decision: sacrifice one person who means so much to you, in order to save millions that you don't know. It's not an easy choice. Maybe what made it worse was that the child didn't see it coming. He didn't know his real relationship to Captain Jack, and he didn't know there were aliens in the world. He was a true innocent. Maybe that's why Jack had to run all around the world afterwards, hoping to forget the pain that he caused his daughter and himself.