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Lots of tonights episode was filmed where I used to work.

Mental seeing the doors of so called Thames house slamming shut and knowing that I used to walk through those doors every day.
 
Gromit said:
Lots of tonights episode was filmed where I used to work.

Mental seeing the doors of so called Thames house slamming shut and knowing that I used to walk through those doors every day.
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Innit!!!
Long time since I've been in CP2, got a bit nostalgic!
 
It's not often I laugh out loud at tv but that stuff about league tables was brilliant.

Second best was the death scene, which was about an inch away from 'the wind beneath my wings' in Beaches.


Where does the blood coming out of ears and nose come from . . . can't quite . . .
 
Not a Torchwood fan but have been watching this run. That scene with the politicians discussing the criteria for choosing the 10% of kids was pure class. That woman, what a bitch - wanted to kill her. :D

Anyone else automatically place their relatives in the scummer 10% when they heard the criterion? I was thinking: there goes my nephews and neices... :D
 
That was genuinely bloody brilliant - who'd have thought crappy old Torchwood could ever be that good. I'll be amazed if Ianto stays dead though and wouldn't be surprised to see hard soldier bitch woman from hell become a regular character - she's ace.
 
Brockway said:
Not a Torchwood fan but have been watching this run. That scene with the politicians discussing the criteria for choosing the 10% of kids was pure class. That woman, what a bitch - wanted to kill her. :D

Anyone else automatically place their relatives in the scummer 10% when they heard the criterion? I was thinking: there goes my nephews and neices... :D
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My daughter's primary school is lovely, but doesn't do so well in league tables; I think she'd be in that 10%. My school as a kid would have been in that 10% without a doubt. Makes you shiver.

(Actually, her school's so small that an individual's results can have a huge effect on the results, so they swing up and down - last year they didn't do well, but this year I think they will do. Bit late, of course).
 
scifisam said:
My daughter's primary school is lovely, but doesn't do so well in league tables; I think she'd be in that 10%. My school as a kid would have been in that 10% without a doubt. Makes you shiver.

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Everyone in my junior school would have be alien fodder. :D
 
treelover said:
a 'class struggle hand grenade' indeed, only the bottom 10% of children would be sacrificed by the NL regime: future 'dolies, addicts, scroungers', to be determined by school league tables, searing incisive stuff, alistair campbell will be fuming....
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Did they say which party was in govt?
 
I was trying to think how this would be resolved. The only obvious thing that came to mind was the Independence Day idea of turning the virus back on them. The boffin feller who climbed in the suit might still be around to twiddle some dials, Peter Capaldi could make the ultimate sacrifice and Jack would obviously be heroic - problem is, we still don't know why they want the children . . .

Evil Woman might even be lured into Torchwood to replace Ianto, probably wishful thinking. I suppose it would be the secretary with the lenses.
 
treelover said:
I posted earlier, John Fay, Liverpool Irish from Kirby, he wrote for Corrie and other Granada projects, like Jimmy Mcgovern he is a socialist and very very principled, i was wondering when he would show his politics, i didn't expect it to be so blatant though: a 'class struggle hand grenade' indeed, only the bottom 10% of children would be sacrificed by the NL regime: future 'dolies, addicts, scroungers', to be determined by school league tables, searing incisive stuff, alistair campbell will be fuming....
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I said to my wife during wednesday's episode "they're going to want more kids, and the politicians will find some way to stick it to the working class and make sure their own little darlings don't get selected, you mark my words!" :D
 
andy2002 said:
That was genuinely bloody brilliant - who'd have thought crappy old Torchwood could ever be that good. I'll be amazed if Ianto stays dead though and wouldn't be surprised to see hard soldier bitch woman from hell become a regular character - she's ace.
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She's got bollocks the size of cannonballs, that one! :eek:
 
Maggot said:
Did they say which party was in govt?
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With the Prime Minister called Green (I mean, can we think of another Prime Minister with a surname that's a colour, hmmm? :)), I think it's fairly obvious, and that odious spinner had the Mandelson sliminess totally down-pat.
 
I think the evil one should stay kinda evil-ish. She is goooooooooood at it. Would ruin her if she turned good....
Bring on Lois!

Ohh I hope Ianto isn't really, proper deaded.
 
London_Calling said:
I was trying to think how this would be resolved. The only obvious thing that came to mind was the Independence Day idea of turning the virus back on them. The boffin feller who climbed in the suit might still be around to twiddle some dials, Peter Capaldi could make the ultimate sacrifice and Jack would obviously be heroic - problem is, we still don't know why they want the children . . .
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Perhaps to graft onto more of their race? Maybe a human graft gives them longevity or disease resistance or something along those lines?
Evil Woman might even be lured into Torchwood to replace Ianto, probably wishful thinking. I suppose it would be the secretary with the lenses.
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Well, they've got Tosh and Owen to replace, so perhaps Torchwood is going to become a bastion of git-'ard womanhood?
 
Strumpet said:
I think the evil one should stay kinda evil-ish. She is goooooooooood at it. Would ruin her if she turned good....
Bring on Lois!

Ohh I hope Ianto isn't really, proper deaded.
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Perhaps they're looking for a character who's a bit of a moral blank slate, like Owen was supposed to be.
 
Stigmata said:
Hmm. Like the parasite Ianto and Jack took out of that guy in the first episode...
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Yeah - that can't be random, can it? I mean, in a bad show it could be, but this is turning out to be a really good show. The comparison to the parasite alien has turned up already with the child grafted to the alien, but there might be more to it.

The director - who has a dead cool name, Euros Lyn - has to be given a lot of credit for how well this is turning out. Little things like the symbolic red clothing and blankets (even if one of the civil servants tonight did look like she was wearing George Galloway's catsuit) do change your perception of a show without you really realising it. Tonight's episode felt very realistic; they didn't for all the shots that could tug at your heart strings, because that would have been overegging it with the subject matter.

Yup, I'm impressed.
 
Brockway said:
Everyone in my junior school would have be alien fodder. :D
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Yeah. Who knew going to a bad school could have repercussions that bad? Even if you're bright and do well personally, going to a bad school means you're one step away from being grafted to an alien's arse. No wonder parents try to fiddle the system! :D
 
In this week of all weeks

So, this inhuman hideous thing wants to get its claws on the children... :hmm:
 
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