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'''''Taken''''' is a [[Science Fiction]] miniseries made in 2002. It's about three families, beginning with Russel Keyes, an Air Force pilot who is abducted by aliens in the middle of a battle; Owen Crawford, an Air Force captain who is the first from the military to see the crashed alien spaceship; and Sally Clarke, a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage who meets a strange man in her shed. Three generations of conflict unfolds from these events, and we, along with the characters, slowly learn the motives behind the abductions that have been going on for almost a century.
Despite the overuse of cliches, it's actually pretty good. It focuses just as much on the characters as on the plot, as we watch them grow from children to adults.
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* [[Alien Invasion]]: Owen fears this is the alien's ultimate plan.
* [[Aliens Made Them Do It]]: {{spoiler|The penultimate goal of the aliens. Not played for humour OR sexiness}}.
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: Characters go from kids with little-to-no personality to protagonists.
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Child Charlie's little play.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Black Eyes Take Warning]]: When half-aliens or aliens disguised as humans use their powers, their eyes go black.
* [[Body Motifs]]: Hands and handprints tend to come up a lot.
* [[Character Development]]: A major focus of the series.
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* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]
* [[Jittercam]]: Subtley, and rarely.
* [[Journey to
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Owen Crawford}}.
* [[Lady Drunk]]: Ann Crawford
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* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Sally tells Jacob this phrase every now and again. Jacob repeats it, first to his mother when she sends him away, and again to his daughter {{spoiler|just before he dies. She repeats it to Ally just before Ally goes with the aliens}}.
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** When Jacob is about to [[Mind Rape]] somebody, he says "Look at me". {{spoiler|When Ally is about to save her dad, she says "Look at me"}}.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Alien technology has a bad habit of inducing this.
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* [[Naked First Impression]]: {{spoiler|Charlie and Lisa first meet when the aliens coerce them into having sex with each other. Much, much less funny and erotic than it sounds}}.
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Averted. At one point Owen holds a discussion with [[Those Two Guys]] while taking a piss.
* [[Not So Stoic]]: Jacob, when he has to leave his mother.
* [[Perma
* [[Pet the Dog]]: While he isn't evil so much as an industrial-grade [[Tin Man]], Jacob's gesture for his dying mother is very heartwarming.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: The aliens need to practice their natural psychic abilities, otherwise they kill humans. Half-humans need to be even more careful - they could accidentally kill themselves.
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* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Ally.
* [[World War II]]: Where it all starts. Russel gets abducted in the middle of an air battle.
* [[Zero
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