Torchwood: Children of Earth: Difference between revisions

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* [[Action Girl]]: Alice Carter and Gwen Cooper have their moments, but of course the prize goes to Agent Johnson.

* [[Action Mom]]: Alice sticks a long kitchen knife in her belt -- and moments later knocks out a kevlar-clad soldier -- the instant she thinks her child is in danger.

* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: An important plot point, as it's a clue the aliens have been to Earth -- and specifically the United Kingdom -- before. Jack suggests the aliens might simply be speaking the most common language on Earth, but Ianto points out that's actually Mandarin Chinese.

** Gwen pistol-whips a fake ambulance officer, next to a poster warning of the consequences of assaulting ambulance officers.

** Soldiers kick down the bedroom door of Ianto's brother-in-law and demand to know where he is.

** The whole scene where Gwen and Rhys are disguised as undertakers.

** When Gwen gets Clem out of jail, there's an anti-drug ad on the wall.

** Another problem is with their logic that if people accept that {{spoiler|children}} ''are dying of natural causes'', they won't mind if aliens took them from them, which they consider almost identical. Nevermind {{spoiler|maternal instinct}} and having {{spoiler|your child}} plucked out of your hands, literally, by the state or some aliens, is completely different than being plucked by death, with {{spoiler|the parents}} being unable to stop it or fight it.

* [[Invasion of the Baby Snatchers]]: {{spoiler|The 456}}.

* [[Irony]]: Alice threatens Johnson with the vengeance of Jack Harkness if {{spoiler|her child is harmed}}, only to have Jack do it instead.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Well, considering their actions across the whole mini, the entire UK government getting off with anything less than being publically lynched could be considered this. But specifically, there is also Bridget Spears, Frobisher's assistant who looks like she'll be coming out of the series smelling roses, despite being just as loathsome as the rest of her colleagues.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Alice threatens to kill Johnson if she harms her child, and even though the latter is a [[Badass]] [[Action Girl]] she takes this threat seriously.

* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: People are willing to accede to the 456's demands as long as it's not {{spoiler|''their'' children}} being handed over, or {{spoiler|someone they know}}. {{spoiler|Children}} are even referred to as "units" by the Cabinet.

* [[Mood Dissonance]]: 456 hisses, thrashes against the sides of its container and projectile-vomits green goo, yet speaks in the deep, calm voice of its translator. Those listening are noticeably spooked.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Lois Habiba. The third series drew in a lot of new viewers and the producers seemed to have anticipated this. Lois was used to explain the origins of Torchwood to anyone who hadn't seen the first two series.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: Peter Capaldi is best known for playing [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[Anti-Hero]] Malcolm Tucker in ''[[The Thick of It]]'' -- a man with no scruples or shame over the corrupt government he works for. In ''Children Of Earth'' he plays John Frobisher, a [[Butt Monkey]] [[Anti-Villain]] who is so ashamed of his governments' acts he {{spoiler|commits suicide after murdering his family}} to spare his family from {{spoiler|being turned over to the 456}}. The two characters are polar opposites.

* [[Please Don't Leave Me]]: Jack to {{spoiler|Ianto}}.

* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The 456's "message". This was also used against them in the end.

* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Apparently, Gwen and Rhys have been using the Torchwood camera contact lenses for "fun". Yes, ''this'' kind of fun.

* [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]: The whole army vs. its people was utterly ''useless'', as would have been {{spoiler|handling the children to the aliens}}, or worse, ''not handling them''.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Alice now looks older than her father Jack.

* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: Jack is 'killed' so he can be cut open and a bomb hidden inside his body, in order to destroy both him and the Torchwood Hub.

 

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