Torchwood: Children of Earth DAY FOUR grading thread

[Jim Steele]

**SPOILERS**

What do The 456 want with human children? How deep is Jack's involvement? Will Rhys get to finish his beans? Find out (or not) in part four of this SPECTACULAR TELEVISUAL EVENT in FULL COLOUR.

Spoiler: What you all knew anyway (poll options)

(to make it clear so there's no confusion with the results, the five poll options are JUST the standard Excellent/Above Average/Average/Below Average/Poor grades from top to bottom, with different names because I'm a juvenile little shit)

 

[wamdue]

yep looking forward to this one

 

[ITL]

Will Rhys get to finish his beans?

I'm hoping that The Beans Of Rhys get to play a pivotal role - maybe some opportune pumping could save the day in a strange and bizarre inversion of the Slitheen's potent botty-burps that we all love to hate? Or something.

RHYS' ARSE FTW!!

 

[Jim Steele]

RHYS' ARSE FTW!!

If ANYTHING can top Ianto saving the day in a hard hat/safety vest, that would surely be it!

PS: Please don't read anything into the apparent implication that I equate ultimate satisfaction with employing the services of a prostitute.

I live in Edinburgh, for a start. There's nothing remotely "satisfactory" about toothless Leith ho's.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

My main question at the moment is thus: how powerful/influential are the 456? I mean, a alien comes to town and sits in a specially constructed atmospheric tank which it clearly needs in order to function and survive. It then asks for 10% of the Earth's children (personally I'd hand them over - just take all the little shits that populate Newport to make up the numbers). This is clearly A Bad Thing as far as Frobisher/everyone else is concerned. So, just how unfeasible is smashing open that tank with a sturdy axe and then unloading all manner of bullet-shaped death if the 456 acts up when we won't hand over 10% of the planet's kids wrapped up with a pretty bow?

Or does this go beyond anything else? Does the 456 have some juicy goss on the planet we don't know about, like some dirty, illegitimate photos, that they will publish to the world if we don't cough up? If so, do not give in to blackmail, John - if it knocks Jackson off the front pages, it can only be a good thing.

Not sure where all of that came from.

 

[Flibble]

I think it's pretty obvious that Jack will be going into that tank, but whether it's today or tomorrow remains to be seen!

 

[Captain Shaw]

My main question at the moment is thus: how powerful/influential are the 456? I mean, a alien comes to town and sits in a specially constructed atmospheric tank which it clearly needs in order to function and survive. It then asks for 10% of the Earth's children (personally I'd hand them over - just take all the little shits that populate Newport to make up the numbers). This is clearly A Bad Thing as far as Frobisher/everyone else is concerned. So, just how unfeasible is smashing open that tank with a sturdy axe and then unloading all manner of bullet-shaped death if the 456 acts up when we won't hand over 10% of the planet's kids wrapped up with a pretty bow?

Or does this go beyond anything else? Does the 456 have some juicy goss on the planet we don't know about, like some dirty, illegitimate photos, that they will publish to the world if we don't cough up? If so, do not give in to blackmail, John - if it knocks Jackson off the front pages, it can only be a good thing.

Not sure where all of that came from.

I have a question
Would aliens and kidnapping 10% of the worlds children be enough to knock Jackson off the front page.

 

[Count Zero]

I like your ideas, HappyDayRiot. I suspect the 456 have a bit more in store than blackmail (I'm thinking powerful weapons or the ability to take all children if they wanted or some such thing). At least I hope so and that the UK government wouldn't risk all this and order people killed just to cover their arses.
I wonder how they're going to resolve this with only two episodes left. And RTD said we would see the downfall of Western civilisation. They better get started on this.

 

[Captain Shaw]

At least I hope so and that the UK government wouldn't risk all this and order people killed just to cover their arses.

Which ever party is in power i would not put it past them to do this to cover there arses

RTD said we would see the downfall of Western civilisation. They better get started on this.

If you are a Daily fail reader you think it all ready has

 

[The Badger]

So, just how unfeasible is smashing open that tank with a sturdy axe and then unloading all manner of bullet-shaped death if the 456 acts up when we won't hand over 10% of the planet's kids wrapped up with a pretty bow?

Just a wild guess, but unless there's only one 456 in existence, the rest might be a bit miffed at the state sponsored murder of there ambassador. There may be diplomatic repercussions of some sort.

 

[Captain Shaw]

So, just how unfeasible is smashing open that tank with a sturdy axe and then unloading all manner of bullet-shaped death if the 456 acts up when we won't hand over 10% of the planet's kids wrapped up with a pretty bow?

Just a wild guess, but unless there's only one 456 in existence, the rest might be a bit miffed at the state sponsored murder of there ambassador. There may be diplomatic repercussions of some sort.

Worried we would get a strongly worded letter.

 

[Starkers]

The 456 have the power to make every child on earth stop...I don't think bullets are gonna manage it...

 

[HappyDayRiot]

So, just how unfeasible is smashing open that tank with a sturdy axe and then unloading all manner of bullet-shaped death if the 456 acts up when we won't hand over 10% of the planet's kids wrapped up with a pretty bow?

Just a wild guess, but unless there's only one 456 in existence, the rest might be a bit miffed at the state sponsored murder of there ambassador. There may be diplomatic repercussions of some sort.

Worried we would get a strongly worded letter.

Worse - what if that letter is sent to Points of View?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Under 10 minutes to go. I don't think I've been this excited about a TV show in a long time.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

That depends. This is some sort of biological control, and I'd even wager it's related to the technology used by the Sycorax to get a good chunk of people up on their rooves. That is to say, whatever 456 is doing, they may not be able to get the kids to walk into traffic or the nearest body of water or something. If they did, why wouldn't they just get all the kids to march right into their spaceships in the first place?

Mark

 

[Bob The Skutter]

All I can say now is, Ianto! Noooooo!

 

[Lonemagpie]

8/10 again. Still great - I do wonder if there can actually be a series 4, though, cos there's going to be nobody fucking left!

Gratuitous X Files knockoff as well, when they thought of using a vaccination as a cover story for alien abductions... Really noticed the score - in a good way - for the first time as well. Will have to get the soundtrack.

And the DVD when it comes out on Monday, even though I haven't got season 2 yet.

 

[matthunter]

Shit, the spoilers were right... fucking shipping the DVD before the live broadcasts were over, arseholes.

Even then I was still holding out for Jack's kiss to do something - it did in Series 1, but then having him repeat the event that often would cheapen things.



Bloody good show, still... and if Spooks has shown us anything it's that you can put the characters through this sort of thing and still go on.

The "Make Agent Johnson a new TW recruit" nonsense is a bit less nonsense now... but I wish the actress was a bit better if they're going that route.

GallifreyBase is gonna have a fucking meltdown.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Good lord.

Ianto.

 

[Jax]

Arm the nukes, load the guns...we are going to war

Excellent TV.