Re: Torchwood: MD 4x05 - The Categories Of Life (Grade/Discuss) SPOILE
They haven't really done much of that, most of society looks the same as before the miracle.
Which is what would likely happen in real life. Life would go on, and people would do whatever they did before Miracle Day, just like people didn't suddenly become a new species after 9/11. (That said, continue to my comment below.)
We have seen to opposing groups Dead is Deaders - introduced and then done away with pretty quickly and the Cult of the Soulless which we know nothing about.
We're only halfway through the story. You act as if you've seen the whole thing already. I saw that Dead is Dead shirt on the guy in the audience during Oswald's speech. And going back to the "society staying the same" argument, the rise of Dead is Dead and Cult of the Soulless, plus the establishment of Oswald Danes as, for want of a better term, a messiah figure - not to mention a new way of categorizing LIFE itself. I think that's some pretty substantial and obvious societal changes.
Everyone in CAT 3 seems to be carrying on as normal. Society is not breaking down or if it is its happening off camera.
You mean other than the decision to sequester millions of people in internment camps? Also, follow the chronology of the story - it's only been about a week so far. Society does not break down that quickly if it has food and water and it's not under attack.
There seems to be no government responses to any of whats happening.
Other than the camps, you mean. And assigning people to figure out how to cope with the healthcare implications. Oh, and coming up with new categories of life, once again. How exactly does a government respond to something like this - invade someone? Especially when the general opinion is actually - in this early stage - that it's a good thing?
Children of Earth did an excellent job of showing the effects of the 456 on society. Probably because it was not faceless, nameless entities that were in charge and we new who the villain was before we were half way through.
And Children of Earth probably would have been better as a 2-hour movie by that rationale. Why do we need to know who the villain is and spoil the fun so early on? I've read 1000-page novels where the questions are left unanswered until the last chapter.
Alex
