Torchwood: Children of Earth
It was shown from 20 July 2009 on BBC America in the US and Space in Canada. This air date was set to coincide with the launch of BBC America's HD simulcast. It is a mini-series of five episodes, aired on consecutive days.
Children of Earth begins with children coming to a complete stop at exactly the same time across the world. Torchwood investigates as the children begin to chant a message "we are coming".
The 456 are an unnamed aliens with whom the government of the United Kingdom made a deal in 1965; the 456 extorted twelve children in return for a cure to an Earth-bound virus which was about to mutate. They are only known by the frequency they are using, 456 (Pronounced "four five six").
The 456 demand a gift: 10% of Earth's children. One of the Torchwood team, in 1965, gave twelve children to the 456. It is revealed that he gave away the children in exchange for a cure for a new strain of Indonesian flu, which the 456 claimed would kill 25 million people. Meanwhile, the government tries to bargain with the aliens, but the 456 threaten the human race with annihilation if their demand is not met in full. The Prime Minister and his cabinet then decide that the government will offer the 456 those 10% of children whose schools have been placed in the bottom of the British league of school achievement.
To gather the children, the Prime Minister informs the country that some children will receive an inoculation against the effects of the 456, when in actuality these selected children will be given to the aliens. Despite official agreement that children of the political elite will be spared. The Prime Minister tells a senior Home Office civil servant that his daughters will be taken, to convince the public that the government were victims also. This civil servant then kills his family and himself. The army is dispatched to collect the selected children, but the public start to fight back in defense of their children.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 732599 11/4/2009 3:56 AM
Re: Pandemic Prophecy July 2009: Torchwood: Children of Earth
sounds cool man !!! btw it not a cure they traded kids for IT WAS TECHNOLOGY AND POWER
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 732599
No, it was not technology and power; it was originally for a cure to a plague that was set off by the aliens, then the aliens saw we would give in to their pressure, and the children were going to be given over because we were blackmailed.
IRONIC MAN User ID: 808409 (OP) 11/4/2009 4:06 AM
Re: Pandemic Prophecy July 2009: Torchwood: Children of Earth
sounds cool man !!! btw it not a cure they traded kids for IT WAS TECHNOLOGY AND POWER
No, it was not technology and power; it was originally for a cure to a plague that was set off by the aliens, then the aliens saw we would give in to their pressure, and the children were going to be given over because we were blackmailed.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 809427
Correct & thank you.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 810020 11/4/2009 4:38 AM
Re: Pandemic Prophecy July 2009: Torchwood: Children of Earth
Interesting. There was recently a guest on C2C that was mentioning aliens cannot interfere directly in human affairs (the good ones at least). However, they can send "alien souls" into human bodies and apparently this has been happening since the late 40's after the first atomic bombs were dropped (which would fuck up their dimensions and so forth if it kept going on, not to mention destroy the human race. Apparently, a LOT of children now are these alien souls, which means that their previous life karma is considerably less or non-existent compared to most solely human souls. This information was gathered after literally thousands of hypnosis sessions with thousands of clients. Maybe the "children" are trying to wake us up (?)
IRONIC MAN User ID: 808409 (OP) 11/4/2009 3:38 PM
Re: Pandemic Prophecy July 2009: Torchwood: Children of Earth
Interesting. There was recently a guest on C2C that was mentioning aliens cannot interfere directly in human affairs (the good ones at least). However, they can send "alien souls" into human bodies and apparently this has been happening since the late 40's after the first atomic bombs were dropped (which would fuck up their dimensions and so forth if it kept going on, not to mention destroy the human race. Apparently, a LOT of children now are these alien souls, which means that their previous life karma is considerably less or non-existent compared to most solely human souls. This information was gathered after literally thousands of hypnosis sessions with thousands of clients. Maybe the "children" are trying to wake us up (?)
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 810020
Thanks for the interesting post. I am not surprised that "aliens" can send "alien souls" into human bodies. Sounds a bit familiar to me. I am of the mind that many cannot accept the truth, so these entities are seen as ET "aliens". Thanks again.
IRONIC MAN User ID: 808409 (OP) 11/4/2009 4:11 PM
Re: Pandemic Prophecy July 2009: Torchwood: Children of Earth
Same BBC family. Dr. Who and Torchwood are from the same "show universe" and share characters and some story lines.
Dr. Who episode, "New Earth"
"New Earth" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on April 15, 2006. It is the first episode of Series 2 of the revived Doctor Who series.
Synopsis
In the year five billion and twenty-three, after the destruction of the Earth, the Doctor takes Rose to the New Earth. There, he meets an old friend in a mysterious hospital where the Sisters of Plenitude have a cure for everything. But who is lurking in the basement of the hospital? And what has she done with Rose?
Plot
The Doctor uses the TARDIS to take Rose to the farthest point he's ever taken her, to the year five billion and twenty-three in the M87 galaxy. Humanity, after the destruction of the Earth, settled onto a very Earth-like world, called "New Earth", and Rose admires its beauty. The Doctor is summoned to "Ward 26" in a hospital in New New York through his psychic paper, and while he travels to the Ward, gets separated from Rose. In the Ward, the Doctor meets several humanoid feline nuns of the Sisters of Plenitude who are overseeing the patients, all who have incurable maladies but are somehow being cured by the Sisters. The Doctor recognises the Face of Boe, who reached out to "the Lonely God" in order to give him a message before he dies of old age. Meanwhile, Rose is brought to the basement of the hospital, where she is escorted by Chip to meet Lady Cassandra, who has survived from her previous encounter with the Doctor and has been watching the two since they arrived. Chip has been using the hospital facility to care for Cassandra, but Cassandra is suspicious of the methods used in the hospital and requires Rose's help. Rose tricked into stepping into a "psychograft" machine that allows Cassandra to implant her mind into Rose's, leaving her old "body" to die. Cassandra can read Rose's thoughts, and knowing of the Doctor's new form, goes to meet him as "Rose". The Doctor is suspicious of "Rose"'s actions, such as kissing him passionately or having knowledge of the advanced computer systems, but is more concerned on how the hospital can cure the incurable. He and "Rose" discover that the hospital houses hundreds of pods containing artificially-grown humans, forcibly inflicted with numerous diseases, such that the Sisters can discover their cures. The Doctor accuses the Sisters of the atrocity, though they insist it was necessary to deal with the influx of patients. The Doctor, believing that Rose's current actions are also a result of being a test subject, is suddenly knocked unconscious by a perfume gas and wakes up locked in one of the pods. "Rose" then approaches the lead Sister, Matron Casp, demanding payment for her to keep quiet about the hospital secrets, and when she is refused and threatened physically, releases the Doctor and some of the humans as a distraction, but the infected humans further release the others, and a zombie-like attack begins, with those infected trying to attack anyone healthy. The hospital is put into quarantine as the Doctor, "Rose", and the remaining Sisters try to flee the lower levels. To help their escape, Cassandra is able to jump her mind between other bodies, including one of the infected humans, before jumping back to Rose, and learns that those humans feel a strong sense of loneliness of not being able to touch or be touched. Eventually, the Doctor and "Rose" reach Ward 26, and grab all the intravenous medical solutions; emptying them into a disinfectant shower, they are able to spray the mixture onto a group of the infected humans, who within moments become cured of their diseases. The Doctor encourages them to go and spread the cure to the other infected people, and soon, the attack is over. The police arrest the surviving Sisters, while the Face of Boe, who has also been cured, tells the Doctor that the message for him can wait until they meet for the third and final time, and then teleports away.
The Doctor now orders Cassandra out of Rose's body. Cassandra transfers her consciousness to a willing Chip instead, but his cloned body begins to fail, and Cassandra accepts her impending, true death; the New Earth has no place for people like her and Chip.
This episode is set twenty-three years after the events of the 2005 episode "The End of the World", and thirty years prior to the events of the 2007 episode "Gridlock".
In this episode, the ailment that the Duke of Manhattan is dying from, Petrifold Regression — is a disease that turns its victims to stone.
IRONIC MAN User ID: 808409 (OP) 11/4/2009 4:18 PM
Re: Pandemic Prophecy July 2009: Torchwood: Children of Earth
In Greek mythology, Cassandra (Greek "she who entangles men") was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future. However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy, where her combination of deep understanding and powerlessness exemplify the tragic condition of humankind.
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