The Milgrim-esque obeying of authority, could we not have seen one solider who was harvesting the school kids actually protesting?
My husband pointed that out, too; those were some incredibly loyal soldiers! You'd think a few of them would have broken ranks ...
I think that one of the main reasons why I didn't seem to mind the finale as much as a lot of people is because I saw a lot of hope along with the darkness; ultimately the mood that I was left with, at the end, was one of survival against the odds, rather than all bleakness all the time. In spite of the dark parts, we also saw a lot of the best in the human spirit -- Ianto's sister's husband mobilizing the crowd for a battle they can't hope to win, Frobisher's assistant blowing the lid off the government conspiracy, Rhys and Gwen pulling together rather than apart. I'm willing to forgive them for the aliens (who really make NO sense at all) being little more than a plot device for the humans to push back against, because I really liked what they took and did with the human drama against that backdrop.
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My husband pointed that out, too; those were some incredibly loyal soldiers! You'd think a few of them would have broken ranks ...
I think that one of the main reasons why I didn't seem to mind the finale as much as a lot of people is because I saw a lot of hope along with the darkness; ultimately the mood that I was left with, at the end, was one of survival against the odds, rather than all bleakness all the time. In spite of the dark parts, we also saw a lot of the best in the human spirit -- Ianto's sister's husband mobilizing the crowd for a battle they can't hope to win, Frobisher's assistant blowing the lid off the government conspiracy, Rhys and Gwen pulling together rather than apart. I'm willing to forgive them for the aliens (who really make NO sense at all) being little more than a plot device for the humans to push back against, because I really liked what they took and did with the human drama against that backdrop.
YMMV, of course ...