Imagine that no one dies. Plants and animals continue with their normal life-cycles, but humans don't. They sustain massive injuries, get blown up, stabbed, burned, what have you, but yet they live and live and live without the great surcease of pain. For some this would be a blessing; time granted to them while surgeons repair damaged bodies. To others it would be a living hell no one should ever endure. This is the situation the world finds itself in at the start of … more
I’ll have to confess to missing most of the TORCHWOOD phenomenon. Oh, I’m experienced enough in the world of DOCTOR WHO to know that Russell T. Davies conceived of it there, spun it off from there, and I know it had two seasons and a mini (“Children of Earth”) before it was rescued from relative obscurity by the STARZ (Entertainment) Network stateside and given a new lease on domestic life. One could make the argument that that’s the perfect destination … more