Face of the Tiger-Survivors season 2

[Matthew]

Been watching this again and it never ceases to amaze me at the complexities of the story-lines they explored (and makes the remake seem even weaker).

In this episode they discover that a man who wanders into their community and after one of the group steal a newspaper cutting from him they discover that in his past he had killed a child with the explanation being he had been suffering from a mental illness. But he now claims that he is cured and everybody seems to buy into it based on how articulate he is.

But then a young boy goes missing and they have to decide what to do.

In the end the boy is found safe and well (he had put himself in quarantine) and it ends with a rather garreolous character who had tried to frame the murderer being despised whilst the man who had killed a child strolls off in to the sunset and is missed by all and sundry.

Now call me old fashioned but surely somebody who has already killed a child for no other reason than he did not like the way he looked at him (the explanation given) needs removing from the gene pool ?

Or am I missing something ?

[edwin]

The assessment by the doctor that he was cured seemed a bit quick to say the least. You would think that a period of probation and no child contact if the community could have spared the resource was the least one would want. Of course Greg was still suffering from his killing of the man after a "trial" and knew he was the one who would have to carry out any sentence. And he was "middle-classish" so was probably all right really.

For me, too big a risk, delenda est!

Such a shame he was the only librarian to survive, my profession would be so useful PA.

[Matthew]

Apr 14, 2012 18:59:17 GMT edwin said:

Such a shame he was the only librarian to survive, my profession would be so useful PA.

I fully agree.

I think that once the intial chaos has passed and people look to settle down and learn new skills then libaries will become important places because they will offer one of the few places that people can come to and actually at least get an idea of what they need to be doing.

Also I do wonder if the moment when the first book, post apoc, gets printed will be judged to be the day that civilisation can be truly said to have returned.

[edwin]

Alas Babylon has the spinster (of course!) librarian really fulfilling herself post-apoc being at the hub of useful knowledge.

[edwin]

Been thinking and wonder,depending how many survivors there were, if I might fortify a Central Library somewhere, set up a still in it and run a nightclub come library. Set up a postal service from it as well and you have a snail mail Internet. This aspect of the idea is what we used to have amongst the intelligensia of Europe. Their desk was a work station and journals were a way of communicating with many people at once.

[edwin]

WELCOME TO THE HOTTEST NIGHTSPOT IN FREEDONIA

THE BIBLIOUSTECH

(when bored on an enquiry desk I would suggest increasing the footfall in the library by standing outside like the barkers for Continental nightclubs with the cry "come inside for pretty ladies, filthy books!")