right...

[ericadawn16]

“What would happen if the entire human race became immortal?”

Let the facepalm, fic and fix its commence!

Comments

[trektotorch.livejournal.com]

Well-so that is the question? I guess we would all be in a real pickle. There most certainly would not be any reason to reproduce otherwise the planet would be overun.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose the baby makes this more personal?

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Yawn! This? Let's see we could have mandatory abortions and sterilizaions, death panels (Sara Palin was right, just not in the same reality as the rest of us) mass executions, whatever.

REalizitcally, no one would do anything. They're not doing anything now and seriously, its going to be catastrophe in the next 50 -100 years if we don't. And given that in RL governments are slow to act, well it would be a mess. There'll be fighting in the streets over food, water, housing.

In TW, this will all be compacted down into 10 weeks of time. Meh.

So that's the BIG message, stop spawning all you breeders. Whatever.

[captaintish]

Hmmm.

Well, I'm guessing by the time the series is over, the situation will be back to normal. Obviously we know humans don't appear to be immortal in any of the futures we've seen on Doctor Who -- and Jack would have mentioned if in the 51st Century, all humans were immortal. So, I'm guessing this is some sort of alien intervention that they'll end up changing back to the status quo.

Oooh, interesting thought -- would this mean that children don't grow up, either?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Yeah, since we know DW, we know nothing happens permanent. I just hope he doesn't undo Jack's immortality somehow...

The children not growing up would be interesting though...like Claudia in the Vampire Chronicles.

[creadigol-lili.livejournal.com]

Just had a throught... could this be the thing Jack says "The 21st century is where everything changes"

Still taking the wait and see approach.

And still there's a part of me at the back of my mind that retconning everything after the end of series 2

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

And still there's a part of me at the back of my mind that retconning everything after the end of series 2

yep

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

I agree!

[zakath-nath.livejournal.com]

I love Doctor Who but I didn't like the first two seasons of Torchwood. However I enjoyed CoE despite its fault (I'm not very attached to the characters, it might explain why I'm not disappointed by what the writer makes of them).

But this next season worries me. Even darker? They've confused "maturity" and "unnecessarily provocative"sometimes.

And the synopsis is... strange, and it reminds me a french light-fantasy book À vos souhaits ("bless you!") by Fabrice Colin. Difficult to take it seriously after reading this book.

Well, you always can be pleasantly surprised but I am pessimistic.