I'm intrigued by your thoughts on how a hitchhiker can save the day.
To me, Clem didn't look all that happy... he didn't look like a man with an alien releasing endorphins into his system. His rejection by the 456 can be explained by starting puberty and having the wrong hormones to make the host-456 happy.
He has to have a nervous tick, otherwise he wouldn't have been locked up in a mental asylum. He's spent his whole life believing in things that no-one else did. But, like you, I am curious as to what he's talking to on/behind his shoulder, and why his sense of smell is so acute.
Presumably the 456 can tell the proximity of a Hitchhiker, so it's problematic getting one grafted in order to save the day. That's assuming we only need one HitchHiker, that there is only one 456 in the vicinity. If we need more Hitchhikers to defeat... 10% of kid's worth of 456, we're stuffed.
I'd like to think that Torchwood have regular screening of their staff for Hitchhikers, so if Ianto has one it will be small. I don't know if the youth of Hitchhikers is key to defeating the 456. Presumably, Clem's Hitchhiker would have been young, too.
I'm bothered about Hitchhikers saving the day because they were only mentioned on Day One and haven't been mentioned since. Jack and Ianto's family have been mentioned in every episode (I think), and Jack's family are yet to prove vital but we've had constant reminders of their existence. Personally, I see parallel between hitchhikers making humans happy the way young children make the 456 happy... and because it's not angsty RTD won't pursue it. ;-)
I'm thinking that lethal burst of sound will prove key. The only sense we have of the 456 is sound. If they can kill by transmitting it to children they are connected to... and Clem suggests that the link is a lasting one... then maybe sound can be backfired along that link.
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Hitchhikers
Date: 2009-07-10 06:39 pm (UTC)To me, Clem didn't look all that happy... he didn't look like a man with an alien releasing endorphins into his system. His rejection by the 456 can be explained by starting puberty and having the wrong hormones to make the host-456 happy.
He has to have a nervous tick, otherwise he wouldn't have been locked up in a mental asylum. He's spent his whole life believing in things that no-one else did. But, like you, I am curious as to what he's talking to on/behind his shoulder, and why his sense of smell is so acute.
Presumably the 456 can tell the proximity of a Hitchhiker, so it's problematic getting one grafted in order to save the day. That's assuming we only need one HitchHiker, that there is only one 456 in the vicinity. If we need more Hitchhikers to defeat... 10% of kid's worth of 456, we're stuffed.
I'd like to think that Torchwood have regular screening of their staff for Hitchhikers, so if Ianto has one it will be small. I don't know if the youth of Hitchhikers is key to defeating the 456. Presumably, Clem's Hitchhiker would have been young, too.
I'm bothered about Hitchhikers saving the day because they were only mentioned on Day One and haven't been mentioned since. Jack and Ianto's family have been mentioned in every episode (I think), and Jack's family are yet to prove vital but we've had constant reminders of their existence. Personally, I see parallel between hitchhikers making humans happy the way young children make the 456 happy... and because it's not angsty RTD won't pursue it. ;-)
I'm thinking that lethal burst of sound will prove key. The only sense we have of the 456 is sound. If they can kill by transmitting it to children they are connected to... and Clem suggests that the link is a lasting one... then maybe sound can be backfired along that link.
Lisa