Oh, you have no idea what a treat it was to See so many handles I hadn’t seen in some time ... likewise, MHGinTN. I hope all’s been well for you and yours.
With this episode we see the demonic power of 'film teaching'. I wonder, how many who watched this episode realized what their minds were swallowing through the eyegate, so carefully arranged to degrade Western moral tradition, the Western taboo structure regarding the sanctity of nascent life if you will?Superintendant Tennison starts our lesson with a 'termination', to end a 'pregnancy and subsequent responsibilities of a child' threat to her independence which is so vital to her career.
To justify this Tennison career, the subsequent story proves to 'us' just how vital is her contribution to 'the society'!
The story unfolds in demonically brilliant fashion, teaching malleable minds that 'terminations' (abortions) such as Tennison used are the better alternative to silencing a child that has made a young woman's dreams of a career 'intolerable' so she too does a termination ... except the child is nearly two by the time this 'other' termination is done via smothering.
To justify this Tennison career, we are introduced to a pedophile who is, at least in his mind, cured of his twisted sexually deviant nature acquired as it was via his own sexual abuse at age five. The fellow cop 'rubes' holding still to the outrage of pedophiles defiling and murdering their victims --murdering their innocence if not their life-- are portrayed carefully as wrong, just wrong at all levels of their reasoning.
Yes, we see why Western civilization as inherited from the Reagan-Thatcher generation is 'antiquated'. All hail the new morality, based as it is on transactional, utilitarian --as reasoned by godless brilliance-- purchase of what the "I" wants. And of course, the progressives who feed this poison to the culture award folks like fellow traveler Merrin for her talented portrayal of this 'new morality'. Thus her beauty and talent are enlisted to bring upon us the 'new age'.
Western Civilization is embracing and dying in the 'god is dead' reasoning supported by this transactional behavior, where there is no ultimate authority of Good and Evil, no Truth by which to measure right and wrong except the situational ethic transaction hallmarked by a sliding scale of moment by moment weighing of what is right and wrong situationally.
Without a doubt, these episodes of Prime Suspect are brillaintly written and acted. Helen Mirren is stellar in her portrayal of Superintendent Jane Tennison. I doubt even she realizes how she is being used by demonic brilliance, to erode and thus destroy the taboo structure which was vital to Western Civilization strength