Frobisher did what the Jews did at Masada...I saw his viewpoint: given a choice between his daughters being kept alive for all of eternity, being fed upon by aliens who use them as drugs to get high, or death, which would you choose?
The Jews at Masada knew their wives and daughters would become sex slaves to the Romans and their sons would be subjected to the most evil tortures possible before being murdered, what would you do?
Sad thing is Torchwood succeeded, if they had listened in the first place rather than hushing up the 1968 “drug deal” for the 12 children, none of it would have been necessary.
I found the MI5 agent an interesting character. She seemed to be pure evil, killing a fellow MI5 agent because it would help cover up a story, and being willing to kill anyone the gov’t ordered her to, yet in the end she’s the heroine who frees Harkness who then saves the world’s children...so, was she really evil? Or can one do evil things whilst still being a good person?
And Harkness at the end, killing his nephew to save millions of other children, harkens back to Caiaphas’ quote about Jesus. He had to do it, but how can the mother ever forgive her dad for sacrificing her son?
Excellent show...
Ed
Actually, it was his grandson. Also, it wasn't so much a killing as a sacrifice. Furthermore, Steven was chosen because he was convenient - there were no other children in the vicinity - and also as a form of expiation for the "original sin" of turning the first twelve children over to the aliens forty-four years earlier (Captain Jack had been involved then also).
The more you think about it, the more you find that the entire plot is rife with allegory and symbolism.