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Originally Posted by Aries Walker
Well, even though I was ready to throw in the towel on this show last week, I caved and watched this week . . . and now I'm definitely ready to throw in the towel. Don't get me wrong; it was a superior episode to the last few weeks, Melissa McBride was outstanding, and Brighton Sharbino might be the next Dakota Fanning.
The problem I have is with the subject matter. I don't feel comfortable with children being killed - innocent ones murdered, even - in movies and TV. It wasn't always acceptable - Jurassic Park took a fair bit of pre-release criticism because of a rumor that one of the kids would get eaten, for example; now we have Hunger Games, and no one seems to mind. Yes, the plot of this episode made sense for the setting, it was dramatically and thematically justified, and well done, but I don't think that story needed to be told. It's not doing anyone any good.
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Meh, I mentioned a few pages back that TV shows and most movies don't kill off babies or small children very often. However, this show is becoming more and more true to the comics. Nearly this exact situation happened in the comics and the writers know what works.
They made the audience pretty much hate Lizzy to excuse her execution. They almost did away with Judith as well but that would've been overboard at this point in time.
The show has become very serious but it still has some room for improvement.
We'll probably see an example of that next week. I don't have much faith in the next ep just from seeing the previews. It's still the best show on tv right now, though.