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* HarsherInHindsight: This episode displays the effects and consequences of Jack making a difficult sacrifice ([[spoiler:a child]]) to prevent planet Earth from a deadly form of misfortune. [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Three series later]] and Jack has to [[spoiler: make the same sacrifice, except it ends much, much worse on a personal level: his 10-year-old grandson Steven, to drive away the 456, an alien force that wants to take 10% of the Earth's children]]

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* HarsherInHindsight: This episode displays the effects and consequences of Jack making a difficult sacrifice ([[spoiler:a child]]) to prevent planet Earth from a deadly form of misfortune. [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Three series later]] and Jack has to [[spoiler: make the same sacrifice, except it ends much, much worse on a personal level: he had to murder his 10-year-old grandson Steven, to drive away the 456, an alien force that wants to take 10% of the Earth's children]]children to use as living narcotics.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: This episode displays the effects and consequences of Jack making a difficult sacrifice ([[spoiler:a child]]) to prevent planet Earth from a deadly form of misfortune. [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Three series later]] and Jack has to [[spoiler: make the same sacrifice, except it ends much, much worse on a personal level: his 10-year-old grandson Steven, to drive away the 456, an alien force that wants to take 10% of the Earth's children]]
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being an abusive jerk to Jasmine.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine her daughter and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being an abusive jerk to Jasmine.

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* GeniusBonus: The faeries quote W.B. Yeats' poem ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stolen_Child The Stolen Child]]'' in their entreaties to get [[spoiler: Jasmine]] to go with them, [[spoiler: as well as at the end of the episode.]]
-->''Come away, O human child!''
-->''To the waters and the wild''
-->''With a faery, hand in hand.''
-->''For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.''

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* {{Narm}}: While the fairies are creepy enough, when they attack and touch humans, the CGI is... [[SpecialEffectsFailure not fantastic]].
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being an abusive jerk to Jasmine.

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* {{Narm}}: While the fairies are creepy enough, when they attack and touch humans, the CGI is... [[SpecialEffectsFailure not fantastic]].
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being an abusive jerk to Jasmine.Jasmine.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being a jerk to Jasmine.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being a an abusive jerk to Jasmine.
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* {{Narm}}: While the fairies are creepy enough, when they attack and touch humans, the CGI is... [[SpecialEffectsFailure not fantastic]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the Fairies evil demonic things who kill people ForTheEvulz and [[PetTheDog only care about a few humans]], or are they misguided, eternal children who can't understand that what they're doing is wrong and only kill to protect their chosen ones? The episode has evidence for both interpretations.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the Fairies evil demonic things who kill people ForTheEvulz and [[PetTheDog only care about a few humans]], or are they misguided, eternal children who can't understand that what they're doing is wrong and only kill to protect their chosen ones? The episode has evidence for both interpretations.interpretations.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jasmine's mother comes off as this. While she is shown to love Jasmine and care about her, she doesn't try to understand her nearly as much as she could, and she does nothing about her boyfriend being a jerk to Jasmine.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the Fairies evil demonic things who kill people ForTheEvulz and [[PetTheDog only care about a few humans]], or are they misguided, eternal children who can't understand that what they're doing is wrong and only kill to protect their chosen ones? The episode has evidence for both interpretations.

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