Re: Torchwood - Sleeper spoilers

peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Richard Evans wrote:
>
>> I kept thinking: Sleeper cells? Suicide bombers? I wonder if this is a
>> metaphor for some aspect of modern life?
>
>    I think to call it metaphor it would have to be at least slightly 
>different.

A metaphor only compares different things when used as a figure of
speech. In this context it's:

"An idea or image that stands for something else."


>
>   I didn't think they were trying to make a comment so much as just 
>using it because it's genuinely scary.  Scarier still for them because 
>they didn't know themselves.  Not simply the fear that you might be 
>living with a sleeper who would turn in a heartbeat and kill you, but 
>that you yourself might be that sleeper who would start to destroy all 
>that you value.