Re: Torchwood - Sleeper spoilers

"peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Richard Evans wrote:
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>> peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>Richard Evans wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>> A metaphor only compares different things when used as a figure of
>> speech. In this context it's:
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>> "An idea or image that stands for something else."
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>    Yeah.  That's kind of my point.  I think in this case it was an idea
or 
> image that stood for itself.
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>    I am just saying I think the difference is so thin it doesn't even 
> count as a difference.
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>>>  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.

Just because the artist doesn't see nor intended a metaphor doesn't
prevent 
one from being seen by the audience. That's why Art is a metaphor. Some 
people see a the comparison from the symbol to that being symbolized--and 
some won't. That's why "art" is subjective.

-- Ken from Chicago