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I couldn't help thinking about the Torchwood episode "From Out of the Rain", with all the spooky carnival stuff.

Leads in the story are kind of split 70-30 between the "mom" and the "son". Mrs. Worth, ok, she did her thing. But making the kid actually a much older person trapped in a young body that had to pretend to be a little kid seemed a pretty risky proposition for a lead character.

It potentially turns the audience against the character instead of sympathizing. I mean, any mom who's ever bathed their young son would be likely be very offended at finding out he's really some old guy instead. (That's oversimplifying, I realize.) I thought the notion kind of off-putting, myself.

Plotwise, I thought things went pretty well, and many of the characters definitely fit the bill of what I pictured old-fashioned circus freaks to be like.

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rick tornello wrote:How about Benjamin Button?
Never saw it, sorry.
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