Review: Survivors 1.5

Quite a strong episode, where we deal with how apocalyptic events spark superstition. It does have some really stupid segments in it, but the acting is good, the idea works well and for the first time it really feels as if our "family" of characters act that way. We also (at last) get a subplot surrounding the Lab.
     Naj stumbles upon a group of campers who are listening to some sort of prophet (pictured) talk about how "He" spoke to him once the silence came. Naj and the preacher talk and he leads them back to the house.
     In the house, Greg is pointing out how Abby won't help the group is she goes looking for Peter every five minutes. She refuses to take the hint. Upstairs, Tom has had sex with Sarah, for some reason. I mean, seriously? This relationship comes smack bang out of nowhere, has little relevance to the plot and is gone by the next episode!
     Anya goes out looking for Naj and they just happen to be at the gate. The preacher (now named John, most likely a reference to the John from Revelation) and the rest end up camping in the house garden. Naj wants them to stay but the rest of the group are realistically skeptical. Al and Sarah are serving tea, and Al notices an almost due pregnant woman, who isn't scared by labour without hospital care. John, meanwhile, displays open signs of talking to voices in his head.
    Abby and Anya talk to John, who reveals that he used to be an architect but now hears the voice of God. He explains that they want to rest in the house until the baby is born. All of the group vote, and the majority vote is that they can stay until the baby is born. To cut a long story short, Anya is forced to reveal her medical credentials when the baby is born and John breaks down. Anya diagnoses him with scizophrenia, and he is forced to accept that that is true, at least after a rampage with the newborn baby. Oh, and Anya, after having slept with Tom some other time, tells him about her lesbianism (well, Bisexuality). He isn't impressed.
     In our subplot, people are being round up by the Scientists, studying them to see why they are immune, and trying out cures. The head scientist shows some questionable ethics. Then, one of the scientists picks up on Abby's video recording, and they rush to try and find her.
    It's certainly entertaining, and these little details regarding human behaviour when faced with an event such as this should be cherished. In my honest opinion theological episodes often blur things up, and sometimes things can be held unsensitively. But this bucked that trend, landing firmly on the side of rationality, with the moral being that you should always keep a clear head in times of trouble. And I like that.

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