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The Last Train

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The Last Train	comment	The Last Train, known as Cruel Earth in Canada, is a six part drama made in 1999 about a diverse group of people struggling to adapt to life in post-apocalyptic Britain after having been accidentally frozen for an indeterminate period of time.
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The Last Train / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
The Last Train / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Occurs a lot in this series. Its more understandable for Jandra who was actively fleeing her abusive husband when she boarded the train in the opening scene but Ian was on his way to the hospital where his wife was giving birth and had a very hard time coming to terms with the death of both during the first couple episodes. Then you have Mick who found out the painful way that his girlfriend and best mate had committed suicide in the back of his van but has no problem moving on and hooking up with Roe.
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The Last Train / int_1122f435	type	Pregnant Hostage
The Last Train / int_1122f435	comment	Pregnant Hostage: Hild kinda inflicts this upon herself. When her own people threaten the main cast with guns she makes herself and her humongous bump into a human shield for them and later leaves with them of her own accord. Her people react as though she has been kidnapped.
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The Last Train / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Last Train / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: In the opening episode a couple of unnamed background characters die whilst the main cast remain remarkably lucky but then about halfway through the series one of our main cast gets killed off and during the last episode it looks like two others might have joined her. Reference to their survival is so vague that some viewers thought they had died.
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The Last Train / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Last Train / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Each episode begins and ends with a voiceover of Anita writing in her diary except for the last episode where she has been carried off by Hild people so Leo provides the voice-over/diary entry in her place.
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The Last Train / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Last Train / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: All the survivors that the group come across take this view mostly because following the apocalypse there seems to have been fertility problems amongst the remaining population with miscarriages and stillborns being the norm.
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The Last Train / int_254bd239	type	Gasoline Lasts Forever
The Last Train / int_254bd239	comment	Gasoline Lasts Forever: Mick's van has been locked up in a garage for decades, but it starts up after being refueled with a barrel of gasoline that has been sitting there for the same amount of time and having the battery recharged with a gas-powered generator. Lampshaded with dialog about how "it will never start" and Mick expounding about how durable the engine is as he starts it up, which doubles as a bit of Product Placement for Mercedes' cargo van.
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The Last Train / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Last Train / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: The only LGBT character mentioned is Jean's son who never makes an appearance having died off screen. But its clear from the conversation where he is mentioned that Jean was very proud and accepting of him and had been looking forward to meeting his new boyfriend.
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The Last Train / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Last Train / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The main cast awaken to find one of these having slept through the apocalypse.
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The Last Train / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
The Last Train / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: The only reason our main cast survive the apocalyptic meteor strike is because Harriet panics and turns them into a bunch of accidental human popsicles. They spend most of the series searching for Ark the place of safety where the nations top scientists where stored as human popsicles.
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The Last Train / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Last Train / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Thinking they've been asleep a few months, the train passengers hit the road to find survivors. As they leave a ruined town, the camera zooms in on a faded grave with the year of death marked 2012...and as the train crashed in 1999, this means they've been frozen for decades.
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The Last Train / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Last Train / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: This kinda happens with Jandra who, as she lies dying, flashes back to the birth of her son Leo. It almost happens at the ned where Hild going into labour occurs just as Mick and Austin appear to be dying.
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The Last Train / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
The Last Train / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: The romance that develops between Mick and Roe is this. They could have just remained good friends and the plot would not have changed at all. It's also a case of comforting the widow when you consider that Mick lost his girlfriend in the meteor strike.
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The Last Train / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
The Last Train / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: The meteor strike causes widespread devastation and death and whilst isolated groups manage to survive by hiding underground or as human popsicles it seems that their descendants suffer from fertility problems and severe difficulty in carrying a child to term. As a result humans as a species are slowly dying.
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The Last Train / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Last Train / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The series is set in Britain which seems to have undergone a societal collapse and possible species extinction following a meteor strike. Presumably, the rest of the world was affected in a similar way but its never confirmed.
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The Last Train / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Last Train / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Thouroughly averted as the first to die is a white male in a suit and the only black guy in the group not only survives but becomes the unofficial leader of the group.
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The Last Train / int_980f0816	type	Adventure Towns
The Last Train / int_980f0816	comment	Adventure Towns: The overall plot involves the survivors journeying to find Ark, a place of safety. At least once an episode they make a pit stop or find someplace to settle down only for something to go wrong.
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The Last Train / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Last Train / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Colin is this. At first, he is merely a coward who contributes nothing of value to the group and has no problem telling lies to gain sympathy and make himself appear more likeable. But as the series goes on he engages in more reprehensible stuff like attempted sexual assault and cowardly leaving others to die out of jealousy yet never suffers any comeuppance for his actions.
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The Last Train / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Last Train / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: The title of the series.
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The Last Train / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
The Last Train / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Happens to one of the main cast halfway through the series.
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The Last Train / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Last Train / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Harriet who starts off obsessed with reaching the military base where her boyfriend was supposed to wait for her then later becomes obsessed in finding Ark the underground research facility where all the human popsicles where stored.
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The Last Train / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
The Last Train / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Austin counts as this as he is always the voice of reason and attempting to quell the frequent arguments that erupt between Ian, Harriet and Mick as well as providing a spot of paternal advice to Leo.
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The Last Train / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Last Train / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: This is Harriet in spades. Most of her dialogue is trying to encourage and persuade the others to join her in finding Ark and whenever the group look to have found someplace safe to settle down she sabotages it. Like poisoning the water supply at the abandoned farm cottage or pushing the cart with all their gear and supplies off a cliff because their almost at Ark and its slowing them down.
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The Last Train / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
The Last Train / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Its slowly revealed that Jandra was fleeing an abusive husband. Made more painful by her children's genuine love for their father and Leo being in denial about the abusive nature of his parents relationship accusing his mother of abandoning their father to die in the meteor strike.
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