Part of the fear underlying the story was the rising fear of AIDS, then making itself known. The idea that you couldn't tell who was infected just by looking at them, only blood tests would reveal it, was not lost on the writers. Cleverly, on the wall of the outpost's rec room, where the infamous blood test scene occurs, hangs a WWII era poster warning of the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, showing a cartoon of an exaggeratedly promiscuous woman holding a tag marked "I have VD!" The poster bears the title "THEY AREN'T LABELLED, CHUM", encapsulating the idea of the plot, that dangers can be as destructive as they are hidden.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 09:00