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galadriel1010) wrote2011-03-03 06:44 pm
galadriel1010) wrote2011-03-03 06:44 pm
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In which I am miserable and grieve for Torchwood
I've spent the last year and a half in serious denail about Torchwood. I have Jacks and Iantos all over the place, in varying states of relationship settlement and happiness, different developments of Torchwood, different ways that the 456's visit was dealt with or not. It's been a great place to be, and I could stay there quite happily, hoping that the powers that be would get it and bring Ianto back and bring Torchwood back to Cardiff and I would be able to go back to it and go on with it.
Every single thing that I have seen about Miracle Day has damaged this, because Torchwood is moving on, but that's not... Torchwood. Torchwood was black and silver, dark but with sparkles, happiness and loyalty winning through despite everything. Children of Earth ripped that down and I chose to ignore it. Miracle Day is the show I loved as much as Torchwood was Doctor Who.
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rm's awesome post and essay on grief and mourning for characters (which you should definitely read), I've been back through the spoilery reaction thread I was part of and actually laughed at our reactions. All the shiny shiny hope beforehand, the way we dismissed the rumours of Ianto's demise as ridiculous, the way I got drunk and squeed... the first time I can remember swearing on the internet when it all came crashing down and the denial with which we approached Day 5 (surely it couldn't be that nihilistic?) and then, at the end, the chorus of "they have to bring him back in the next series. They have to see that it makes sense."We were right, and we were wrong. For Torchwood to continue as it was, it made sense for Ianto to come back. But what they did was ended the series in death and desperation...
And now they're starting a new show with the same name. Do I want to be a part of that?
Would you buy a ticket for a boat called The Titanic?
I can't give up hope that we'll get Torchwood back as it was. But I have to let go of how tightly I was holding it and grieve for the fact that I'll probably never see another new episode.
But get over it? Get over Torchwood?
Maybe. About 100 years after people stop writing Sherlock Holmes fanfiction.
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The show may be very good, they have a decent cast, some good writers others than he who shall not be named, but I'm so not interested in another repeat of the creator's favorite mantra "the people in power are irredeemably evil."
Governments do bad things and act in their own interests, politicians don't care at all about regular people. So? Tell me something I don't know. Show me something that I'm not experiencing every day of my life.
I do know one thing, I won't take ten hours of my life to watch something that has been done to death (pun intended) on sci-fi shows already, will inevitably bore and possibly infuriate me, and make me depressed.
I have real life for that.
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I want my sci fi to avoid reality. That's the point, isn't it? If I wanted a show about government, I'd watch "The West Wing" or "To Play the King" or something. And I want it to be about the TW ensemble, not 50% more someone else. That's a lot of what bugged me about "Random Shoes." Eugene was okay, I suppose, but it was all from his POV and didn't really use that POV to tell me more about the team.
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