This Is For Everyone

[chasingtides]

But especially una___sola who had to deal with my very brief explanation of Torchwood: Season Fail this evening:

kholran has the best summary of Children of Earth. Even if you've never watched Torchwood, if you read this (and have any appreciation for how suspension of disbelief works), you will understand why fans are upset.

Obviously, this includes huge spoilers. On the other hand, I think kholran intelligently addresses why fans are upset. It's not necessarily because of the huge spoilery thing - although that was probably icing on the cake - but because, as kholran put it, we're given a cake or death scenario and it's just not on. Not to mention the gaping plotholes I could drive a tank through. (Seriously? I want to see the story where Gray rides Myfanwy through the streets of Cardiff.)

Also? On a slightly unrelated topic, smallcaps is awesome.

Comments

[smallcaps.livejournal.com]

Hey now what now? Lies! I am merely sufficiently adequate!

[sgteam14283.livejournal.com]

that review was spot on and it really put into words how I feel about the series now... (although I can still feel my blood pressure spike whenever I think the letters RTD)

[ibroketuesday.livejournal.com]

Huh. Torchwood sounds like a crap show.

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

The first two seasons are great. The third season is an unrelated made for TV movie that happens to share some actors with the first two seasons of Torchwood. (Really, Children of Earth is honestly unrelated to Torchwood, Doctor Who, and the Sarah Jane Adventures, otherwise the canon-fail is too great to contemplate. UNIT doesn't know how to deal with aliens! The Doctor doesn't care that 10% of Earth's children will die! No one in Britain has ever seen an alien or a spaceship before! There are no aliens, dinosaurs, or dead bodies in Torchwood's secret base!)

(No, seriously. The first two seasons are kind of addictive and have strange theories about how Supernatural and Torchwood are secretly the same universe and no one can convince me otherwise.)

[siyahsaclikiz.livejournal.com]

I still think if Children of Earth happened to be a completely unrelated miniseries, nothing to do with Torchwood or the Doctor Who universe in general - I would have loved it. Government officials being completely shady and covering their asses before doing anything else, bureaucrats who don't even realize what they're doing initially getting stuck in the middle, the age-old sacrifice-many-for-the-good-of-even more dilemma, and a bunch of other things would have made me a happy viewer. The aliens really were creepy (kudos to the voice actor), the decision making behind closed-to-the-public doors was really uncomfortable as it should have been, and I thought that was great TV. As Torchwood? It sucked big hairy donkey balls. I still don't understand why the hell RTD pushed his previously shelved scifi idea and shoehorned it into Torchwood just for the sake of getting it done. That's the worst thing you can ever do, both to the original story and to the show you're shoehorning it into. Grrr.