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Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

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Vortex - Jul 12, 2009 9:56:50 am PDT #8806 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Me too. I thought him wanting to have time in his box was like time in his room. I hope we weren't telling the character goodbye. If he is DOD property though, I guess they wouldn't just let him go.

I think that it would be funny if each week featured Andy doing some different wacky job in Eureka. Like one week working at Cafe Diem, but getting fired because he refused to serve unhealthy food.


Laura - Jul 12, 2009 10:01:17 am PDT #8807 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Finally watched Eureka! It was a delight. Agree that a continued Andy presence would be nice. He fit in quite well.


Jessica - Jul 12, 2009 10:03:21 am PDT #8808 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I think we'll be seeing Andy again - I mean, where ELSE is the DOD going to send a prototype like him?

SO HAPPY SHOW IS BACK YAY.


amych - Jul 12, 2009 10:08:48 am PDT #8809 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I like Vortex's Andy vision. Whatever he's doing, he's such a perfect addition to Eureka -- want moar!

(Also, have sudden urge to play with Andy/S.A.R.A.H. Sadly, all my bunnies are vidbunnies these days, and vidding a disembodied voice is ... kinda not.)


Strega - Jul 12, 2009 11:28:18 am PDT #8810 of 30001

le nubian -- If Jack had said "we can't use Steven because he's my grandson; let's find a kid who's likely to die soon anyway" he would have been exactly the same as the politicians who exempted their own kids and decided to hand over the low achievers.


le nubian - Jul 12, 2009 11:45:08 am PDT #8811 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I don't think so...

I think there is a difference between using class prejudice and low levels of imagination and problem-solving to deal with a crisis and trying to figure out if it is really appropriate that they use the only child in an entire building who was only there because the government was trying to kill and bribe Captain Jack. If not for the government trying to coerce Jack, his grandson wouldn't have fucking been there in the first place and they would have had to go to a nearby hospital, etc.

Mind you: think this grandson should have been a definite risk, but I don't think he should have been THE one chosen, nor that his mother had to witness his death. The whole thing was completely out of line especially after killing Ianto. I felt the same way about Captain Jack's team's death last season.


le nubian - Jul 12, 2009 11:49:26 am PDT #8812 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

BTW, I think that if someone from the government had been frank with the parents of a very ill child, you probably could have gotten a set of parents to agree to this. But of course that wasn't the point the writers wanted to make.


Laura - Jul 12, 2009 12:16:47 pm PDT #8813 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Torchwood: I don't have a problem with a show going dark in a massive way. My problem is that I wasn't convinced that the characters would act the way presented. For many of the reasons le nubian has mentioned. Grumble. So I have updated my tag to reflect happier times.


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2009 12:39:55 pm PDT #8814 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Where was the logic assuming that the other countries of the world would give up their ten percent of children? How long could the government's complicitness have remained even remotely secret? How could the UK complying have gotten them off the hook? Were the US going to go ahead as well? They were aware of the demands too.

That's my big hole, much bigger than LeN's.


le nubian - Jul 12, 2009 12:56:14 pm PDT #8815 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

yes.

I was wondering where the "show of force" was. Gassing a building, killing 100 people is not going to cut it. I assume we are to believe the other countries were so freaked out by all the kids speaking as one that they feared reprisal.