Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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And I can't wait to re-watch with the knowledge that the aliens are completly fucking high the whole time.
This. It certainly makes the spewing green goo read differently, at the very least.
I'm torn. In a lot of ways, I don't see much of a coming-back for Torchwood, after this. However, I think Jack's still got interesting story ahead of him (Face of Bo, what). And, you know, with someone other than Russel writing it, perhaps 10% less bleak? Might be nice? Jack needs some redemption.
This. It certainly makes the spewing green goo read differently, at the very least.
one of my friends posited that they weren't high, but in withdrawal, which is why the random twitching and spewing.
But that one had a kid to suck. Maybe it was like, um, god help me, chewing old gum until you can get a new piece?
I keep thinking about it a lot. If "can't get it out of your head" is one of your marks of a good story (it is mine) they hit paydirt with this one.
Of all of them, Jack knows something most about the living death that would have been awating those children.
And if you wipe out the 10% from the working class you've arguably killed the next generation of Iantos and Gwens.
I don't use the phrase 'fate worse than death' lightly, but living death as alien drug producer certainly qualifies.
which is why the random twitching and spewing.
Maybe, for the 456, random twitching and spewing is pleasurable.
We were Mineared but good on that one, weren't we?
I think that's what bugs me. Tim has broken my heart many times, but I never felt like he did so unnecessarily. He delivers just enough pain for me to gasp, "You bastard!" hating the tragedy yet never feeling cheated by it. I'm sure Tim would still have left carnage, but I suspect I wouldn't be feeling cheated at the end.
Yeah, cheated is not what I feel. But then, I never do -- so I'm no real guage of that emotion.
wrong thread! ...moving along...
Yeah, back in the Angel days, the darker Tim and Joss made things the better I liked it. That moment closing the wine cellar doors is still the character's zenith IMHO. It was when they went for sentimentality and romance that I had trouble watching.
I'm not really sure if it's the specific character, the tone of the story, the plot, or some combo of all three that makes me enjoy seeing the screws turned on some protagonists' torment (Angel, Jaye Tyler) while being put off by the excessive bleakness inflicted on others (Buffy, the BSG characters).