Mixed feelings
It was sort of amusing to watch my flist explode just now with the news that Torchwood Series 4 is a go, if only because of the drastically opposite reactions.
Serious mixed feelings here. No surprise for the woman who can never quite seem to be just one thing, right?
I want more and will almost certainly watch it. Several of the things mentioned in the release make me cringe and wonder if they're actually going to just break it more. At least it's not Fox? And thank all Gods it's not going to be a "reboot." I am curious to see where the hell they're going to go with it, even if part of me doesn't want to know.
Why wouldn't I want to know? Because it's so much easier to accept various fix-its as fact when canon is closed. To wit, in much of HP, people don't even bother explaining how Snape's still alive. Or Remus. Or Tonks. Or whomever. Pick your previously-read fix-it and go with it. Or maybe there's a hand-wave of an explanation, or just plain old "DH Disregarded." Of course, those are also much more easily fixed, though Snape and Tonks are far easier than Remus. I can't really buy "Sirius never died" fic though. This may be at least in part due to the fact that I didn't much like him to begin with, but I think it also has to do with the amount of canon that followed OotP. It's also why I wasn't nearly as upset about "Exit Wounds." I came in already well-and-truly spoiled before I saw "Everything Changes." Well, actually, before I even saw "Rose." I knew who was going to die, I just didn't know how, so I didn't let myself get attached in the first place.
And yet I know I'll watch. It may be the sort of "have to watch" like being glued to the proverbial train wreck, but there it is.
Why isn't there a mood icon for "ambivalent"?
(In much more clearly elated news, my autographed "hard copy" of Synesthesia and t-shirt with lyrics from "Making Sound" on it arrived today, weirdly just a little while before this news broke.)
Serious mixed feelings here. No surprise for the woman who can never quite seem to be just one thing, right?
I want more and will almost certainly watch it. Several of the things mentioned in the release make me cringe and wonder if they're actually going to just break it more. At least it's not Fox? And thank all Gods it's not going to be a "reboot." I am curious to see where the hell they're going to go with it, even if part of me doesn't want to know.
Why wouldn't I want to know? Because it's so much easier to accept various fix-its as fact when canon is closed. To wit, in much of HP, people don't even bother explaining how Snape's still alive. Or Remus. Or Tonks. Or whomever. Pick your previously-read fix-it and go with it. Or maybe there's a hand-wave of an explanation, or just plain old "DH Disregarded." Of course, those are also much more easily fixed, though Snape and Tonks are far easier than Remus. I can't really buy "Sirius never died" fic though. This may be at least in part due to the fact that I didn't much like him to begin with, but I think it also has to do with the amount of canon that followed OotP. It's also why I wasn't nearly as upset about "Exit Wounds." I came in already well-and-truly spoiled before I saw "Everything Changes." Well, actually, before I even saw "Rose." I knew who was going to die, I just didn't know how, so I didn't let myself get attached in the first place.
And yet I know I'll watch. It may be the sort of "have to watch" like being glued to the proverbial train wreck, but there it is.
Why isn't there a mood icon for "ambivalent"?
(In much more clearly elated news, my autographed "hard copy" of Synesthesia and t-shirt with lyrics from "Making Sound" on it arrived today, weirdly just a little while before this news broke.)