0048. Photo diary and 'Children of Earth'
Looks like I haven't been on livejournal for well over a week. Ooops... It's not even like anything very special had happened, so I'm just doing a photo post of the last couple of weeks
^Sunday 5th July Didn't have the best Aikido Club Practise... I was glad to go back home.^
^Monday 6th July These flowers on the ground outside of our house looked like stars! :)^
^Tuesday 7th July Strange vegetables for sale at the shop next to where I work.^
^Wednesday 8th July Saw this awesome poster in Sedgley. Alan Rickman!!! <3<3^
^Thursday 9th July A silly hippie van in Wolverhampton.^
^Friday 10th July One of my colleagues at my volunteering place have this EPIC tea cup (the one on the left is a normal size cup). He actually needs two teabags for it :D^
^Saturday 11th July Matt's sister Rachel had a housewarming party in Manchester. We played mölkky, which turned out to be really popular. :)^
^Sunday 12th July We got a new tv and Pringle loves to sit on the empty box. :D^
^Monday 13th July Lucky is still an Evil Bitch from Hell.^
^Tuesday 14th July I saw a rainbow in Wolverhampton.^
I finally watched Torchwood - Children of Earth this week. Quite honestly I don't know what to say... I'm clearly way too sensitive; for some reason those five episodes had a bigger effect on me than hardly any (fictional) tv I've ever seen. It left me in such a state it's completely absurd - I was crying and shaking and very, very annoyed. Poor Matt for having to put up with me...
I had doubts beforehand - how could Torchwood work with just three persons?! I still miss Toshiko and Owen, but I also have to say this was possibly the best of all the Torchwood series. There was suspense, action, fun moments, weird moments, fangirly bits, hearts breaking...
At first the children were seriously creeping me out, later on I just felt bad for them (for children..!! :O). What affected me so much were all the parallels to the real world, the way Britain is actually like; there were so many similarities it was downright freaky and disgusting. The way the politicians were acting - I could seem them doing just that. The way they selected the 10 % of the kids made me completely flip over, and yet I could totally see the government trying to see that in real life, too (minus the aliens :P) - they don't care about people, only about themselves and their own families. And it's happening now - there are people living on the streets, people living in unsuitable housing, people having to choose between eating or heating their house, people getting sick as a result of that, people just being let down by the government while MPs are lining their own pockets, screwing tax payers over and caring fuck all about anything. The ending was so much like real life, too, with (most of the) politicians getting away with everything they've done, blaming it on one person (in this case the prime minister). It made me so angry that they gave the impression they were never going to release the videos Torchwood recorded, never letting people know what the politicians were willing to do. Especially that one woman - THE BITCH I WANTED TO STRANGLE SO MANY TIMES - who came up with the idea of failing schools. In my eyes she was made look like a semi "hero" in the end, saying she would publish the tapes of the prime minister. Bet she would do everything to hide the tapes where she was saying all those disgusting things and treating people like insects with no rights, like they were worth nothing. And yet that's exactly what would happen, because you couldn't end the corruption within politics. They would be completely happy to make people like Captain Jack, who was trying to help, suffer, having to sacrifice his own family.
I think it's pretty safe to say that I don't like the government, given that a fictional tv show made me feel like this. It's certainly not often that the "good guys" don't win on tv. I definitely was NOT expecting it to end like that. Not with Jack having to leave, losing so much.. I'm still devastated they killed Ianto - he will be sorely missed. The bit about Gwen reasoning why the Doctor doesn't always turn up when he would be needed was pretty hard hitting, too, IMO.
It made me think what I'd do if I was in those people's shoes. While I wouldn't want my family and loved ones to get hurt, I also couldn't have millions of people killed just to save them. I'd probably do what Frobisher ended up doing. (That was also a pretty scary moment. I wasn't expecting things to get quite *that* dark... *shivers*)
To put it briefly, it was an EXCELLENT little series, some of the best tv I've ever seen (and Jack & Ianto were officially a couple!! *glee*), but I couldn't watch stuff like that too often. I'm just too sensitive. For the most part, I watch tv shows to escape the reality, not to return to it over and over again and be reminded how corrupt and full of shit this world is.
^Sunday 5th July Didn't have the best Aikido Club Practise... I was glad to go back home.^
^Monday 6th July These flowers on the ground outside of our house looked like stars! :)^
^Tuesday 7th July Strange vegetables for sale at the shop next to where I work.^
^Wednesday 8th July Saw this awesome poster in Sedgley. Alan Rickman!!! <3<3^
^Thursday 9th July A silly hippie van in Wolverhampton.^
^Friday 10th July One of my colleagues at my volunteering place have this EPIC tea cup (the one on the left is a normal size cup). He actually needs two teabags for it :D^
^Saturday 11th July Matt's sister Rachel had a housewarming party in Manchester. We played mölkky, which turned out to be really popular. :)^
^Sunday 12th July We got a new tv and Pringle loves to sit on the empty box. :D^
^Monday 13th July Lucky is still an Evil Bitch from Hell.^
^Tuesday 14th July I saw a rainbow in Wolverhampton.^
I finally watched Torchwood - Children of Earth this week. Quite honestly I don't know what to say... I'm clearly way too sensitive; for some reason those five episodes had a bigger effect on me than hardly any (fictional) tv I've ever seen. It left me in such a state it's completely absurd - I was crying and shaking and very, very annoyed. Poor Matt for having to put up with me...
I had doubts beforehand - how could Torchwood work with just three persons?! I still miss Toshiko and Owen, but I also have to say this was possibly the best of all the Torchwood series. There was suspense, action, fun moments, weird moments, fangirly bits, hearts breaking...
At first the children were seriously creeping me out, later on I just felt bad for them (for children..!! :O). What affected me so much were all the parallels to the real world, the way Britain is actually like; there were so many similarities it was downright freaky and disgusting. The way the politicians were acting - I could seem them doing just that. The way they selected the 10 % of the kids made me completely flip over, and yet I could totally see the government trying to see that in real life, too (minus the aliens :P) - they don't care about people, only about themselves and their own families. And it's happening now - there are people living on the streets, people living in unsuitable housing, people having to choose between eating or heating their house, people getting sick as a result of that, people just being let down by the government while MPs are lining their own pockets, screwing tax payers over and caring fuck all about anything. The ending was so much like real life, too, with (most of the) politicians getting away with everything they've done, blaming it on one person (in this case the prime minister). It made me so angry that they gave the impression they were never going to release the videos Torchwood recorded, never letting people know what the politicians were willing to do. Especially that one woman - THE BITCH I WANTED TO STRANGLE SO MANY TIMES - who came up with the idea of failing schools. In my eyes she was made look like a semi "hero" in the end, saying she would publish the tapes of the prime minister. Bet she would do everything to hide the tapes where she was saying all those disgusting things and treating people like insects with no rights, like they were worth nothing. And yet that's exactly what would happen, because you couldn't end the corruption within politics. They would be completely happy to make people like Captain Jack, who was trying to help, suffer, having to sacrifice his own family.
I think it's pretty safe to say that I don't like the government, given that a fictional tv show made me feel like this. It's certainly not often that the "good guys" don't win on tv. I definitely was NOT expecting it to end like that. Not with Jack having to leave, losing so much.. I'm still devastated they killed Ianto - he will be sorely missed. The bit about Gwen reasoning why the Doctor doesn't always turn up when he would be needed was pretty hard hitting, too, IMO.
It made me think what I'd do if I was in those people's shoes. While I wouldn't want my family and loved ones to get hurt, I also couldn't have millions of people killed just to save them. I'd probably do what Frobisher ended up doing. (That was also a pretty scary moment. I wasn't expecting things to get quite *that* dark... *shivers*)
To put it briefly, it was an EXCELLENT little series, some of the best tv I've ever seen (and Jack & Ianto were officially a couple!! *glee*), but I couldn't watch stuff like that too often. I'm just too sensitive. For the most part, I watch tv shows to escape the reality, not to return to it over and over again and be reminded how corrupt and full of shit this world is.