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I dreamed the other night that I went to Vancouver to run and errand, and when I got home, I had a ticket for $3037.30 from the Canadian government for inappropriate border crossing procedure.
I lied when I said I was going to wait a few days to watch the Torchwood finale. I watched it this morning, and I'm wondering what it is exactly about Russell T. Davies' shows that makes me cry all the time.
Although, the answer to that is really simple: it's characters I care for, their emotional moments that ring true, and the connections that these characters form with each other.
End of Days was one of those episodes that was all about the end for me, like how Leonard Betts in X-Files season four was entirely about setting up Scully's cancer. End of Days was Torchwood pulling the team apart so they could put it back together, pulling Jack away from everyone so they could welcome him back, so they could heal the wounds he'd caused, or indirectly, that Torchwood had caused them all, and then be ready to move on. Ianto gets to tell Jack no. Owen gets to (seemingly) kill him. It's all a catharsis, almost, without having to really lose anything more than what you've already learned to live with.
I was struck by how, after days of being almost-dead, Jack thanks Gwen for bringing him back, when it had seemed, for the past several episodes, that Jack wanted to die. I was also struck by Gwen's belief in Jack, though perhaps it was her belief in everything finally returning back to the way it should be.
I'm still so fascinated about how the presence of the Doctor is so powerful in Torchwood. I guess I'm used to spin-offs spinning off and abandoning most of their origins. But one of the most important parts of Jack's characterization in Torchwood revolves around what happened to him in another show, and we know what happened to everyone else, but Jack doesn't. It's revealing that the thing that would have tempted Jack to open the rift, the loss that's on par with Diane for Owen, Rhys for Gwen, Lisa for Ianto, and her mother for Toshiko, is the right kind of doctor, the same phrase Jack used when talking about the Doctor when Gwen first found out Jack couldn't die.
And so, the sound of the TARDIS, that dinosaur growl of engines, sent a thrill up my spine. Because I know what it is Jack's looking for. Doctor Who has trained me to see just how life-altering it is to travel with the Doctor.
And is it crazy for me to be worried for Jack, for the first time he sees the new Doctor's face, and, and when he finds out Rose is gone. Or does Jack already think she's dead and he'll find hope when he out she's alive, even if she's stuck in another world? I think, in that case, he'd be very much like the Doctor in thinking it matters most that she's alive, even if they won't see her again.
I lied when I said I was going to wait a few days to watch the Torchwood finale. I watched it this morning, and I'm wondering what it is exactly about Russell T. Davies' shows that makes me cry all the time.
Although, the answer to that is really simple: it's characters I care for, their emotional moments that ring true, and the connections that these characters form with each other.
End of Days was one of those episodes that was all about the end for me, like how Leonard Betts in X-Files season four was entirely about setting up Scully's cancer. End of Days was Torchwood pulling the team apart so they could put it back together, pulling Jack away from everyone so they could welcome him back, so they could heal the wounds he'd caused, or indirectly, that Torchwood had caused them all, and then be ready to move on. Ianto gets to tell Jack no. Owen gets to (seemingly) kill him. It's all a catharsis, almost, without having to really lose anything more than what you've already learned to live with.
I was struck by how, after days of being almost-dead, Jack thanks Gwen for bringing him back, when it had seemed, for the past several episodes, that Jack wanted to die. I was also struck by Gwen's belief in Jack, though perhaps it was her belief in everything finally returning back to the way it should be.
I'm still so fascinated about how the presence of the Doctor is so powerful in Torchwood. I guess I'm used to spin-offs spinning off and abandoning most of their origins. But one of the most important parts of Jack's characterization in Torchwood revolves around what happened to him in another show, and we know what happened to everyone else, but Jack doesn't. It's revealing that the thing that would have tempted Jack to open the rift, the loss that's on par with Diane for Owen, Rhys for Gwen, Lisa for Ianto, and her mother for Toshiko, is the right kind of doctor, the same phrase Jack used when talking about the Doctor when Gwen first found out Jack couldn't die.
And so, the sound of the TARDIS, that dinosaur growl of engines, sent a thrill up my spine. Because I know what it is Jack's looking for. Doctor Who has trained me to see just how life-altering it is to travel with the Doctor.
And is it crazy for me to be worried for Jack, for the first time he sees the new Doctor's face, and, and when he finds out Rose is gone. Or does Jack already think she's dead and he'll find hope when he out she's alive, even if she's stuck in another world? I think, in that case, he'd be very much like the Doctor in thinking it matters most that she's alive, even if they won't see her again.