observation about torchwood
i've been reading through my f'list's reactions to 'children of earth', as well as pondering over my own, and i noticed something odd:
the less emotional investment you had in torchwood and its characters, the more you seemed to enjoy 'children of earth'.
( thoughts, and a worry about what this bodes for the tenth doctor's final exit )
It was interesting that there seemed to be a mixture of things that organically happened (like the "deciding who lives and who dies" meeting), and other things that happened only because RTD decreed it (so was Martha Jones really on her honeymoon all that time? Is it really government policy to kill, before asking people nicely not to say anything? Do you really need to blow up this alien-expert organization? I guess the bureaucrats could just be incredibly anti-Queen Victoria!)
Maybe I'm just a bit more positive than RTD, but shouldn't there have been some dialogue before the brain-frying bit? The kid was old enough to make a noble gesture, wasn't he? (if he refused, well, you could still go ahead with the execution).
Personally, the point of the miniseries to me was as a seesaw battle for "BIGGEST BASTARD" honors (rated on an open-ended scale, with Gwen Cooper at 0.00, naturally :-)). At least keeping track of that kept me from getting too depressed at the proceedings (sigh).
-D.E.
Where's Cambot when you need him? (Maybe a certain amount of SIDEHACKING would have helped, too ;-))
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