Brushing up one's Shaw, and Torchwood links
Because YouTube keeps surprising you with nifty things you didn't know existed: having once written at length about why I love Shaw, I was delighted to find scenes from his play Caesar and Cleopatra in a tv production from 1976, starring Alec Guinness, no less, as Caesar, and Genevieve Bujold as Cleopatra. Here's the opening scene, a great example of the way Shaw subverts expectations. How his rethoric flows and how the dialogue sparkles:
Two Torchwood links, both related to and spoilery for Children of Earth, one fanfiction, one meta:
The Time Traveler's Daughter: Alice and Jack before and after. Yes, someone was brave enough to tackle the after, and for decades, no less. Very moving story, and I do love when fanfic explores Alice.
Children of Earth: Ethics, narrative structure and meaning: meta focused on the most debated point in fandom: whether and why that event at the end of Day Four was necessary for the overall dramatic structure to work.
Click to viewTwo Torchwood links, both related to and spoilery for Children of Earth, one fanfiction, one meta:
The Time Traveler's Daughter: Alice and Jack before and after. Yes, someone was brave enough to tackle the after, and for decades, no less. Very moving story, and I do love when fanfic explores Alice.
Children of Earth: Ethics, narrative structure and meaning: meta focused on the most debated point in fandom: whether and why that event at the end of Day Four was necessary for the overall dramatic structure to work.