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[solitary_summer]

So, SJA. I really wish I'd written this post yesterday when I was full of unreserved squee, while now I have to say I found the second half of S3 rather generic and something of a letdown after the first. I can't quite put my finger on it, but a certain something that made the other episodes so charming, details, the way the relationships between

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[solitary_summer]

I don't know how much influence RTD had over stories as the executive producer of TW or SJA. (Though he kept lamenting how he believed he neglected them in The Writer's Tale.) Chris Chibnall was head writer for TW seasons 1 and 2, and Phil Ford was head writer for at least SJA season 1, but maybe RTD set the direction for them. Or at least the tone?

The fact that it was his decision to switch Ianto and Owen (as well as the fact that he came up with the resurrection glove in the first place) vaguely suggested to me that he might have been responsible for this arc, but it's impossible to say, really.

The Trickster in SJA is heavy stuff, when those episodes involve characters who should have died but didn't.

Definitely. I loved The Temptation..., but it isn't a lightweight episode. I'd have said that maybe children notice this kind of thing less than adults, or maybe it doesn't have the same weight to them, but then again it's all about a parents/child relationship, even if there's time travel involved, so I'm sure if that is true.

I forgot about Turn Left, but now that you mention it, didn't Jack say the Trickster Brigade was the force behind the brain-infecting parasite in MD ep.7?

[topaz_eyes]

Yes, the Trickster Brigade was behind the brain parasite in MD. Apparently the Trickster Brigade is the only villain to have appeared/been implicated in all 3 shows. And in all 3 shows the Trickster Brigade is linked with death--death always seems to be aligned against chaos.