'i think i thought i saw you Die'
Big Finish....I'm not entirely sure what it is, just that it's some sort of audio play; I think it's UK, but that might be just because all I know of it is that I keep hearing about Doctor Who Big Finish. That's the extent of my knowledge..... :D
Now, apparently, there's going to be Torchwood Big Finish and--guess what!--Ianto's back! Yes, the dead guy. I'm assuming that the stories must be set before the excreable CoE; after all, Rusty, who brought Rose back 9,000 times, firmly believes that it would lessen a character by bringing him back after he got deaded.
It's all pretty funny, in that sardonic way (that, actually, the Ianto character was so good at)....It says a lot that whoever has come up with this production is steering it back to Ianto and not, so it seems, picking up after Miracle Whip Day. Because, presumably, the producers would like to make money and have people actually listen to/buy/download/whatever the hell Big Finish is.
Because, no matter how hard some folks--including Russell T Davies--would like to try to convince themselves anyone
SOMEONE that characters are disposable and death = drama....Ianto was a major draw in TW. And, boy, didn't Rusty miss the wave: TW really was, in hindsight, a major step in TV science fiction, in its depiction of the relationship between Jack and Ianto. Rusty chucked it all, in favor of his infatuation with the charcater of Gwen, aka Rose v.2. What a stupid loss.....
Looking back, I can only wish for What Might Have Been. TW broke ground in TV science fiction with the depiction of a developing, loving gay relationship...between heroes. For instance, "From Out of the Rain," like many of the TW episodes, had a number of issues pertaining to plot and continuity; however, the episode contains a golden moment: Jack and Ianto, shot from the hero mode perspective, striding side by side with guns drawn--the actors matching their movements and expressions flawlessly. The visual is striking.
How great it would have been to have a showrunner who liked the show take over for the third season--someone who might have done something as basic as design a show bible, in order to erase the continuity stupidities, for one thing. Someone, also, who wasn't utterly devoted to his failed pitch of the TV show starring the Mucho Macho female cop who does....something....whatever, as long as she wears leather and pouts. Someone who would've seen the wave building (Ireland's overwhelming majority vote on gay marriage, the US Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, etc., etc.) and develop a TV show that was on the cutting edge of all of it--history in the making. Because, for anyone really paying attention to any of the continuity of TW (Rusty--that lets you out): the two lover/heroes weren't "just" gay--the "omnisexual" label for Jack was a science fiction exploration of free sexuality, loosely referencing bisexuality, and Ianto was, most definitely, according to the events of the show, bisexual.
The original TW, despite any and all flaws, did what science fiction does best: combine action/adventure plots with characterizations that remark upon current social mores and expand/challenge the audience's attitudes. A comparison can be made with the original Star Trek: there are a lot of truly crappy episodes in those three years, and a lot of plot details that don't make a whole helluva lot of sense and/or violate continuity; there are also gems--and, most of all, there are the characters: the characters are what matters and what made the series last. The stories? They are not the reason people still care about Star Trek (exhibit A: Into Darkness). It's all about the characters and the characters' interaction. And the social comment. That mattered. Dr. King explained it to Nichele Nichols: the visual of a black woman officer on the deck of the flagship of the fleet mattered even if all Uhura did was, basically, answer the damned phone. Humans are visual creatures, and that visual was powerful. Like the hero gay guys.
That was the potential of TW. Rusty trashed it. And there will not be any visuals to the Big Finish money-grabber. Others may have surfed the wave since....Rusty chose the kiddie pool.
Now, apparently, there's going to be Torchwood Big Finish and--guess what!--Ianto's back! Yes, the dead guy. I'm assuming that the stories must be set before the excreable CoE; after all, Rusty, who brought Rose back 9,000 times, firmly believes that it would lessen a character by bringing him back after he got deaded.
It's all pretty funny, in that sardonic way (that, actually, the Ianto character was so good at)....It says a lot that whoever has come up with this production is steering it back to Ianto and not, so it seems, picking up after Miracle Whip Day. Because, presumably, the producers would like to make money and have people actually listen to/buy/download/whatever the hell Big Finish is.
Because, no matter how hard some folks--including Russell T Davies--would like to try to convince themselves anyone
SOMEONE that characters are disposable and death = drama....Ianto was a major draw in TW. And, boy, didn't Rusty miss the wave: TW really was, in hindsight, a major step in TV science fiction, in its depiction of the relationship between Jack and Ianto. Rusty chucked it all, in favor of his infatuation with the charcater of Gwen, aka Rose v.2. What a stupid loss.....
Looking back, I can only wish for What Might Have Been. TW broke ground in TV science fiction with the depiction of a developing, loving gay relationship...between heroes. For instance, "From Out of the Rain," like many of the TW episodes, had a number of issues pertaining to plot and continuity; however, the episode contains a golden moment: Jack and Ianto, shot from the hero mode perspective, striding side by side with guns drawn--the actors matching their movements and expressions flawlessly. The visual is striking.
How great it would have been to have a showrunner who liked the show take over for the third season--someone who might have done something as basic as design a show bible, in order to erase the continuity stupidities, for one thing. Someone, also, who wasn't utterly devoted to his failed pitch of the TV show starring the Mucho Macho female cop who does....something....whatever, as long as she wears leather and pouts. Someone who would've seen the wave building (Ireland's overwhelming majority vote on gay marriage, the US Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, etc., etc.) and develop a TV show that was on the cutting edge of all of it--history in the making. Because, for anyone really paying attention to any of the continuity of TW (Rusty--that lets you out): the two lover/heroes weren't "just" gay--the "omnisexual" label for Jack was a science fiction exploration of free sexuality, loosely referencing bisexuality, and Ianto was, most definitely, according to the events of the show, bisexual.
The original TW, despite any and all flaws, did what science fiction does best: combine action/adventure plots with characterizations that remark upon current social mores and expand/challenge the audience's attitudes. A comparison can be made with the original Star Trek: there are a lot of truly crappy episodes in those three years, and a lot of plot details that don't make a whole helluva lot of sense and/or violate continuity; there are also gems--and, most of all, there are the characters: the characters are what matters and what made the series last. The stories? They are not the reason people still care about Star Trek (exhibit A: Into Darkness). It's all about the characters and the characters' interaction. And the social comment. That mattered. Dr. King explained it to Nichele Nichols: the visual of a black woman officer on the deck of the flagship of the fleet mattered even if all Uhura did was, basically, answer the damned phone. Humans are visual creatures, and that visual was powerful. Like the hero gay guys.
That was the potential of TW. Rusty trashed it. And there will not be any visuals to the Big Finish money-grabber. Others may have surfed the wave since....Rusty chose the kiddie pool.