John Frobisher was a good man
See, here's the thing: there's only one demon possession movie. It's called The Exorcist. Everything else is fated to be a bad copy of The Exorcist. I don't know why this is -- most likely, the movie was so influential that our very concept of demonic possession is defined by it -- but my point is, stop making possession movies, because there already is one, and only one, and yours isn't going to be any better.
And if you do foolishly go ahead and make one, please don't advertise in such a way that I cannot look at IMDb or watch various TV shows online without forcibly being subjected to the trailer. Okay?
Oh, and I'm about to post some Teen Wolf fic recs, but obviously I have some miscellaneous FEELINGS to get out of the way first.
I watched Children of Earth again, and I stand by my former opinion: it is the best series of Torchwood. Yeah, it has some problems (let's storm Thames House, ultimately costing dozens if not hundreds of lives, and just argue the aliens away!) and completely lacks the humor of the first two seasons and we didn't really need all that green goo, but there were really gorgeous, painful bits that I'd forgotten. Like Frobisher's entire subplot (brilliantly acted, BTW), or the brief monologue Gwen has about the Doctor turning away from the earth in disgust. It might be the bleakest thing I've ever seen that I actually liked and watched more than once, because I am not generally a lover of angst, not even as catharsis.
I didn't know until long after I'd watched the whole series how much Gwen-hate there was on the internets, and having seen it again, I can understand -- she's the only one that never loses anything. She gets a perfect restart every time. It doesn't bother me so much, because it almost feels like someone has to or else none of what Torchwood does is worth it. The fact that she never faced any consequences for cheating on her boyfriend, telling him about it, then retconning him to forget it while begging him to forgive her -- that bothers me, but not enough to hate her character. Which actually kind of surprises me, but there you go. Torchwood makes angst and infidelity okay, because gay alien sex!
And I've started watching Miracle Day, because I am a masochist. It's a really interesting premise -- can't wait to see how they fuck it up.
And if you do foolishly go ahead and make one, please don't advertise in such a way that I cannot look at IMDb or watch various TV shows online without forcibly being subjected to the trailer. Okay?
Oh, and I'm about to post some Teen Wolf fic recs, but obviously I have some miscellaneous FEELINGS to get out of the way first.
I watched Children of Earth again, and I stand by my former opinion: it is the best series of Torchwood. Yeah, it has some problems (let's storm Thames House, ultimately costing dozens if not hundreds of lives, and just argue the aliens away!) and completely lacks the humor of the first two seasons and we didn't really need all that green goo, but there were really gorgeous, painful bits that I'd forgotten. Like Frobisher's entire subplot (brilliantly acted, BTW), or the brief monologue Gwen has about the Doctor turning away from the earth in disgust. It might be the bleakest thing I've ever seen that I actually liked and watched more than once, because I am not generally a lover of angst, not even as catharsis.
I didn't know until long after I'd watched the whole series how much Gwen-hate there was on the internets, and having seen it again, I can understand -- she's the only one that never loses anything. She gets a perfect restart every time. It doesn't bother me so much, because it almost feels like someone has to or else none of what Torchwood does is worth it. The fact that she never faced any consequences for cheating on her boyfriend, telling him about it, then retconning him to forget it while begging him to forgive her -- that bothers me, but not enough to hate her character. Which actually kind of surprises me, but there you go. Torchwood makes angst and infidelity okay, because gay alien sex!
And I've started watching Miracle Day, because I am a masochist. It's a really interesting premise -- can't wait to see how they fuck it up.