{{Hugs}} I don't know the first damn thing about the show, but I *love* this pic and your icon. {frantically fanning myself now that the gigantic furnace I live in -- called the Deep South -- just got *hotter*} Wow. :)
Hold on a sec. Maybe I'm not so much in love with the pic... I just had another look at it, and is this a kiss (like I thought) or a "deathbed" goodbye {which I hope to God it isn't, even though I'm not invested in any of the show's characters, having never seen the show}? But I still adore your icon. :-) {{Hugs}}
sadly---devastatingly, gut-wrenchingly---it is the latter, but here they are in happier times, in all their glory, just 3 short days ago. Such beautiful men:
{back, cold water bottle in tow} Oh, no! They... the show's Powers That Be ... can't possibly separate these two. Can they? Really? Arghgghghh. Why is it, I ask, that only the most devoted of lovers (and I see a lot of devotion and love going on in that pic here, correct me if I'm wrong) seem fated to a cruel separation? Is it so juvenile or shallow of me to want happy endings and for people to grow old happily together, even if only in fiction? Sigh. Still, now I *know* I have to find out more about this show and what I've been missing!
The utterly vexing thing is that the guy on the right has spent the last few eps trying to figure out his place in the life of the guy on the left (who just happens to be immortal), has just figured out what the future likely holds for them and decided "Let's go for it," and then WHAM! Death like a bolt from the blue :::cries:::
Even knowing that, I can't recommend Torchwood to you highly enough. It's a phenomenal piece of television.
Much as I loved the Romeo and Juliet sprawl, I'm mighty pissed off with this. Too soon! Not ready! Stoopid Torchwood. It was only a few weeks ago I was comforting my 7 yr-old as the BBC's Robin Hood expired prettily on the floor of Sherwood Forest ... Stoopid BBC. Knowing RTD, though, he's probably cackling and rubbing his hands with glee right now. *grmpf*
Ianto, even more than Jack, has been my hero this week, and now I'm devastated/furious/devastated/furious/utterly bereft. I'm not even going to allow myself to hope that a glorious "Ianto's return" might be used as the carrot to get us watching S4.
I don't watch a lot of modern TV (and I've never seen TW at all, though I sort of get the idea from people on the flist) but it seems that there is still a big failure of nerve when it comes to m/m relationships. Lesbians are okay (non-threatening?) but usually, if you've got a gay man, he's a) sick, b) crazy, c) celibate, d) miserable, e) a joke, f) dead, g) some combination of the above.
If this weren't a BBC production, and helmed by Russell T Davies, I'd be inclined to agree. RTD likely wrote this scenario because there was no way the viewers would've predicted it, 2/5 of the cast having already been wiped out last season!
The main character is actually "omni-sexual" because he's a) an alien b) a sometime time traveler and also c) immortal (in an early ep it's pretty much explained that he has no 21st Century hangups and so will shag anything!). His latest and now late, lamented lover approached their relationship in a manner right out of fanfic tropism: he ain't gay, but he's gay for the male lead.
As trite as that may sound, it's actually been handled quite beautifully for one whole season, where they pretty much just banged one another (mostly off camera), and then in this mini-series, the young human has been coming to terms with his new life (if he lived to be 100, his alien lover would still outlive him and move on).
The only bright light is that because the male lead is an immortal alien who has
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Are they humans, the folks on his planet? I'd sort of lost sight of that fact, just calling them humanoid in my mind. On the other hand, thiguh, I'm refered to as an alien, and I was even born on Earth ;-)
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Make it not happen in part five!
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Twitterers are, apparently, organizing a RTD lynch mob right now.
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Oh, these two are Deep-South-hot together all right :D
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>>> You too! :-) {{Hugs}}
"Oh, these two are Deep-South-hot together all right"
>>> Um-hm. Yeah. {running off to get a cold bottle of water from the fridge}
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Even knowing that, I can't recommend Torchwood to you highly enough. It's a phenomenal piece of television.
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Wrong, RTD... this is just plain WRONG!
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The main character is actually "omni-sexual" because he's a) an alien b) a sometime time traveler and also c) immortal (in an early ep it's pretty much explained that he has no 21st Century hangups and so will shag anything!). His latest and now late, lamented lover approached their relationship in a manner right out of fanfic tropism: he ain't gay, but he's gay for the male lead.
As trite as that may sound, it's actually been handled quite beautifully for one whole season, where they pretty much just banged one another (mostly off camera), and then in this mini-series, the young human has been coming to terms with his new life (if he lived to be 100, his alien lover would still outlive him and move on).
The only bright light is that because the male lead is an immortal alien who has ( ... )
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If Jack is a human who grew up on another planet in the 51st century, can we really call him an alien?
Hm.....
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(Phew! Nice save, Nik...)
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