I thought it WAS meant to show what weirdos Torchwood has made Jack and Ianto - especially Jack, since Alice at least calls him on it, and I loved that bit, because for once, Jack was WRONG about something. That look of realization and shame on his face when she said it - that was new stuff for him, wasn't it? Usually he gets to feel totally justified about his bastardry.
Also, I get the feeling that RTD (and, by proxy, Jack) kind of worships the idea of motherhood and straightness. He always puts a sainted straight girl at the center of things, and the pregnancy/bomb thing read more to me as "in straight people, it's a miracle - in queer people, it's DEATH." So yeah, there's this weird element of simultaneous worship and disgust, it seems. It's interesting how Gwen and Rhys get the cozy married domesticity whereas Jack and Ianto get sexual passion plus emotional weirdness.
But dude, yeah, WTF - Filipino child HUH? I did a comical blinking double-take at that line.
In some ways, RTD is quite a good writer. In others, he is sort of
Yeah, as more is revealed, this arc seems to be more about Jack's bastardry than anything else. Which, yay! The anti-hero!
there's this weird element of simultaneous worship and disgust, it seems.
... In some ways, RTD is quite a good writer. In others, he is sort of terrible.
Yes, this and this. My cultural studies brain is a bit too rusty (hah hah, pun unintended) to properly dig into that side-by-side awesometude and fail. To be honest, I think that lack of consistency may have something to do with the multi-author nature of television-- there's Rusty writing and producing, but then there are the actors, and the director, and editor, etc etc, all influencing the characters and story as well. I suspect if it was ALL RTD, there's be more fail.
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Argh, RTD.
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Also, I get the feeling that RTD (and, by proxy, Jack) kind of worships the idea of motherhood and straightness. He always puts a sainted straight girl at the center of things, and the pregnancy/bomb thing read more to me as "in straight people, it's a miracle - in queer people, it's DEATH." So yeah, there's this weird element of simultaneous worship and disgust, it seems. It's interesting how Gwen and Rhys get the cozy married domesticity whereas Jack and Ianto get sexual passion plus emotional weirdness.
But dude, yeah, WTF - Filipino child HUH? I did a comical blinking double-take at that line.
In some ways, RTD is quite a good writer. In others, he is sort of
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there's this weird element of simultaneous worship and disgust, it seems.
... In some ways, RTD is quite a good writer. In others, he is sort of terrible.
Yes, this and this. My cultural studies brain is a bit too rusty (hah hah, pun unintended) to properly dig into that side-by-side awesometude and fail. To be honest, I think that lack of consistency may have something to do with the multi-author nature of television-- there's Rusty writing and producing, but then there are the actors, and the director, and editor, etc etc, all influencing the characters and story as well. I suspect if it was ALL RTD, there's be more fail.
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