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itsnotmymind

Torchwod Fic: The Evening After

Dec 12, 2016 14:07

Title: The Evening After
Fandom: Torchwood
Summary: Tosh after Mary
Disclaimer: I don’t own Toshiko

( The Evening After )

fic, torchwood

Comments 2

selenak December 14 2016, 05:59:59 UTC

Tosh in season 1 is so heartbreaking - even more so in retrospect of the Fragments backstory.

"Then why doesn't it come here?" Suzie asked, and there was no mistaking the bitterness in her voice.

Because it coes to the Sarah Jane Adventures instead. Okay, more seriously, Suzie's outburst in the pilot and the way it reverbarates throughout the first season are part of what made said season, and at the time I felt they were going a bit overboard with the nihilism; otoh the moment in A Day in the Death when it turns out that the glowy alien rock isn't providing yet another bit of misery, but something wondrously beautiful, partly is as powerful because of all the previous stuff. Otoh I do think s2 got the balance better in showing why people not on parole like Tosh would continue to want to do this job.

(BTW, actually the pilot of SJA does have Sarah Jane communicate with a being of Mary's species, and it's played like a moment of joy and mutual help.)

Sometimes, Tosh felt a bit of sadistic delight at the thought of Gwen's ( ... )

itsnotmymind December 14 2016, 14:00:56 UTC

I never actually saw the Sarah Jane Adventures, don't really know why. I remember being irritated when fans complained that a children's show like the Sarah Jane Adventures was better than an adult show like Torchwood. Not only did it make me defensive of my show (even though…I have to admit the first two seasons of Torchwood were not high quality television), the concept that of course an adult show should be better than a kids' show irritated me. Plenty of media geared towards children is high quality, and a lot of what adults choose to consume is crap. Age has nothing to do with it.

I do <3 that alien rock in Day in the Death.

(BTW, actually the pilot of SJA does have Sarah Jane communicate with a being of Mary's species, and it's played like a moment of joy and mutual help.)I did not know that. Maybe I should check it out ( ... )