lol torchwood novels

[phaetonschariot]

So yesterday I reread Pack Animals and today I reread Skypoint - I'm thinking about taking a skip backwards to Slow Decay tomorrow if I have time. The thing about Skypoint is, apart from the constantly changing POVs and the fact that I'm pretty sure he mixes up Wendy and Alison's names a few times (particularly in the climactic scene), regularly

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[fiwen1010]

A double degree like that would be either a three year or four year, depending on where you go. I looked at similar options that were three (don't have the patience to do four years)

And Gwen is supposed to be the oldest of them, apart from Jack, apparently.

Also... yeah, the books and canon. They were pretty awful on it from start to finish. The early ones were clearly written by people who hadn't seen the show, and possibly hadn't even seen a script in some cases.

[phaetonschariot]

Gwen's supposed to be the oldest... even though Owen and Tosh have super qualifications? I'm pretty sure they don't hire you to work in the Ministry of Defense outta high school. o.o But then tv has always had a problem with realistic ages of people in highly technical fields like that. You'd think medical school was only two years watching some shows.

One of the funniest things about the early books for me is how invisible Ianto is. The best is one of them when Tosh is musing about how she's the least appreciated member of the team and her thoughts wander along Jack, Owen and Gwen, with no mention of Ianto whatsoever. And then in the later books a lot of the authors give him some really good lines. The difference is a little surreal. I guess the earlier ones they just didn't know what to do with him, especially the ones that were written/set before Cyberwoman.

Slow Decay opens with a lot of philosophising from Jack and Gwen on a roof. I'm like "yeah yeah yeah, he's Mysterious™, we get it!"

[fiwen1010]

Gwen's the team mom, you can't have the mom be younger than the others. [/sarcasm. about everything]

I hate most of the books. I'd call them poor fanfiction, except that they were written by people who didn't care about the show rather than fans.

If I ever get my TV show, I will insist that tie-in novels are commissioned from fanfiction writers.

[phaetonschariot]

Most of them are just plain forgettable. I mean, Another Life I listened to the audio version so it was already at a loss, but after I finished it I could barely remember anything that happened. I do admit to a certain fondness for Almost Perfect in a ridiculous way where you just can't take it seriously, but then I'm pretty sure James Goss who wrote that and James Moran who wrote Sleeper have matching homemade Ianto Jones Fan Club membership cards, possibly with little hearts doodled on them somewhere.

[citrinesunset]

Heh, I love the novels just for the crackiness.

I haven't read Skypoint. Of the ones I've read, Pack Animals was the worst when it comes to editorial goofs. Did you notice that? At least in the copy I have, Owen is introduced to that journalist guy twice, with almost the exact same dialogue both times.

[phaetonschariot]

LOL. I didn't get mine until later so I think that might have been fixed in my copy. (Though I'm still bitter over an argument in a Harry Potter RPG caused by different editions having different information. The "fixed" version made less sense plotwise, too.) I have noticed a couple of repetitive phrases but nothing stuck out at me quite that much.

[citrinesunset]

Heh. I pretended that Torchwood accidentally let some Retcon loose in the water supply and everyone was forgetting stuff. The Owen thing was the most obvious, but I swore there were a couple parts where Gwen and Tosh seemed to "rediscover" stuff they'd figured out in earlier scenes, too.

[phaetonschariot]

Oh, crappy books. XD Actually what's funny in Slow Decay is that for most of the book, every time Ianto appears it's because someone is wandering around the Hub basement and he has to helpfully redirect them. Away from his cyber-girlfriend. *cough*