Comments | redbrickrose: Torchwood: Children of Earth

redbrickrose

Torchwood: Children of Earth

Jul 13, 2009 02:43

So, I got home and I was exhausted, but I was like, hey! I think I'll watch Torchwood and then go to bed.

Yeah, whatever. So then I watched Torchwood. And now it's way past the middle of the night and I'm even more exhausted.

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inlovewithnight July 13 2009, 12:29:10 UTC

OH CRAP I WAS HOPING I WOULD HAVE TIME TO WARN YOU ABOUT TORCHWOOD.

It was a *very* rough week on the Internet last week, all over. /o\

::hugs?::

redbrickrose July 13 2009, 13:25:23 UTC

I was spoiled for Ianto's death. Fool that I am, I figured that would be the great, traumatic event. HAHAHAHA. HAHA. WRONG.

Oh, man. Is there anything else I should know about before I try to catch up on my flist? Forewarned is forearmed!

*hugshugs*

inlovewithnight July 13 2009, 13:29:15 UTC

I think that was everything that would upset you; there was an anonymous SPN meme that turned into a hate meme, as they do, but I don't think that's one of your buttons. Various Panic photos and Tweets and whatnot, but nothing earth-shaking or revelatory.

Something fannish and awesome needs to happen, is all I'm saying. SOON.

redbrickrose July 13 2009, 13:47:22 UTC

Not one of my buttons, but I'm not sad I missed it.

I think Panic has been plenty earth-shaking enough for one week. /o\

Harry Potter is tomorrow! I know that's not your thing and it's only kind of mine, but maybe it will at least provide a good distraction? It will likely make people happy! That will be good! But yes, something otherwise fannishly awesome really, REALLY needs to happen soon.

aurora_84 July 13 2009, 13:37:49 UTC

The darkness has to really feel completely narratively necessary, and I didn't feel that here. It felt like a lot of the last part was done for shock value and emotional manipulation.
Exactly! It was the fifth episode that really undid me, with the killing of children and taking away of children. It was like watching torture!porn. :| :|

redbrickrose July 13 2009, 13:48:13 UTC

It was like watching torture!porn.

That comparison hadn't occurred to me, but yeah. It really did feel a lot like that.

aurora_84 July 13 2009, 13:56:09 UTC

I really felt like I was looking at the dark recesses of RTD's brain. :(

songgirl12 July 14 2009, 08:32:11 UTC

Torchwood. Yeah.

I have to admit, I was not personally touched by Panic at the Disco, though of course I mourn for the fandom. Torchwood, though.

I, um, I might have to write some sort of grace-in-darkness-trying-to-reform-society fic involving Martha.

redbrickrose July 14 2009, 14:34:09 UTC

STEFANIE PANIC AT THE DISCO IS A TRAGEDY DO NOT SUGGEST OTHERWISE.

Torchwood, though, just. Yeah. I mean, you have all the really hard, disturbing stuff with the kids, you have a redemption narrative that sort of seems to be concluding that there isn't any after all...and then you have the queer stuff, which honestly bothers me too.

I KNOW that TW is a show with queer characters that's not about the being queer. That's the point of TW and one of the best things about it, so it's great that they're just treated matter-of-factly. Probably more than on any other show, the sexuality of the characters is incidental. HOWEVER, who survives? (Jack does, but only because his tragedy is that he can't die, and he's irreparably broken). Rocks fall, everyone dies except the happy, heteronormative couple. And it's not that I don't love Gwen and Rhys because I do, but just. Et tu, RTD?

I would so, so read that. Martha! I am SO GLAD NOW that she didn't end up on TW.

spiderwebb July 14 2009, 12:22:10 UTC

DOOD. i wasn't spoiled for any of it. and i'm just glad i watched with friends cos if i had seen any of it by myself, i think i would be catatonic now.

we watched all of it in one sitting last night and am still processing, and i'm really shaky this morning. the children, the CHILDREN being stolen away from their parents, was almost unbearable to watch for me, having a school age child myself...

ugh, i need to lie in a room with kittens and baby unicorns (do they have a name?) until the gloom cloud passes...

glad you had a good weekend!

redbrickrose July 14 2009, 14:36:39 UTC

It was almost unbearable anyway, I imagine it was so much worse for parents. So hard to watch. It was effective; I'll give it that.

I watched the first two episodes as they aired, and then the last three in a chunk by myself, and then I really didn't sleep much the night after.

Find cute and/or shiny things today is probably a good call.

Thanks!

bhadrasvapna July 26 2009, 00:04:53 UTC

I finished CoE last night, so now am going back and reading my flist's reaction ( ... )

redbrickrose July 27 2009, 03:56:39 UTC

There was no celebration here. There was the very worst of humanity

I think that's what really got me about it. There was absolutely nothing redemptive there. I mean, I know they saved the 10% so maybe it can be argued that *that* was, but it didn't feel like it, since they destroyed pretty much everything the audience cared about. I don't know, I just have no interest in anything that unrelentingly bleak. And yeah, I didn't *buy* it. It felt like bleak for the sake of bleak and like it was mostly about shock value. Tragedy should feel narratively necessary. This didn't. I know they have a fourth season coming and I do wonder how they're going to come back from this. I might watch it, but I'm not about to let myself get emotionally invested in the characters again.