Munich Film Festival IV and Torchwood: The Dead Line

[selenak]

The last of the Torchwood radio plays leading up to the tv miniseries first. Written by Phil Ford, this was one to make the shippers of two different relationships happy.

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[kalypso_v]

It gives me quite a different view of the monologue. Though it explains why he couldn't see Jack smile.

with all the talk of Jack's enjoying the 70s (complete with bad hair and John Travolta aspirations), I'm sure more crossovers to a certain show will be written...

I got rather smug, because as soon as he started going on about 1974 I thought "Bet there's a Tyler somewhere in the cast list", and there was.

[selenak]

Nah, it was completely a typo. Which shall not be edited.:)

[ffutures]

All three of the plays have been pretty good - there's apparently going to be a Children of Earth DVD release as soon as it's aired, hopefully they'll include the plays too, but I'm keeping the downloads in case they don't.

[nimbusxl]

The plays are getting their own CD release, Asylum is already out there while the other two will be out next month.

[elisi]

I think they really are important for tv continuity
*nods* Which makes sense, given how short this year's mini series is.

Even for a non-shipper like me, this was genuinenly affecting, and both Ford's writing and the performance made it moving without ever being trite.:) As I said in your last post, I love how they write Jack/Ianto, and this did make me exceedingly happy. Not just for the baring of feelings, but for the way it was done. It's odd, since TW is generally such an OTT show, but they handle (most of) their relationships beautifully. In J/I's case they avoid the whole 'OMG loook at Teh Gay!!!', whilst at the same time letting the relationship unfold in a way that definitely reflects the characters, and the fact that they are both male, and thus do not tend to sit around 'discussing their feelings'. (Having Jack in a 'coma' was *such* a cliché, but I still adored it!) I also love that the writers are tackling the inherent problems of a relationship between a mortal and an immortal head-on, not shying away from the built-in

[selenak]

Not at all! If I don't reply as extensively it's due to having a guest for the weekend, which means by the time I get to reply someone else usually already has.:)

[kathyh]

Even for a non-shipper like me, this was genuinenly affecting, and both Ford's writing and the performance made it moving without ever being trite.

Yes, I thought it was beautifully done. Gareth David-Lloyd definitely gets my vote as most improved radio actor of the team and the monologue actually made the Jack/Ianto relationship far more interesting to me. I haven't seen any evidence in the TV shows so far that it was much more than a bit of fun for both of them but I'm reassessing that opinion now.

It's possible to get over someone, even in the DW/TW'verse.

LOL. Thank you Phil Ford for creating a mature, successful middle-aged woman who isn't crazy!

Cooper/Williams makes a great crime-fighting duo, down to Rhys, sensible guy that he is, making sure Gwen eats something once in a while.

It's so refreshing to see a married couple working successfully together as a team. I love them too.

This was my definite favourite of the radio plays, well-paced and with good character moments.

[elisi]

I haven't seen any evidence in the TV shows so far that it was much more than a bit of fun for both of them but I'm reassessing that opinion now.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can watch the same show and see such different things. I loved Ianto's monologue partly because it put him - and his relationship with Jack - *precisely* where I'm seeing them being at. (And I've read fanfic versions of it hundreds of times. Just perfection.)

[kathyh]

It was so close to fanfic that I wondered if Phil Ford had read fanfic versions of it too *g*. Seriously, the show has dealt with Ianto's fear that Jack would leave before but I don't think it's addressed the immortality issue, which as a Highlander fan (where immortality was *the* issue) I've been expecting it to if either of them regarded the relationship as in any way long-term.

[artaxastra]

I was wondering if Cheri was going to be good. I'm glad you think so!

(Not that anyone in Dangerous Liasons is working for a living, either, but there is the historical awareness the guillotine is waiting for the lot of them...)

Oh yes! And it's impossible not to see that shadow there. Who will stll be alive in ten years? Not Danceny, most likely. He's bound for the guillotine if anyone ever was. Not Madame de Tourvel, as she's not an active enough person to do anything to avoid what is coming down upon her. I'd place my money on Cecile. I can see her bobbing to the top as a merveilleuse.....

[kate_swynford]

Completely off-topic, but I adore your icon. My favourite portrait of Napoleon ever.

[artaxastra]

Thank you!

[selenak]

I'm betting on Cecile as a survivor, too, if any of them does. The stage version, btw, ends with the Marquise de Merteuil toasting the new year 1789, the implication being clear...