Comments | sholio: Thoughts on Torchwood: Children of Earth

sholio

Thoughts on Torchwood: Children of Earth

Jul 11, 2009 10:54

Fair warning: in the end, I really liked it. I can see why people might not, and certainly I don't mind if you disagree ... but I did.

( Spoilers for all five episodes )

tv:torchwood

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sheron July 11 2009, 19:21:28 UTC

Again, reviews like this make me want to watch that ending. :)

sholio July 11 2009, 20:50:07 UTC

I think it's worth it. :) But it is dark.

sol_se July 11 2009, 19:32:01 UTC

I agree.

sholio July 11 2009, 20:50:17 UTC

*high-fives* :)

amothea July 11 2009, 20:13:48 UTC

I loved that this mini-series made me think. My husband and I had a discussion on what we would do in their situation. I love when shows make me think though I do think they twisted the knife quite a bit. I'm just glad I wasn't heavily invested in this fandom or the characters.

sholio July 11 2009, 21:44:42 UTC

I do enjoy my escapist fluff, but I also like stories that give me something to keep turning over in my head after the final scene. Lately my entertainment has leaned in the fluffy direction, and while there's nothing automatically wrong with that, I also enjoy being given something dense to chew on.

I'd probably be having more trouble dealing with it if I'd been more emotionally involved with the show and its characters. As it was, I enjoyed it as drama, which is probably how it's best seen.

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sholio July 12 2009, 20:39:15 UTC

I just wonder, what Captain Jack Harkness we'll be seeing in the final Doctor Who's. How can he not be broken after all of this?I'm kinda wondering that too, but DW!Jack has always been a somewhat different character from TW!Jack -- much lighter, less emo and moody. We saw the Torchwood team briefly on DW last season, after Tosh and Owen's deaths, without much sense of gloom despite the events of the finale. It would be odd if they don't address it *somehow*, though. (And, man, this is really making my heart twist, thinking of Jack circa season one of DW -- carefree and lighthearted, at least relative to how he was later, a playboy and action hero rather than the tragic figure that he became ( ... )

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sholio July 12 2009, 20:45:01 UTC

Hee! That phrase just stuck in my brain; I didn't even remember much of the post that inspired it. :D

I'm glad that a lot of my flist seemed to appreciate the show despite its darkness. And I kinda agree with you that this feels like the end. It's certainly the end of Torchwood as we know it. I'm happy to leave the series here -- it went out on a high note, and the characters are moving on to other things; even if they *did* try to, so to speak, put the band back together, it wouldn't really work -- most of them are dead, the Hub's destroyed, Gwen and Rhys have a good life and Jack's moved on to other things. I *like* having this be my last view of them.