And again with the final word...

[tencrush]

Yes, yet again I have FINAL WORDS about Children of Earth.

See this interview here.

DAN: Can you confirm or deny the death of the Torchwood pterodactyl?

RTD: (big laugh) I think she must have been blown up in that blast.Yeah, laugh it up, Russell. Again, you've proved to me what an utter dick you are

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[nostalgia_lj]

Yeah I do wonder if I'd have liked it as much if I cared about the characters and had thought it was Good Telly before it suddenly went dark'n'edgy.

[tencrush]

It gave me huge lols for two years, I was quite invested in the lols it gave me and the mankissing and the stupid fucking embossed car and the pterodactyl and the old ladies knowing about Torchwood. I'm all for SRS DRAMA, don't get me wrong, but he buttraped MY cracky gay show to write it, and it upsets me that he thinks he can just DO THAT without so much as a thought about what's gone before.

[nostalgia_lj]

I liked bits of old skool Torchwood as Good Telly but mostly it made me lol.

[mellacita]

He laughed about killing the pteradactyl. I have no words. D:

Problem is, Rusty, if this was your vision, if this was what you wanted from your darker, edgier Whovian drama, then THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

*nods*

We were told from the beginning TW was scary and dangerous and gritty and grown-up Who, but we didn't really see it until the 26th episode (perhaps the 24th, as it was a bit dark). Then, between episode 26 and 30, we see what was originally intended, but by then the world had been built. A world with risen mittens and life knives and stopwatches and fighting with smoke monsters and sex gas and miraculous ressurection and metal bikinis and barbeque sauce and emo space whales and nostravites.

Hey, we got to keep the cool alien contact lenses though. Hooray!

[tencrush]

I WANT MY EMO SPACE WHALE SHOW BACK.

[misscam]

I was never really into Torchwood. Watched it a bit on and off, but for various reasons it just never clicked.

But when I peeked at Children of Earth I had a serious of moment "... Wait, when did this become Battlestar Galactica all of a sudden?" That shift in tone was a bit abrupt even for us more casual viewers. If the show had spent a season building to that more dark feel, maybe wouldn't have jarred so much. For me at least.

[misscam]

Thanks for the link to the interview. This was interesting:
RTD: No, to be honest, we don't take fan thinking into consideration. Certainly not with casting, certainly not with script. That's never an issue and never will be, I think.

I am waiting for the day those words come back and bite Rusty in the ass.

[timberwolfoz]

DAN: Can you confirm or deny the death of the Torchwood pterodactyl?

RTD: (big laugh) I think she must have been blown up in that blast.

Oh, RTD, you prick.

[satanassa]

Just came back from reading a discussion on torch_wood on this same interview and some RTD arse-kisser was blathering about how RTD is a successful writer and we silly fans are not, therefore he should not be criticised and he does not have to please anybody but himself.
Yeah sure, whatever.

By the way, I've read in many places that the premise of CoE was taken from some other show of decades ago. RTD and other writers themselves don't seem to be saying so however. So are we to suppose that the 'creative' endeavour of CoE is nothing but plagiarism?

[eandh99]

Google "Quatermass" and see for yourself. Even the aliens-using-kids-as-drugs and the killing the grandchild to save the world.

[satanassa]

Thanks. My goodness, if the whole thing was copied from an earlier show, then why exactly should RTD get any kind of kudos at all?! I mean, there are people saying that it was brilliant TV and should win awards and stuff, whereas it turns out the whole thing is just a rehash. A rehash which destroyed something that was actually original, like Torchwood.

One might as well give John Barrowman awards for 'best songwriter' for his tepid covers of old favourites!

[eandh99]

Because this praise comes from people who are too young or unaware of the genre to know it's a copy? I feel much the same about his DW script Midnight, which I thought was just a rehashed plot with two-dimensional characters, but which got praised as though it were War and Peace.