Manic Monday
Yes, me again. I'm bored, so I've just started typing. (The reason I'm bored is: I'm doing the email-part of customer care at a school catering company. At the moment we've got summer holidays in most of germany. Go figure.)
There's much pissing me off at work at the moment, but I'm not comfortable with going into that. Much. It's stuff like... my boss regularly shouting at people so it can be heard through the whole building (for, say, walking through the wrong door). Or that they keep telling us that we are supposed to work with individual responsibility but we still have to write every mail concerning customer stuff with our (other) boss in CC. Or not having permanent stand-ins and having to find one for every holiday we take, and needing their undersign with our application for leave... and those are just minor gripes, I won't start getting into the pay. I only get by so well because I'm still living at home. *sigh*
Well, so much for not wanting to go into that. But we just had a meeting and we are all a bit riled up at the moment, so I need to vent some steam.
Another thing I'm... well, not riled up about, more frustrated and undecided on how I'm feeling... Russel T. Davies, Ianto, and the whole Torchwood: Children of Earth mess. I'm not sure what to think anymore. Yes, of course I'm grateful to RTD for giving us the new Doctor Who and Torchwood and all these wonderful characters. And yes, it's his right to do with them as he pleases. But that doesn't change him being an arrogant twat when it comes to fan interaction. Yes man, you won BAFTAs and always get major ratings, but guess what, your shit still isn't any more golden than mine. I'm not one who sends coffee to the BBC in hope of making them revive Ianto, but I grieved for him, and not just because he was OMGSOCUTE. He was one of the best and for most identifiable characters I have seen in a long time. And this was NOT only due to the writing but just as much, or even more, due to GDL's performance. He was trying to come to terms with his sexuality and with (as we only had a chance to find out now) his family, he was constantly underappreciated and still worked through it, he had a slightly evil sense of humour, he was insecure despite his many skills, he did some really stupid stuff because he was torn between two lovers... well, I found myself there and there was still so much to explore about his character... *sigh*
Don't get me wrong though; I don't hold a grudge against anyone in the production team (more of an eye-roll inducing annoyance), and I will keep watching Torchwood, because Captain Jack still means more to me than any other character on tv ever did.
One other thing I hope though, is that, if we get a series 4, RTD doesn't return to those "wistful glances between Jack and Gwen". Just let it stay a teacher/pupil relationship, let her have her lasagne-filled life with Rhys and her kid. I almost always liked Gwen, even at her most idiotic. Because, again, I saw much of myself there... I have made similar mistakes (not the releasing aliens thing, but I was unfaithful, which lead to a break-up and a slightly complicated new relationship, though that's a story for another day). And I've learned from my mistakes, some lessons more and some less painful. But, to get back to it, imagine Gwen and Jack? Come on... I just can't see Jack entering any sort of fluffy family life anymore. He has, I think, learned that he won't do himself a favour by striking roots anywhere. He can have, at least for a while, but he can't hold, though he does try it now and then. So I just hope that, whereever he is now, he heals... at least a bit. (That reminds me of a quote: Every day hurts, the last one kills.)
Oh, but I'm rambling and getting emotional. And I should get back to work, there are... count them... two new mails. Yeeha. So that's it for now. Maybe I'll write up something about the three latest Torchwood novels soon.
Til then,
Fleur
There's much pissing me off at work at the moment, but I'm not comfortable with going into that. Much. It's stuff like... my boss regularly shouting at people so it can be heard through the whole building (for, say, walking through the wrong door). Or that they keep telling us that we are supposed to work with individual responsibility but we still have to write every mail concerning customer stuff with our (other) boss in CC. Or not having permanent stand-ins and having to find one for every holiday we take, and needing their undersign with our application for leave... and those are just minor gripes, I won't start getting into the pay. I only get by so well because I'm still living at home. *sigh*
Well, so much for not wanting to go into that. But we just had a meeting and we are all a bit riled up at the moment, so I need to vent some steam.
Another thing I'm... well, not riled up about, more frustrated and undecided on how I'm feeling... Russel T. Davies, Ianto, and the whole Torchwood: Children of Earth mess. I'm not sure what to think anymore. Yes, of course I'm grateful to RTD for giving us the new Doctor Who and Torchwood and all these wonderful characters. And yes, it's his right to do with them as he pleases. But that doesn't change him being an arrogant twat when it comes to fan interaction. Yes man, you won BAFTAs and always get major ratings, but guess what, your shit still isn't any more golden than mine. I'm not one who sends coffee to the BBC in hope of making them revive Ianto, but I grieved for him, and not just because he was OMGSOCUTE. He was one of the best and for most identifiable characters I have seen in a long time. And this was NOT only due to the writing but just as much, or even more, due to GDL's performance. He was trying to come to terms with his sexuality and with (as we only had a chance to find out now) his family, he was constantly underappreciated and still worked through it, he had a slightly evil sense of humour, he was insecure despite his many skills, he did some really stupid stuff because he was torn between two lovers... well, I found myself there and there was still so much to explore about his character... *sigh*
Don't get me wrong though; I don't hold a grudge against anyone in the production team (more of an eye-roll inducing annoyance), and I will keep watching Torchwood, because Captain Jack still means more to me than any other character on tv ever did.
One other thing I hope though, is that, if we get a series 4, RTD doesn't return to those "wistful glances between Jack and Gwen". Just let it stay a teacher/pupil relationship, let her have her lasagne-filled life with Rhys and her kid. I almost always liked Gwen, even at her most idiotic. Because, again, I saw much of myself there... I have made similar mistakes (not the releasing aliens thing, but I was unfaithful, which lead to a break-up and a slightly complicated new relationship, though that's a story for another day). And I've learned from my mistakes, some lessons more and some less painful. But, to get back to it, imagine Gwen and Jack? Come on... I just can't see Jack entering any sort of fluffy family life anymore. He has, I think, learned that he won't do himself a favour by striking roots anywhere. He can have, at least for a while, but he can't hold, though he does try it now and then. So I just hope that, whereever he is now, he heals... at least a bit. (That reminds me of a quote: Every day hurts, the last one kills.)
Oh, but I'm rambling and getting emotional. And I should get back to work, there are... count them... two new mails. Yeeha. So that's it for now. Maybe I'll write up something about the three latest Torchwood novels soon.
Til then,
Fleur