Torchwood Travesty - What she said

[mwrgana]

 I just read this reply by loveslashangst  to a comment on her story  CHILDREN OF EARTH, DAYS FOUR AND FIVE, IN THE STYLE OF MOVIES IN FIFTEEN MINUTES.   If you want to feel a bit better about the whole thing, you could do worse than to read this scything take on the story.  Take a squint at it here.   The comments and replies, alone, are worth reading.

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[kindredspirit75]

This is awesome, sweetie! I particularly like the take on Jack's character developement, or rather, the lack of. I, too, couldn't understand why Jack didn't tell Ianto he loved him before Ianto died. Major blunder there as well as several others.

If there IS a TW4, I will only watch because, like most people, you can't turn away from loking at a train wreck.

*hugs*

[mwrgana]

I've decided that, in Ianto's absence, the only thing that will get me watching any S4 (and I've got serious doubts about there being one) will be heavy doses of Jack/John smut - generously sprinkled with Ianto-threesome goodness.

The writers have proved, to everyone's satisfaction, that they can't do plot, so let's just have the pr0n.

(OOOH! I've just had the inspiration for another icon *quickly makes note before she forgets the idea*)

A five-day series on the time loop would grab my attention! Actually, now I think of it, a real-time rendition would be even better!

[cozzybob]

I haven't been able to watch CoE or even most of Torchwood, but I do know the basis of the show (having shamefully seen only the Marsterly episodes thus far), and I'm troubled they'd kill of Ianto so easily. He seemed to be a great character, and the idea of just randomly killing him off so carelessly seems very... well, fanficish. It's the kind of thing you'd see here on LJ and maybe just sigh, but on actual television, where writers are paid to do what they do, it just seems pretty darn shameful.

That said? If they could be paid for something that terrible, maybe there's hope for people who know better and get paid nothing! :D /optimism.

Seriously, though. WTF were they thinking?

[mwrgana]

Honestly? I don't believe that thinking came into it.

At least it puts to the lie the misapprehension that fan-fiction is somehow a lower form of writing.

(Apart, of course, from the type of fan-fiction which is a lower form of writing *g*)

[cozzybob]

Daw! I have noticed that, but to credit there are a few published ex-fanficcers that do give us a bad name. There's one I know on an anime fandom I'm a part of, and then there was that Draco HP chick who published that horrid trilogy... There are authors in all fandoms I believe could really make for an awesome original story, and then others not so much. That's true in all genre's of writing, I suppose, which doesn't make fanfiction lower than other forms, but means it's the same as any other. The only difference is, fanficcers are poor! Wah!

Maybe the dudes at Torchwood should consider asking the fans next time. That's what I would do--when you have fans who love something that much, it seems reasonable to figure out what kind of outcome would suit the story and the fans best. *thinks* At any rate, the ending in CoE sounds rather asinine. We may just have to go on pretending it never happened. Wah!

[teaboyfan]

Thanks for this link; what an awesome take on it. After a month, I'm beginning to be able to laugh through the tears.

[mwrgana]

Glad to oblige.

I was just so pleased to have found such an excellent piece of writing with such ironic comfort.

After a month I can't believe how close to tears I still am - both of grief and anger, but gems like this really, really help.

The follow-up fic is even more awesome and should be commissioned by the BBC as Series 4. Basically, it's scifi writing as it should be -with, yu know, actual thought-out science, rather than pig-ignorance.

Which leads me to this thought:
Q. What's the difference between RTD and Isaac Asimov?
A. Asimov understood what he was writing about.

Plus, of course, that the lovely Isaac is no longer with us, and if I had to chose between one's being dead and the other's not, I know whom I would prefer to be alive and writing...

As soon as I'm awake enough, I'll be posting a link to it.

I love the icon by the way - good old Pythons!