MORE THOUGHTS ON THE ULTIMATE MESSAGE OF DAYS ONE THROUGH FOUR

[tencrush]

We knew this was a retooling of sorts for the show, designed to attract a MASSIVE new and shiny audience, and it has. There are literally MILLIONS of people watching series three, who have NOT seen either series one or two of Torchwood.

And what have these shiny new viewers learned from Children of Earth? Well, see there's these three people in Torchwood, one's like from the future or someting, one's the married pregnant chick and let's just hammer the point home really quite bluntly with neon signs and anvils and such, that one over there? In the suit, see him? IANTO?? IANTO'S THE QUEER ONE.

Have you all got that? Yeah? Good. Right... let's kill the queer one.

Seriously. It's very tasteful, that, Russell. Nicely done.

Comments

[tencrush]

All that background's just there to add to the DRAMA. We have yet to go tell Rhiannon about Ianto, we need to really make people cry again.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

No more five pound notes from Uncle Ianto for you, you little buggers!

[tencrush]

What I was really hoping for, apart, obviously from living!Ianto, was that we could keep his family, whom I love, and especially the girl niece with the adorable grumpy face.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

They are pretty fucking amazing, especially the brother-in-law. Maybe they'll get a show of their own.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

It's really irritating when they introduce characters like this solely for the purpose of ramping up the angst. They make Ianto even dearer to his fans by giving him relatives (and great ones at that) then they kill him.

[tencrush]

Yeah, it's a bit cheap and nasty, that.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Imagine how we would have LOVED to meet this family (or parts of it) in S2 when we were speculating about Ianto's family.

[tencrush]

Yeah. Exactly. They didn't really have any use for Ianto in S2 other than Jack's shag interest, so there was no need for them. NOW, of course, here you go, go cry, bitches.