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

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

Well, they did make a point of having Clem call him "queer". Twice. That seemed to me to move Ianto more firmly into a certain box for the audience, regardless of what he told his sister.

Unless of course, Clem meant "queer" as in weird or wrong and Ianto will revive for some sci-fi reason after the mortician walks by him with a hot cup of java. Only he'll be so pissed at Jack for giving up on him (and, let's face it, coming up with a really s****y plan) that he won't bother hooking up with Team Torchwood again.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Good point about Clem.

I vote for resurrection via java.