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

[crossoverman.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen Day Four, but having been spoiled from every angle - and having read your speculation - I'm totally not surprised. And I'm mostly upset because this move up through the BBC has brought compromise after compromise - the sex and language was in our face on BBC3, less so on BBC2 and almost missing on BBC1. And then Ianto was dead and it was gone altogether.

Conversely, somehow, the storytelling has gotten better. Clearly RTD (and Chibnall) have no real idea of how to balance the two things. But as you say, if millions of people are watching TW for the first time, Ianto is the token gay character that has been killed off.

But more than that - season four is just Jack and Gwen and whatever knew characters they keep from this and/or Mickey and/or Martha? Meh.