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

Re: The More things Change the More they stay the same

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

And personally, I like JB, but I feel sooooo betrayed by his statements about how the relationship was going to deepen in S3. Guess I didn't understand that a deep relationship meant 6 feet under.

Heh.

You mean you aren't impressed that he'll remember Ianto 4evah??

No, me either. I'd rather having a living Ianto who had been entirely forgotten by Jack, frankly.

Re: The More things Change the More they stay the same

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I wouldn't have minded if Jack had been clear that he doesn't do relationships and Ianto either accepts or rejects that. In fact, I would have been fine if he had rejected it and they devleoped a snarky non-sexual relationship.

What I don't like is being manipulated unfairly. Especially with the promotional lovey-dovey stuff. With the "Oh, the relationship is sooo going to develop in S3."

Re: The More things Change the More they stay the same

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

They've been playing us all along IMO.