Some Torchwood things...

[tencrush]

• Okay, so my rewrite saddened you, that's fine. I went with what I went with in order to show that even given the brief, which let's just assume was:
  1)Ditch the gay relationship
  2)Get rid of Ianto
  3)Emotionally break Jack
  4)Set up the Gwen show
  an ending still could have been plotted that was more respectful towards the character of Ianto Jones and the Jack/Ianto relationship, while still permanently getting rid of him and not just using him as a lame plot device. I've always advocated retcon, because I really feel that the notion of Torchwood Kills People has been adequately explored with Suzie, Owen and Tosh, while the notion that Torchwood Breaks People In Various Other Interesting Ways has not, and Ianto would have been perfect fodder for that lesson, given his devotion to the organisation. So them's my reasonings behind that, I stand by it as being a better ending. Plus: Wandering Cock.


• Poke your friends, we only need three more members to get ninja_teaboy up to 300. For some reason I am desperate for this to happen. Also, it's where most of the funtimes are at at the moment, and will probably, after CoE finishes airing in the States, become an official CANONDENIALIST community, where Ianto is totally not dead. At all.


• I said I wanted to do an I-AM-KATEORMAN style info-gathering project about what we, as core Torchwood fans, i.e. people who already watched Torchwood and were eagerly anticipating its return, were promised in interviews, or were (mis?)led to believe might happen in Series 3, just to see if there was actual real misinformation going on, and if we truly were led to believe we were getting something other than what we got. Fortunately, kelticbanshee got in there before me. Here is the post where she is asking for your contributions in the way of links to interviews and pre-CoE press, so have a look at what's already there and add in what you feel may be appropriate THEY-LIED-TO-US-style links. I am eagerly anticipating what will come of this.

I really didn't want to go into the homophobia debate, but I feel a post brewing about the messages sent by Torchwood about homosexuality and bisexuality. I apologise in advance if I get tl;dr about that topic some time in the next few days, but I feel I might need to poop that out regardless of my never-wanting-to-talk-about-CoE-again. I need my brain for other stuff.