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gina_r_snape) wrote2009-07-11 01:32 am
gina_r_snape) wrote2009-07-11 01:32 am
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Torchwood Day 5
The last cut always goes the deepest.
And so it goes with Torchwood.
So it seems Captain Jack Harkness is gonna have some lifelong issues, yeah? And he turns out to be possibly more heartless than we ever thought possible of Severus Snape (who turned out to be a noble romantic with a hard shell in the end as I always suspected). So Jack decided to use the one to protect the many. And the one he chose was his own. Does that make him noble?
Well, I think it actually takes a special level of self-loathing and detachment from human connection to do that and yet I have a sneaking suspicion he feels not as conflicted about his decision as he'd have others believe. He can run away from the earth, but he can never run away from himself. Yet somehow, I have no doubt he will remain a charming bastard.
Would it have been better to use a child that was already dying? And, the children used by 456 were drugs? Really? Drugs? Wouldn't ingestion of so much despair eventually kill them like a bad batch of heroin? Or were they junkies for any kind of emotions at all?
And what's RTD's game, anyway? Was he trying to end the series to screw the network? We know the ratings went through the roof--and for good reason. But how the heck do you follow up a thing like that? Jack is gone and Torchwood has been demolished.
I recall the Doctor once squinted sideways at Jack for taking up with the Torchwood peeps. Is it possible Jack was more Torchwood than we ever knew? Or did they eventually get to him?
Is RTD a libertarian? An anarchist? He really really REALLY seems to hate government, and elected officials in particular. As for the woman who "offered" to take over for the PM, she was no better than the PM in the final episode. We are lead to believe that life goes on, and that life includes governmental corruption of the highest order.
At least Gwen and Rhys seem pretty happy. That's something, right?
My brain can't wrap itself with any more sophistication than that right now. I keep making parallels to Dollhouse in my mind, the ability of people to turn off their humanity for the sake of self-preservation and commodify victims for their own gain. But that's worthy of another entry.
Your thoughts, flist?
And so it goes with Torchwood.
So it seems Captain Jack Harkness is gonna have some lifelong issues, yeah? And he turns out to be possibly more heartless than we ever thought possible of Severus Snape (who turned out to be a noble romantic with a hard shell in the end as I always suspected). So Jack decided to use the one to protect the many. And the one he chose was his own. Does that make him noble?
Well, I think it actually takes a special level of self-loathing and detachment from human connection to do that and yet I have a sneaking suspicion he feels not as conflicted about his decision as he'd have others believe. He can run away from the earth, but he can never run away from himself. Yet somehow, I have no doubt he will remain a charming bastard.
Would it have been better to use a child that was already dying? And, the children used by 456 were drugs? Really? Drugs? Wouldn't ingestion of so much despair eventually kill them like a bad batch of heroin? Or were they junkies for any kind of emotions at all?
And what's RTD's game, anyway? Was he trying to end the series to screw the network? We know the ratings went through the roof--and for good reason. But how the heck do you follow up a thing like that? Jack is gone and Torchwood has been demolished.
I recall the Doctor once squinted sideways at Jack for taking up with the Torchwood peeps. Is it possible Jack was more Torchwood than we ever knew? Or did they eventually get to him?
Is RTD a libertarian? An anarchist? He really really REALLY seems to hate government, and elected officials in particular. As for the woman who "offered" to take over for the PM, she was no better than the PM in the final episode. We are lead to believe that life goes on, and that life includes governmental corruption of the highest order.
At least Gwen and Rhys seem pretty happy. That's something, right?
My brain can't wrap itself with any more sophistication than that right now. I keep making parallels to Dollhouse in my mind, the ability of people to turn off their humanity for the sake of self-preservation and commodify victims for their own gain. But that's worthy of another entry.
Your thoughts, flist?