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Review of Torchwood Children of Earth
Obviously there will be spoilers for all 5 days so it's below a cut. Although I doubt anyone will read it anyway as it's so long. I guess I just wanted to write it as a document of my thoughts and to get things off my chest.
Ok, so I was going to try and review it in a subjective way... although I know that'll be impossible now. I thought waiting a few days for the anger and hurt to settle down would be a good idea though, to try and make my opinions a little more non-emotionally based, but again I think it will always impair my opinion on it, not matter how long I wait.
I guess it would have been better to watch it if you're a new viewer, and not emotionally connected to the characters, unlike those of us who have watched it from the beginning. Especially when Ianto is... was your favourite character, as he was mine. I may be a little blurry on the details, since I've been unable to bring myself to watch it again, and I don't think I'll be able to for a while, knowing what's coming.
If I was able to think of it from a purely subjective point of view, I guess it was an amazing piece of Sci-fi drama. Intense, thrilling, emotional, chilling, and mostly unpredictable. Certainly the end with Jack sacrificing his grandson like that. I did make a journal entry after the Day Two episode on how much I was enjoying things... oh how that changed.
I've already done a journal entry on Ianto's death, and how much that hurt and angered me, so I'll *try* and avoid ranting about that again (although it wont be easy). However, the other main thing that irked me about the show, which other people have metnioned too on the Torchwood group, was the creeping homophobia that got into it, or feeling the need to constantly bring up the fact that Ianto was bisexual.
In series 2 of Torchwood, there was no song and dance about Jack and Ianto being a couple. It was portrayed as being just as normal as the hetero relationships, and I don't just mean by the characters, I mean by the writers too. There was no sense of: OMG 2 male characters are having a relationship, let's mention it every 5 minutes! Like there was with TW 3.
It was mentioned several times throughout the show, including the words queer and bender. Now, I know those were by Ianto's brother in law, and was supposedly done to show how immature he is. Bit it was still mentioned further throughout the episodes, when I didn't really think there was any need to.
I guess the one that irked me most was when Andy and Gwen were going to tell Ianto's sister that he was dead, and Andy said something like "So, was Ianto gay?" in a comical way. Ok, so feelings were still raw at that point, but I thought that was really out of order. Ianto was dead, and they're trying to use his sexuality as a comedy point?
I guess I'll skip over Ianto's death, because I have ranted about that already, and I could go on for pages and pages about it! Not only the fact that he died, but how it was done, and how it was handled, by both the writers and the characters... anyway, as I say, skipping that before I get into another rant!
As for Jack, just OMG! Alright, I know he was in a tough situation, I mean, what would anyone do? You have a choice of killing one child, your own grandson, or either letting the government hand over 10% of all children, or having the 456 destroy the whole human population, and with it all the children on Earth.
A lot of people say Jack has actually regressed as a character due to that, rather than grown and improved as characters should do. I'm not sure how I feel. My first thought was that he was a monster... but again, what would anyone do in that situation? No-one can be sure.
I will never liked how it ended. Especially with the "6 months later" bit, and the fact that Ianto wasn't even vocally acknowledged in that moment. It kinda pissed me off that Gwen came out of it alright as usual. In TW 1 she lost Rhys, but he got brought back, and in this she lost nothing, in fact she gained a baby. She seems to be the only one to come out unscathed from these things.
...Well, that didn't end up very subjective at all did it? Lol. It just ended up pretty much as one big rant. I guess you cant hide feelings.
Stay Beautiful,
Aissa.
Ok, so I was going to try and review it in a subjective way... although I know that'll be impossible now. I thought waiting a few days for the anger and hurt to settle down would be a good idea though, to try and make my opinions a little more non-emotionally based, but again I think it will always impair my opinion on it, not matter how long I wait.
I guess it would have been better to watch it if you're a new viewer, and not emotionally connected to the characters, unlike those of us who have watched it from the beginning. Especially when Ianto is... was your favourite character, as he was mine. I may be a little blurry on the details, since I've been unable to bring myself to watch it again, and I don't think I'll be able to for a while, knowing what's coming.
If I was able to think of it from a purely subjective point of view, I guess it was an amazing piece of Sci-fi drama. Intense, thrilling, emotional, chilling, and mostly unpredictable. Certainly the end with Jack sacrificing his grandson like that. I did make a journal entry after the Day Two episode on how much I was enjoying things... oh how that changed.
I've already done a journal entry on Ianto's death, and how much that hurt and angered me, so I'll *try* and avoid ranting about that again (although it wont be easy). However, the other main thing that irked me about the show, which other people have metnioned too on the Torchwood group, was the creeping homophobia that got into it, or feeling the need to constantly bring up the fact that Ianto was bisexual.
In series 2 of Torchwood, there was no song and dance about Jack and Ianto being a couple. It was portrayed as being just as normal as the hetero relationships, and I don't just mean by the characters, I mean by the writers too. There was no sense of: OMG 2 male characters are having a relationship, let's mention it every 5 minutes! Like there was with TW 3.
It was mentioned several times throughout the show, including the words queer and bender. Now, I know those were by Ianto's brother in law, and was supposedly done to show how immature he is. Bit it was still mentioned further throughout the episodes, when I didn't really think there was any need to.
I guess the one that irked me most was when Andy and Gwen were going to tell Ianto's sister that he was dead, and Andy said something like "So, was Ianto gay?" in a comical way. Ok, so feelings were still raw at that point, but I thought that was really out of order. Ianto was dead, and they're trying to use his sexuality as a comedy point?
I guess I'll skip over Ianto's death, because I have ranted about that already, and I could go on for pages and pages about it! Not only the fact that he died, but how it was done, and how it was handled, by both the writers and the characters... anyway, as I say, skipping that before I get into another rant!
As for Jack, just OMG! Alright, I know he was in a tough situation, I mean, what would anyone do? You have a choice of killing one child, your own grandson, or either letting the government hand over 10% of all children, or having the 456 destroy the whole human population, and with it all the children on Earth.
A lot of people say Jack has actually regressed as a character due to that, rather than grown and improved as characters should do. I'm not sure how I feel. My first thought was that he was a monster... but again, what would anyone do in that situation? No-one can be sure.
I will never liked how it ended. Especially with the "6 months later" bit, and the fact that Ianto wasn't even vocally acknowledged in that moment. It kinda pissed me off that Gwen came out of it alright as usual. In TW 1 she lost Rhys, but he got brought back, and in this she lost nothing, in fact she gained a baby. She seems to be the only one to come out unscathed from these things.
...Well, that didn't end up very subjective at all did it? Lol. It just ended up pretty much as one big rant. I guess you cant hide feelings.
Stay Beautiful,
Aissa.