Children of Earth again...
Wednesday, 2 September 2009 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightSo it turns out that Crocs, laminate flooring and rain do not play well together. On the bright side, I didn't break anything. On the other side - ouch.
So I cheered myself up by watching Day Five of Torchwood: Children of Earth again, having watched one to four between Friday and last night. No, really, definitely did. *g* Because it is epic. It loses nothing on the re-watch, which I was a bit worried it might, and in fact now I want to watch the whole thing again. Bloody cracking bit of telly, and I'm sorry but the nay-sayers can just all fuck off. (*waves to flist and ducks*) I watched the Declassified bit at the end for the first time too, and I agree with everything RTD said about his decisions - if he'd done anything else it would have been something completely different, and something far less true. And I am so sick of spin.
And Ianto - I'd forgotten/skimmed over/wished otherwise, but he's the one who actually prompts most of Jack's actions through this, certainly in Day Four and Five. "The Jack I knew would have..." he says, so that Jack has to try and face down the 456, has to try and be that kind of hero - but he's not, he's not the Doctor, and it's not Hollywood (You know what I mean *g*) and he's just not the man that can do that - he's not got there yet. One day he will be, we totally have faith that he will be, but... he's not that man yet. And so they fail...
And it's bloody brilliant, and it's about real heroes and what they do to the world because everything has side effects, and everything has consequences...
And I know I'm just rambling to myself, but... it does.
Has anyone else watched it more than once? Bet not... I promise it's worth it, it's totally worth it...
So I cheered myself up by watching Day Five of Torchwood: Children of Earth again, having watched one to four between Friday and last night. No, really, definitely did. *g* Because it is epic. It loses nothing on the re-watch, which I was a bit worried it might, and in fact now I want to watch the whole thing again. Bloody cracking bit of telly, and I'm sorry but the nay-sayers can just all fuck off. (*waves to flist and ducks*) I watched the Declassified bit at the end for the first time too, and I agree with everything RTD said about his decisions - if he'd done anything else it would have been something completely different, and something far less true. And I am so sick of spin.
And Ianto - I'd forgotten/skimmed over/wished otherwise, but he's the one who actually prompts most of Jack's actions through this, certainly in Day Four and Five. "The Jack I knew would have..." he says, so that Jack has to try and face down the 456, has to try and be that kind of hero - but he's not, he's not the Doctor, and it's not Hollywood (You know what I mean *g*) and he's just not the man that can do that - he's not got there yet. One day he will be, we totally have faith that he will be, but... he's not that man yet. And so they fail...
And it's bloody brilliant, and it's about real heroes and what they do to the world because everything has side effects, and everything has consequences...
And I know I'm just rambling to myself, but... it does.
Has anyone else watched it more than once? Bet not... I promise it's worth it, it's totally worth it...
