Re: Review - Torchwood: Fragments

On 24 Mar, 14:12, The Face of Po <gkenning...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I was hanging out with the cool kids in rec.arts.drwho when
pbow...@xxxxxxx got out a spraycan and scrawled the following:





 On 22 Mar, 14:18, Monsieur Tabernac <mtaber...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:

Moreover, Firefly was a single season (OK, half-season, but of the same
length as a TW season) where the creator had a good idea from the outset
where everything was going, and how these characters were going to
develop.  "Fragments" comes at the end of the second season, and quite a
lot of what we're shown of the characters doesn't fit well with what
they've already done over the last two years.

I didn't notice anything actually inconsistent (though Ianto's
behaviour was too much like new-Ianto and Owen was too much his
caring, sharing season 2 persona, and that at least does seem
inconsistent with his claim in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang that he was only
now ready to settle down), but there's a lot that one would have
expected to come to the fore before now.

I was expecting Owen to get on with dying properly in this one.

I can't imagine why. Maybe a lot of people don't have experience with
the way sci-fi series are done or maybe they just expect too much, but
in my experience any time a major cast change occurs or a regular
character is killed off, it's all over the internet for months
beforehand. Eccleston's regeneration and the departure of Rose were
both heavily rumoured long before the event. If Owen was being dropped
from Torchwood, it's the sort of thing we'd have heard about and
wouldn't be sprung as a surprise - the BBC's not that good at keeping
secrets. What's more, in almost all cass characters are only killed
when the actor has announced they're leaving the show. I think anyone
going into any sci-fi show expecting something genuinely surprising or
unpredictable is setting their sights too high. Killing Owen and
bringing him back as a zombie is already a more drastic character
change than most series of this sort would experiment with.

 My
first reaction was that he'd have been ripped to shreds, and when we had
the outward pan from his face, I was wondering how much of him would be
missing.  Then I reduced my expectations to simply "he won't be able to
do any more active service".  But by the end he was walking again.

Again, I found that predictable - I hadn't expected anything other
than what happened.

Phil
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