Torchwood: Asylum
Jul. 1st, 2009 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethYaay Andy! *cheerleader*
Jack is being a jerk in this one. Makes sense, cause someone set the policies and he's the boss. But still, jerk.
And hypocrite. Which Ianto I think called him on. Future people running around having knowledge and leaving their DNA all over the place! Oh noes! But he's being more careful recently... :eyeroll:
Sometimes you wonder how Jack manages at all though. I mean, what can he do? Get frozen until after he was born? Hell of a long time. And he'd miss all everyone. And quite possibly the world would end when he's not looking, which also messes up the nonintervention policy.
Anyway, today:
I liked the story.
I think made up mixed up language works better on radio than in books because on the page you tend to get stuck, get hung up on whatever doesn't fit, but radio keeps going so it's just part of the word set.
Story pulled together nicely, character was interesting enough, ending was win.
and did I mention yaay Andy? From that 'no CRB check no going near her' bit onwards, all made of win. Doing things right! Showing up Torchwood! Policy change FTW!
I like how the language was a mystery that revealed slowly instead of a gimmick. I seen it done wrong waaaaay too often.
Having read the three books in a row and then listened to this the thing where once per story Gwen thinks about, is asked about, mentions not having children seems to be a theme. Gee I wonder why. (All I know about the new series is the title. It has children in it. Makes things unsubtle.)
Today's story: Yaay!
Tomorrow more story: coolness!
... though we're going to burn through 8 new stories in a week and a bit. I still don't see the logic there.
Jack is being a jerk in this one. Makes sense, cause someone set the policies and he's the boss. But still, jerk.
And hypocrite. Which Ianto I think called him on. Future people running around having knowledge and leaving their DNA all over the place! Oh noes! But he's being more careful recently... :eyeroll:
Sometimes you wonder how Jack manages at all though. I mean, what can he do? Get frozen until after he was born? Hell of a long time. And he'd miss all everyone. And quite possibly the world would end when he's not looking, which also messes up the nonintervention policy.
Anyway, today:
I liked the story.
I think made up mixed up language works better on radio than in books because on the page you tend to get stuck, get hung up on whatever doesn't fit, but radio keeps going so it's just part of the word set.
Story pulled together nicely, character was interesting enough, ending was win.
and did I mention yaay Andy? From that 'no CRB check no going near her' bit onwards, all made of win. Doing things right! Showing up Torchwood! Policy change FTW!
I like how the language was a mystery that revealed slowly instead of a gimmick. I seen it done wrong waaaaay too often.
Having read the three books in a row and then listened to this the thing where once per story Gwen thinks about, is asked about, mentions not having children seems to be a theme. Gee I wonder why. (All I know about the new series is the title. It has children in it. Makes things unsubtle.)
Today's story: Yaay!
Tomorrow more story: coolness!
... though we're going to burn through 8 new stories in a week and a bit. I still don't see the logic there.