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Torchwood: Another Life
Jan. 31st, 2007 01:29 amVerdict: Yaay.
It's a tiny bit canon adjacent, mostly on timeline: the only space for it is between 1-03 and 1-04, yet Gwen reckons she's been working with Torchwood for months.
I buy these versions of the characters, even though I wouldn't quite write them this way.
Jack is flirty, Ianto is sneaky, Owen is a bastard who gets his heart broke, it's all very familiar really. The only way it's not like fanfic is I actually read a basically gen fic with a major OFC.
I like the bit of detail about how Ianto knows all sorts of trivia so he can do the tourist office thing well, and it came in handy when BBC Wales wouldn't take no for an answer when looking for an interview.
I think I like the plot. It twists around and makes a whole lot of sense and if there's any major holes I missed them, which is good enough.
The technology seems a bit overachieving in places. But I like the way they use it for themey stuff, so can ignore.
They have a Torchwood sub. It's very... puppets in mountains, was my first thought actually.
Everybody gets to kick arse in their own ways.
And it keeps changing point of view, yet manages to not piss me off. I realise this is theoretically possible, yet so often I just end up wanting to ... I don't know, get the camera to stay still or something. And yet this one switches between characters and has whole sections in that 'you' version and I still like the story. Because it's doing something with it. On purpose. And it is themey.
And the title fits the story.
So basically, of the good.
Although I do admit to my mind wandering quite often. To the Jack/Ianto porn version. Or just wandering through the endless MarySue epic in my brain. Tonight involved a xover with SG1 and trying to find Jack on alien planets and only finding not-yet-Captain version because timelines got in a knot. It could be interesting if the whole thing wasn't the usual becca saves teh universe epic.
The OFC in this book? Made much more sense. I didn't want to strangle her once.
Although the whole thing where this is a tie-in book and from early canon does rather take the mystery out of the broad strokes of how her part of the story will go.
But the details remained the right balance of twisty and inevitable, imho, so that was cool.
It is a bit odd, though, trying to trace precisely what the author must have been told about each character. Because it mentions something from out the 1-01 missing scene, and it has to know at least a couple of keywords of 1-04, and then it has stuff like making a big deal of Jack's sense of smell, which isn't exactly the emphasis of TV. But also pretty much fits.
... I'm vaguely wondering, how does one get to write official fanfic, and are they likely to print Jack/Ianto? Because usually the answer to the slash question is an emphatic no, but I'm rather loving that Torchwood isn't usually.
Anyways, next book...
... or noticing that it is past one in the morning. when did it get to be then? well, now, obviously, but... now I'm all upside downy :-(
Possibly time for things-not-books, then.
It's a tiny bit canon adjacent, mostly on timeline: the only space for it is between 1-03 and 1-04, yet Gwen reckons she's been working with Torchwood for months.
I buy these versions of the characters, even though I wouldn't quite write them this way.
Jack is flirty, Ianto is sneaky, Owen is a bastard who gets his heart broke, it's all very familiar really. The only way it's not like fanfic is I actually read a basically gen fic with a major OFC.
I like the bit of detail about how Ianto knows all sorts of trivia so he can do the tourist office thing well, and it came in handy when BBC Wales wouldn't take no for an answer when looking for an interview.
I think I like the plot. It twists around and makes a whole lot of sense and if there's any major holes I missed them, which is good enough.
The technology seems a bit overachieving in places. But I like the way they use it for themey stuff, so can ignore.
They have a Torchwood sub. It's very... puppets in mountains, was my first thought actually.
Everybody gets to kick arse in their own ways.
And it keeps changing point of view, yet manages to not piss me off. I realise this is theoretically possible, yet so often I just end up wanting to ... I don't know, get the camera to stay still or something. And yet this one switches between characters and has whole sections in that 'you' version and I still like the story. Because it's doing something with it. On purpose. And it is themey.
And the title fits the story.
So basically, of the good.
Although I do admit to my mind wandering quite often. To the Jack/Ianto porn version. Or just wandering through the endless MarySue epic in my brain. Tonight involved a xover with SG1 and trying to find Jack on alien planets and only finding not-yet-Captain version because timelines got in a knot. It could be interesting if the whole thing wasn't the usual becca saves teh universe epic.
The OFC in this book? Made much more sense. I didn't want to strangle her once.
Although the whole thing where this is a tie-in book and from early canon does rather take the mystery out of the broad strokes of how her part of the story will go.
But the details remained the right balance of twisty and inevitable, imho, so that was cool.
It is a bit odd, though, trying to trace precisely what the author must have been told about each character. Because it mentions something from out the 1-01 missing scene, and it has to know at least a couple of keywords of 1-04, and then it has stuff like making a big deal of Jack's sense of smell, which isn't exactly the emphasis of TV. But also pretty much fits.
... I'm vaguely wondering, how does one get to write official fanfic, and are they likely to print Jack/Ianto? Because usually the answer to the slash question is an emphatic no, but I'm rather loving that Torchwood isn't usually.
Anyways, next book...
... or noticing that it is past one in the morning. when did it get to be then? well, now, obviously, but... now I'm all upside downy :-(
Possibly time for things-not-books, then.