Twilight Streets

Today I reread Torchwood The Twilight Streets.
I had forgotten it, and that turns out to be because it was boring and pointless.
No one was in character for most of the book, and that turns out to be because ( Read more... )

Messy mythology, boring 'motivations', makes me annoyed I spent the time rereading it.



I think at this point I should just remember to search up my own earlier opinions.
... aaaand my earlier opinions were unalloyed approval... wtf earlier self?
https://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/1359866.html

Okay, you know what, I can see why it is interesting if you take it as a near miss of possibly in character bits, but, on this reread I... don't.



Oh, also, there's a paragraph Ianto says that even Gwen on the page blames on mysterious outside influences, but it's just so biphobic I don't understand why anyone thinks it belongs in a story.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1017820-oh-come-on-smile-lisa-jack-being-bisexual-is-hardly
It doesnt even make sense.

... it might have vaguely pissed me off for the rest of the book actually.



Okay, my opinion on this book changed quite a lot.

Onwards to something else to do.