Torchwood Risk Assessment
Apr. 11th, 2023 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThe thing with this reread is, I know I read these when they first came out, but I appear to have retained almost nothing, so it is all once again a surprise. I found this plot to be twisty. Which is either vaguely embarrassing, or neat.
Also it had me *cackling* with laughter at random lines.
It bounced along proper briskly, the new character was interesting and distinctive, Jack, Gwen and Rhys got plenty to do, Ianto got plenty of homophobic insults tossed at him in a vaguely Victorian idiom while being mistaken for the tea boy again.
... Ianto could have been used better.
Almost every scene Ianto is in is part of a running joke where he may make excellent coffee but he makes terrible tea. But in the end that's why team Torchwood dont wonder why their visitor made the tea for them. And why they wont be wondering where she went, because retcon.
Which initially struck me as wildly stupid on Torchwood's part but then I remembered that the vast majority of people don't feel the need to choose their pub drinks in a bottle with the lid on and I'm just odd.
The thing that comes through the rift is a properly mounstrous big scary. It wrecks the Skypoint tower, which is a very unlucky building in Torchwood world.
Also there's a student thinking how a year ago when she moved to Cardiff she couldnt afford a flat anywhere, and now they'd probably even rent the Skypoint apartments to her, because recession, and, like Skypoint mentioned, so many flats had gone up so quickly already with no one thinking who wanted them.
Torchwood takes time to add local flavor to its alien invasions that way. It's distinctive. I like it.
Anyway, I have the kind of headache where I just caught myself knocking on my forehead to make it go away, so I think I'll stop trying to wring out any clever thoughts and just say I rather liked this one, on balance, but the books are still not doing the deep emotional stuff the audios can get into, even with the team down to three.
... time for a paracetamol and a lie down.
Also it had me *cackling* with laughter at random lines.
It bounced along proper briskly, the new character was interesting and distinctive, Jack, Gwen and Rhys got plenty to do, Ianto got plenty of homophobic insults tossed at him in a vaguely Victorian idiom while being mistaken for the tea boy again.
... Ianto could have been used better.
Almost every scene Ianto is in is part of a running joke where he may make excellent coffee but he makes terrible tea. But in the end that's why team Torchwood dont wonder why their visitor made the tea for them. And why they wont be wondering where she went, because retcon.
Which initially struck me as wildly stupid on Torchwood's part but then I remembered that the vast majority of people don't feel the need to choose their pub drinks in a bottle with the lid on and I'm just odd.
The thing that comes through the rift is a properly mounstrous big scary. It wrecks the Skypoint tower, which is a very unlucky building in Torchwood world.
Also there's a student thinking how a year ago when she moved to Cardiff she couldnt afford a flat anywhere, and now they'd probably even rent the Skypoint apartments to her, because recession, and, like Skypoint mentioned, so many flats had gone up so quickly already with no one thinking who wanted them.
Torchwood takes time to add local flavor to its alien invasions that way. It's distinctive. I like it.
Anyway, I have the kind of headache where I just caught myself knocking on my forehead to make it go away, so I think I'll stop trying to wring out any clever thoughts and just say I rather liked this one, on balance, but the books are still not doing the deep emotional stuff the audios can get into, even with the team down to three.
... time for a paracetamol and a lie down.
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Date: 2023-04-11 05:09 am (UTC)Yeah, parts of Risk Assessment were cringy to me. I've only read a few of the TW books and a few of the audios, but yeah, the books can be pretty lackluster. I'm sure one part of it is being able to hear the actors speaking the parts, as well.