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beccaelizabeth) wrote2023-05-06 06:30 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2023-05-06 06:30 pm
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 they were captured, possessed, driven around by aliens, shown flash forwards that claimed to be a potential future where they were possessed, and then Jack says that's just how these aliens communicate anyway, so, it wasnt even a little bit true.
Except the bit where Ianto would do whatever it took to save Jack, including dying to free him.
That was in character.
Everything else turned out to be a never happened puppet show, so I dont know why I bothered reading.
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.
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 they were captured, possessed, driven around by aliens, shown flash forwards that claimed to be a potential future where they were possessed, and then Jack says that's just how these aliens communicate anyway, so, it wasnt even a little bit true.
Except the bit where Ianto would do whatever it took to save Jack, including dying to free him.
That was in character.
Everything else turned out to be a never happened puppet show, so I dont know why I bothered reading.
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.