Torchwood Hidden
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beccaelizabethI'm almost sure I listened this before but I didnt remember it. It's... odd. It just finished but I dont know why. Like, okay, they've figured out the problem, but I dont see why people have stopped shooting them about it. And yet, the book ended.
It had some interesting bits about immortality. ... I'm tempted to say Immortality, since it's about an immortal who is infertile but uses modern technology to clone himself a son. He uses the same new I.D. trick as Immortals from the series, but that's well known. And there's no swords, but there is a society of Watchers with wrist tattoos, only very interventionist, see also the shooting. It seemed a bit referential is all.
It has a few interesting bits, like Owen (probably, the way it's being read out makes this a bit tricky) coming down very anti immortality, because every body rots, that's the way of the universe. But, well, Owen. The wiki says Hidden came out 4 Feb 2008 and Dead Man Walking was broadcast on the 20th Feb 2008.
They discover the immortal DNA has a third strand that has something to do with repairing it. It made me think of River Song but a quick google isnt confirming a connection. They made it sound super fancy. Quite the trick for a medieval alchemist to come up with. Might make more sense for his reputed deal with a devil to involve alien stuff, but, that would only be guessing.
What it doesnt have for most of the adventure is Jack. He's sitting in a police station. Turns out he solved it all a day before the rest of the team and he just has to sit there being accused of murder. Only I dont get why this seems a problem for Torchwood. It's like the only time that Torchwood killing people seems awkward legally? It just keeps Jack out of the story for... reasons?
The interesting bit of a story that turns out to be about immortality and an immortals child is obviously how Jack feels about it, but, no, we'd have to make that bit up.
Also Ianto gets very injured in this one, injured enough it makes it problematic to put it between episodes. Any time all these characters exist together we should notice Ianto being that badly hurt. I know, book continuity, handwave it, but, meh. It was very tense when he got injured and then it was just a way of shushing him out of the story.
I kind of want to take all these elements, transform it *back* into the Highlander fanfic it so clearly wants to be, and do something more interesting with them. Interventionist Watchers might seem a problem but the guy at the center of the story is an alchemist who believes he made himself immortal. In a Highlander context that makes him unique, uniquely plausible, and a temptation to the wrist tattoo brigade. But also, he can be wrong. He just *was* Immortal, and he drank a potion that was toxic enough to kill him. That would make his big discovery the cloned child, and that the child will probably only live to his late twenties. New twist for Immortals, can have children, but they're very extra mortal.
... all of which is miserable actually.
Okay, how about the body walks out of the morgue and Jack has a new friend?
Or, Owen goes to Golarion and starts studying alchemy due to the actual evidence it works.
Nope, still chewing on the ending wondering why it ended. Meh.
Oh well.
It had some interesting bits about immortality. ... I'm tempted to say Immortality, since it's about an immortal who is infertile but uses modern technology to clone himself a son. He uses the same new I.D. trick as Immortals from the series, but that's well known. And there's no swords, but there is a society of Watchers with wrist tattoos, only very interventionist, see also the shooting. It seemed a bit referential is all.
It has a few interesting bits, like Owen (probably, the way it's being read out makes this a bit tricky) coming down very anti immortality, because every body rots, that's the way of the universe. But, well, Owen. The wiki says Hidden came out 4 Feb 2008 and Dead Man Walking was broadcast on the 20th Feb 2008.
They discover the immortal DNA has a third strand that has something to do with repairing it. It made me think of River Song but a quick google isnt confirming a connection. They made it sound super fancy. Quite the trick for a medieval alchemist to come up with. Might make more sense for his reputed deal with a devil to involve alien stuff, but, that would only be guessing.
What it doesnt have for most of the adventure is Jack. He's sitting in a police station. Turns out he solved it all a day before the rest of the team and he just has to sit there being accused of murder. Only I dont get why this seems a problem for Torchwood. It's like the only time that Torchwood killing people seems awkward legally? It just keeps Jack out of the story for... reasons?
The interesting bit of a story that turns out to be about immortality and an immortals child is obviously how Jack feels about it, but, no, we'd have to make that bit up.
Also Ianto gets very injured in this one, injured enough it makes it problematic to put it between episodes. Any time all these characters exist together we should notice Ianto being that badly hurt. I know, book continuity, handwave it, but, meh. It was very tense when he got injured and then it was just a way of shushing him out of the story.
I kind of want to take all these elements, transform it *back* into the Highlander fanfic it so clearly wants to be, and do something more interesting with them. Interventionist Watchers might seem a problem but the guy at the center of the story is an alchemist who believes he made himself immortal. In a Highlander context that makes him unique, uniquely plausible, and a temptation to the wrist tattoo brigade. But also, he can be wrong. He just *was* Immortal, and he drank a potion that was toxic enough to kill him. That would make his big discovery the cloned child, and that the child will probably only live to his late twenties. New twist for Immortals, can have children, but they're very extra mortal.
... all of which is miserable actually.
Okay, how about the body walks out of the morgue and Jack has a new friend?
Or, Owen goes to Golarion and starts studying alchemy due to the actual evidence it works.
Nope, still chewing on the ending wondering why it ended. Meh.
Oh well.