Torchwood Fallout
Feb. 23rd, 2024 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethRead by Tom Price and featuring Andy Davidson, this one has a solid mission statement, that Torchwood is gone and the regular people are left coping with the fallout.
But it kind of didnt work for me. Like, it was not, in fact, fallout from Torchwood's actions that kicked off the first half of the story, or even specifically the rift. And the second half was... it relies for a setup on the idea Jack would think it was funny, and with these stakes I just... don't think that works. I mean there's hiding in plain sight and there's modifying museum exhibits and the latter sounds kind of Doctor Who but not very Torchwood? And then the teenager saved the day at the end, which is even more DW.
I dont know what I'd want from the story though.
Actually since it starts with a personal connection to grief and an alien artefact sold on ebay, I'd kind of want Random Shoes? The ending on that one at least paid off on the setup.
I didnt feel like this one did. It did a mad action sequence, is all. You get to know about the girl who found the alien artefact, you hear her relatives died, she talks about the Miracle and how it was two days too late for her grandfather and that didnt seem fair, and in Torchwood that should all be a setup to something dark and cathartic about grief or possibly fates worse than death. But instead, running around a museum breaking into cases. It almost works, it has the right elements, but making the alien a shapeshifter rather than a possessing entity takes all the oomph out of it.
It wasnt very satisfying. I'd keep a lot of the people bits but swap out everything after they left Cardiff I think.
But it wasnt like it was bad either. Just... left me with that niggly rewrite feeling.
But it kind of didnt work for me. Like, it was not, in fact, fallout from Torchwood's actions that kicked off the first half of the story, or even specifically the rift. And the second half was... it relies for a setup on the idea Jack would think it was funny, and with these stakes I just... don't think that works. I mean there's hiding in plain sight and there's modifying museum exhibits and the latter sounds kind of Doctor Who but not very Torchwood? And then the teenager saved the day at the end, which is even more DW.
I dont know what I'd want from the story though.
Actually since it starts with a personal connection to grief and an alien artefact sold on ebay, I'd kind of want Random Shoes? The ending on that one at least paid off on the setup.
I didnt feel like this one did. It did a mad action sequence, is all. You get to know about the girl who found the alien artefact, you hear her relatives died, she talks about the Miracle and how it was two days too late for her grandfather and that didnt seem fair, and in Torchwood that should all be a setup to something dark and cathartic about grief or possibly fates worse than death. But instead, running around a museum breaking into cases. It almost works, it has the right elements, but making the alien a shapeshifter rather than a possessing entity takes all the oomph out of it.
It wasnt very satisfying. I'd keep a lot of the people bits but swap out everything after they left Cardiff I think.
But it wasnt like it was bad either. Just... left me with that niggly rewrite feeling.