I tend to notice cells because my Buffyverse guys ended up in them in key moments in their lives.
Initiative cells, designed for holding demons.
First seen they're plain white boxes, one wall made of glass. Food drops in from the ceiling. No noticeable facilities.
When they lock up one of their own soldiers he gets a cell that has the same basic shape but also a bunk and basic prison cell toilet facilities.
So it's an indicator of how they're treating their nonhuman prisoners inhumanely.
Torchwood? Compare/contrast Torchwood cells with the ones we see the police use. Dark/light dirty/clean etc etc So even the creep from 1-05 gets a nicer cell than the weevils usually do.
I liked it in 1-13 when the policeman was going on about how all this being from the distant past figures with regards to the man's rights and Team Torchwood were just drugging him and dragging him away. Nice bit of contrast.
Initiative cells for demons probably weren't meant for the long term. Just observation boxes really. And fair enough, rooms for questioning are going to be big observation boxes, not nice comfy hotel places.
But no privacy is one thing, no potty is quite another.
So it's an attitude indicator.
You know, if you ignore the fact it's probably just that the set designer hasn't ever spent time in a cell, or that there might be facilities and the camera hasn't pointed at them or I failed to notice.
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Date: 2007-02-03 05:17 pm (UTC)I tend to notice cells because my Buffyverse guys ended up in them in key moments in their lives.
Initiative cells, designed for holding demons.
First seen they're plain white boxes, one wall made of glass. Food drops in from the ceiling. No noticeable facilities.
When they lock up one of their own soldiers he gets a cell that has the same basic shape but also a bunk and basic prison cell toilet facilities.
So it's an indicator of how they're treating their nonhuman prisoners inhumanely.
Torchwood? Compare/contrast Torchwood cells with the ones we see the police use. Dark/light dirty/clean etc etc So even the creep from 1-05 gets a nicer cell than the weevils usually do.
I liked it in 1-13 when the policeman was going on about how all this being from the distant past figures with regards to the man's rights and Team Torchwood were just drugging him and dragging him away. Nice bit of contrast.
Initiative cells for demons probably weren't meant for the long term. Just observation boxes really. And fair enough, rooms for questioning are going to be big observation boxes, not nice comfy hotel places.
But no privacy is one thing, no potty is quite another.
So it's an attitude indicator.
You know, if you ignore the fact it's probably just that the set designer hasn't ever spent time in a cell, or that there might be facilities and the camera hasn't pointed at them or I failed to notice.