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I have listened to 11 discs of story and only written up parts, so despite feeling like I need to pay more attention and apply more brain, I'll do a very brief summary of my reactions.

I listened to most of these while playing Sims and mostly learned that Sims requires enough concentration that the stories lose some impact.

Torchwood 21 We Always Get Out Alive ( Read more... )

Torchwood 22 Goodbye Piccadilly
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Torchwood 23 Instant Karma
Messy deaths and hospitalisations. Also a dead dog. ( Read more... )

Torchwood 24 Deadbeat Escape
TW: Suicide. ( Read more... )



Torchwood: Believe
This one has the whole original Torchwood cast, Owen, Ianto, Jack, Gwen and Tosh.
It also needs a lot of content warnings, and I wrote a much longer thing before deciding it was too judgey without relistening to be sure of my quotes.
It is dark.

Warnings for ( Read more... )


So that's just the warnings, and I'm not sure of my wording on them.

It is a whole lot of nasty. It's about the worst bits of being human, ( Read more... )

Wanting to listen again to be sure of your arguments when you pick a fight with it isn't exactly a recommendation. But it's doing Torchwood things in Torchwood ways with Torchwood characters. Just in those ways that make me remember I don't always like Torchwood.


So there's that.



I also listened to The Lives of Captain Jack.

I will definitely be doing that again.

It's... I was going to say it's much less dark than Torchwood, but it does start with a story where ( Read more... ) But the balance between horror and hope ends up on the side that has a functional if frustrating future, so that's a lot lighter in tone than some of the Torchwood.


... sometimes I sit down and actually think about the kind of plots that are perfectly normal in, for instance, Doctor Who, and I just... what are we like?


But, Lives of Captain Jack: recommended. Will listen again. Plenty of good bits, general arc towards hope and possibility.

... even if you do remember where in Jack's life these fit in, and how often things are not hopeful for him, it's like, look, there's some good bits too.


1 The Year After I Died
Right after Jack gets left behind by the Doctor, he doesn't know about his new party trick yet, and he's really, really insistent he is not a hero. But he saves the day anyway.
The one with the ( Read more... ).

2 Wednesdays For Beginners
Jack and Jackie Tyler. The way Jackie copes with the extreme weirdness by just being extremely mundane at it is brilliant. Good story, good resolution.

3 One Enchanted Evening
That time the Doctor gave Jack a note, 'his name's Alonso Frame'.
Because obviously that wouldn't be as simple as the part where they start the story heading back to Alonso's room...
Made me ship Jack/Alonso. Except mostly Alonso/Anything Actually Working. Or Alonso/ A Nice Quiet Evening. Which come to think Jack obviously needs too, so they should just end up together having absolutely nothing plot like happen. Unfortunately they got plot. There was adventure and kissing and sad bits and maximum frustration and Jack having stuff happen to him that Jack can survive and... I'm going to listen to this again extra times, this was good.
It was also the one with ( Read more... )
It's good use of character and I liked it.

4 Month 25
At the Time Agency under a new to us name. Javic Piotr Thane. The TARDIS wiki is ambiguous on if this is an alias or his original name. I vote alias. Sending a time agent out using his original name all over history would be wildly incompetent.
Way back when, Jack says in the Doctor Dances, he woke up and discovered the Time Agency had stolen two years of his memories.
This story is about that day.
And then it gets complicated.

I liked it, liked how it wove elements together from other audios. Also liked how ( Read more... )


Put together these stories fill in where it's logically implied story could be, and are plausible versions of a guy who has obviously changed kind of a lot over his lifetime... and also not very much. He's fun like this.

I enjoyed listening to this set.




Verdict: I like audio adventures a lot more when I'm not playing a game at the same time
Torchwood varies wildly in tone and possibly quality, which is very much a match for the TV series
and I'm going to keep buying these even if they're occasionally frustrating.

I'd rather have new stuff to argue with I guess...

But sometimes they are good.

That was more interesting than I remember. Not the fight club per se, Owen and Gwen.
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Torchwood are not the good guys. Way too messed up.

But they're the ones that turn up and try.

All things considered I'm not sure that's quite a good thing though.

You know what's not helpful? Having developed a tendency to giggle whenever Ianto says 'Lisa'. *facepalm*


Lots of spoilers: ( Read more... )

So I was all blah blah, yada yada, blah blah, thought I would be bored...
and then I pretty much quoted all the last bit.

So I'd say the ending worked. Really quite a lot.



... unfortunately, now there is no more. This was why I was saving them up and rationing them. All done now.

*hugs Ianto*

So for themes from these three audios we have: ( Read more... )

Some of the same weaknesses as Small Worlds - unsurprisingly - but still a fun little episode. Heavy on the plot, but with some *fun* backstory. And GDL put a lot into it. I liked it. But. ( Read more... )
So... I love that we got interesting backstory for Jack and Ianto. I think the bad guys were sufficiently creepy, in fact that really worked for me. But I'm not sold on the plot solution, or the genre fit.

hey... we're on episode 10. How did we get to 10? No fair, there's hardly any left this season!

Is about TW 2-06 Reset, so goes under the cut. ( Read more... )

I think I like it all, but watching it play out at one episode per week? Ouch!

Torchwood
Fic: Need
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto
Rating: sweet and innocent... sorta
Spoilers: refers to the end of Doctor Who season 3
Word Count: 1181
Summary: Sometimes you can't just ignore the dark.
Author's Notes: Little angsty snuggly thing that sprang from someone else's image - Jack, after the Valiant, was always rubbing his wrists.
Beta by pinkdormouse


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Today's dreams involved a lot of running around and getting rained on and learning to be zen about it. There were actual buddhist monks. It was fun.


More fun: The part where Jack (Harkness, Captain, the very pretty) was a kind of priest and his main job was to have sex a lot. In a ceremonial sort of way. Like a coming of age ceremony thing, only less with the puns and more with the transitions between states. Not just first times. Though definitely including that. More any times that you decide to go embrace the masculine principle in that way again. Like if you're breaking up with someone or something.

He also saved the world a lot. There was time for both.

This suggests he was a very well kept secret.



Ceremony and sex. My subconscious has a theme.

Did someone said there was more Jack kissing on the DVDs?
If so, wheres?

Plot I'd really prefer to see, maybe with Jack, maybe just in general:
Hero has to live to save the world / large numbers of lives in it / small numbers / one life.

Because 'heroic sacrifice' and 'prettied up suicide' get a tad bit too close to each other sometimes.

And also, isn't life generally more with the live-to-help? I mean, thus far, I've never encountered a situation where dying would be more helpful.

And it's like when you've got a baby you've got to stay alive so the baby does. That's a nice real situation.

So where's the story about that?




... Therefore, Jack should get pregnant, and stop pissing around playing martyr.

Things about Torchwood I have decided:

Jack does not come back because he missed Ianto.
Duty, people! The keyword is duty! Like 1-12; he has reasons.
... does no one else find that duty-desire tension/entwining to be sexy?


... because it might be for and about duty, but Ianto is a hell of a nice bonus, to share that duty with. Because he would totally get it.