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... it gets harder to think they were being clever.

Torchwood interview here

includes this bit about season 1:
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I don't care if the writers didn't mean it that way, they're wrong. Worryingly wrong.

Great Expectations quoteage I wanted to type up this afternoon but my computer needed restarting:

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

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This is fun.

Great Expectations might not be the first place you'd look for Torchwood connections, but I think everything humans make can connect somehow, especially with a human looking and reading and making their own meanings from the combination.


The thing about GE and the other set texts is that they're about the search for identity within the constraints of society.

A lot of books are if you look at them at that angle.

Apply that to Torchwood and I'm sure there's layers and layers of interesting.

Thinking about the first two episodes in light of Jack's Issues ( Read more... )

for a bunch of disconnected thoughts, that ended up kind of long.

Some shows you can look at various characters and their stories as illuminating a central character. Some shows they kind of... pass the baton and have different who it is abouts. The only one we want to know about so far is Jack, who is set up as The Mystery for a lot of the other characters. Gwen has a very ordinary up front life so far, and is the one who wants to do the finding out. So I wonder, is it really telling us all about Jack?


But it isn't called Harkness, it is called Torchwood.
Among other things, this makes it much easier should any and/or all characters leave. Can keep the team and replace all the parts of it.
Without the slightly embarrassing 'which one's Blake' questions.


/ramble