Torchwood fan wibbling

[rm]

Just listened to the Torchwood audiobook In the Shadows and man, was that ridiculous and satisfying.

But then! Someone had to go and link me to this: http://tinyurl.com/l8u2nu which arguably contains implied spoilers for Children of Earth that are really fucking distressing even if I've been saying for months that Ianto is not going to die and the rumour mongering is just the usual fan wank and drama.

Really, it's so ridiculous. Hello, I went through the Snape thing. I was ready for that. I'm only bummed his death wasn't more epic (snake bubble to the head? really?). But Ianto! Not my favorite character, but the one it would definitely break my heart to see go. I'd analyze that for you all, but it's so hardly necessary I'd like to pretend to keep my dignity on the subject, but NOW I'M REALLY FUCKING FREAKED. And can't, apparently, stop listening to really depressing stuff on last.fm.

Trauma!

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

The only thing I'm okay with about Snape's death is if she was trying to make the point that death is just crass and stupid and sloppy and NOT ROMANTIC, but I don't actually think that's what she was trying to do.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

See, here's the thing with that. That trick is great, but you have to make the characters *see* that, and thus, the reader. She was so careful to explain death to small children with Dumbledore, but then doesn't do a damn thing about it in book 7. People die, and *nobody living suffers* for more than a few minutes. Hardly anyone even *reacts*. Cliche as a giant "Nooooo!" is, it would have been better, because it implies that somebody cares that someone's just died.

Had Harry had any emotional reaction to Snape's death whatsoever, instead of watching the flashback and then becoming obsessed with his *own* acceptance of death, it could have worked - in fact, the same scenes with Harry *using* Snape's death as a stepping stone to help him face his own? Would have been awesome. But no; it was almost mechanical.