Torchwood wish-list
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rmSince everyone else is playing:
1. Some way of addressing the dead. What I want here is probably much, much smaller than what other people want. That thing where Gwen touched the picture of Tosh and Owen in CoE? More than enough. Just an offhand non-specific remark from Jack about how hard it is to be back in Cardiff/on Earth, or even something more sneaky than that (like the awesome thing where the Doctor goes "You're only 26" at that dude in "Waters of Mars" and it felt like talking about CoE without talking about CoE) is plenty for me. I don't want big; I want elegant.
2. Time differentials. I want it to be longer for Jack since CoE than for Gwen. And I want it to be a source of tension. And I want this to mean that Jack gets to make one hell of an entrance.
3. Alonso. I think Alonso is a good, awkward thing for Jack and serves as a way to address lots of Jack's awkward fucked up shit. Fandom's too, especially when it comes to cliches about masculinity, size, youth and authority.
4. Platonic love. One of the best things, and I think one of the things most missed in the transition from S1/2 to CoE, was just how much everyone on the team fucking loved each other, even on days without sex pollen. I want that back SO BAD.
5. A Jack who is doing the work. I'm not talking a relationship heart to hearts here. I'm talking about someone who's less invested in his fucking emo flaws and more invested in getting the job done. Time for Jack to grow up, just a little; the audience needs him to be proud of himself again.
6. A PC Andy who's more than a punchline. Certainly, he evolved AWESOMELY in CoE. Let's not lose that.
7. No stunt casting. I don't want to see faces I recognize in the outside of the UK casting. I want people to keep having interesting looks and energy. Which is to say, I love Nathan Fillion, but could do without.
8. If John Hart comes back, that relationship needs a resolution.
9. John Fay on the writing team. He's a good guy and a good writer who's still full of wonder for the genre and its community, and the fresh perspective is great for the tone of the show.
10. More with the smart fucking use of music. Less with the spoiling us by early releases of track titles on Amazon.
11. Euros Lyn directing. I still don't know how he got those fucking performances out of folks in CoE. Torchwood has always needed a very forceful and precise director, and CoE only worked as much as it did because of where Lyn was able to pull subtlety out of actors who don't tend to lean that way. I think the show absolutely, positively, continues to need his hand on it.
12. Finally, Torchwood needs to stay big. I neither need, nor particularly want, to be more gutted after S4 than I was after S3, but I do want to be as moved and leave the experience thinking that I was a part of something truly astounding. As much as there's been a lot of interpersonal heartbreak post-CoE amongst both fandom and fandom's broad relationship with the TW creators, I'm still thrilled at the moment of time we all got to be in together, and wouldn't trade that experience for the world. Let's do it again.
1. Some way of addressing the dead. What I want here is probably much, much smaller than what other people want. That thing where Gwen touched the picture of Tosh and Owen in CoE? More than enough. Just an offhand non-specific remark from Jack about how hard it is to be back in Cardiff/on Earth, or even something more sneaky than that (like the awesome thing where the Doctor goes "You're only 26" at that dude in "Waters of Mars" and it felt like talking about CoE without talking about CoE) is plenty for me. I don't want big; I want elegant.
2. Time differentials. I want it to be longer for Jack since CoE than for Gwen. And I want it to be a source of tension. And I want this to mean that Jack gets to make one hell of an entrance.
3. Alonso. I think Alonso is a good, awkward thing for Jack and serves as a way to address lots of Jack's awkward fucked up shit. Fandom's too, especially when it comes to cliches about masculinity, size, youth and authority.
4. Platonic love. One of the best things, and I think one of the things most missed in the transition from S1/2 to CoE, was just how much everyone on the team fucking loved each other, even on days without sex pollen. I want that back SO BAD.
5. A Jack who is doing the work. I'm not talking a relationship heart to hearts here. I'm talking about someone who's less invested in his fucking emo flaws and more invested in getting the job done. Time for Jack to grow up, just a little; the audience needs him to be proud of himself again.
6. A PC Andy who's more than a punchline. Certainly, he evolved AWESOMELY in CoE. Let's not lose that.
7. No stunt casting. I don't want to see faces I recognize in the outside of the UK casting. I want people to keep having interesting looks and energy. Which is to say, I love Nathan Fillion, but could do without.
8. If John Hart comes back, that relationship needs a resolution.
9. John Fay on the writing team. He's a good guy and a good writer who's still full of wonder for the genre and its community, and the fresh perspective is great for the tone of the show.
10. More with the smart fucking use of music. Less with the spoiling us by early releases of track titles on Amazon.
11. Euros Lyn directing. I still don't know how he got those fucking performances out of folks in CoE. Torchwood has always needed a very forceful and precise director, and CoE only worked as much as it did because of where Lyn was able to pull subtlety out of actors who don't tend to lean that way. I think the show absolutely, positively, continues to need his hand on it.
12. Finally, Torchwood needs to stay big. I neither need, nor particularly want, to be more gutted after S4 than I was after S3, but I do want to be as moved and leave the experience thinking that I was a part of something truly astounding. As much as there's been a lot of interpersonal heartbreak post-CoE amongst both fandom and fandom's broad relationship with the TW creators, I'm still thrilled at the moment of time we all got to be in together, and wouldn't trade that experience for the world. Let's do it again.
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Date: 2010-06-08 05:38 pm (UTC)I also would like several years to have passed (and they will have in real time). Doesn't matter to me if the time lines between Jack and Gwen differ - though that would be an interesting touch (hey, I just had Jack come back to Earth after a thousand years his time vs 7 weeks everyone else's time and yeah, its fun). Then Alonso or another love interest would be fine.
More Captain John - yes! He's a great character and the sexual tension between him and Jack was delicious.
I hope they will keep the omnisexual nature of the show. Jack with women is fine, but I hope (especially since going to be a cable production) that we see Jack with men and aliens as well! How they will include Gwen in this (beyond the aliens made me do it) is problematic - which is why I worry that Rhys has already been or will soom be killed off.
And for the love of all that's sacred, please, please leave Gwen's baby at home. I'm not interested in the domestic lives of the characters except in reference to how this impacts their role at Torchwood. The first time I see Gwen come to work with the baby and a diaper bag (and its not in a comic bit)- I'm done.