ceefax_the_sane: Children of Earth

ceefax_the_sane (

ceefax_the_sane) wrote,
@ 2009-07-13 15:29:00

Entry tags:

lolthings, tv: torchwood

Children of Earth - the final word

Hey Russell, I've read Misery and I've taken notes

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Candy for sitting on my lap and purring in a supportive fashion throughout day five

Xposted to ihasatardis & ihazastopwatch

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	thefannishwaldo 2009-07-13 02:42 pm UTC (link)
	Did Blakes 7 get there before Blackadder? At least with Blackadder it was funny. :p (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ceefax_the_sane 2009-07-13 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	Yep. B7 - 1981, Blackadder 1989. Although I'd forgotten about Blackadder... What is it with British shows and wholesale slaughter, anyway? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	scifinut 2009-07-13 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	Ummm...maybe they're just inherently twisted and destructive like that? I don't know, I'm not British, but I'm definitely noticing the same thing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	prynne12 2009-07-13 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	Somewhere a deep, masochistic hatred of humanity? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	selenesue 2009-07-13 02:56 pm UTC (link)
	When you look at it, Doctor Who always racked up an impressive body count too. Or would if Daleks didn't just vaporize people. Crap, I am depressed. Is there something happy and positive to watch, a televisory hug? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	almightyspaz 2009-07-13 03:01 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh Oooh I got a fun show, well two, Sanctuary and Warehouse 13. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	thefannishwaldo 2009-07-13 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	Warehouse 13... it's all about the impossible-wish!ferrets! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

selenesue
2009-07-13 03:17 pm UTC (link)

Sanctuary needs some better writing for me to care what happens next. I like Amanda Tapping a lot but the rest leave me cold. When is the season premiere anyway?

Warehouse 13 looks derivative but OK. I can see where they probably came up with it after watching the last scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" late at night and wondering, where is that warehouse, who runs it, there must be a million stories in there? We have only seen the pilot episode, let's see how it pans out.

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	4ensicbones 2009-07-14 01:49 am UTC (link)
	Warehouse 13 is about to become my fuzzy, feel-good show. Is there anything cooler than making impossible wishes and getting a ferret in return? No, there really isn't. However, if it gets all emo and depressing too, I'll have to cut a bitch. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bbluejenn117 2009-07-13 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	'Merlin' Its campy and corny enough, and Tony Head is in it! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	selenesue 2009-07-13 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Um. Read much of the Arthurian cycle, have you? Just about as cheerful an ending as CoE when you come down to it, even in the most positive versions. I expect too much of TV. Period. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	megret22 2009-07-13 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	See, this would be a problem if they hadn't cracked out/ totally ignored the original Arthurian legend in the first place xD Idk, I usually watch How I Met Your Mother or The Big Bang Theory when I'm in need of cheering up. There's no fear of major angst in sitcoms =) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jennybenz 2009-07-13 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	Seconding the Big Bang Theory. I just started watching it, and it has been an amazing pick-me-up. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	xenaclone 2009-07-13 08:51 pm UTC (link)
	'Chuck' Smart, funny, lots of nerd/geek references, spy stuff, beautifully realised retail environment and Adam Baldwin playing the BAMF with his tongue so far in his cheek it's hysterical. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	caledonius72 2009-07-13 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	big bang or chuck. british comedy is shit nowadays. Unless you count the farce that was Children of Earth (miaow!) I roar with laughter at "The Good Life" if it's on repeats. Anything with Penelope Keith playing a posh lady really. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	elionwyr 2009-07-15 04:53 am UTC (link)
	Random comment.. HIMYM usually cheers me up, but sometimes they get a romantic zinger ending in there that hits me hard and gets rid of the silly. wistful sigh (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rathanylakan 2009-07-13 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	Have you watched Leverage? All my friends who are fans of team dynamics have fallen hard for this show. One of the characters is a Who-fan. Also, the actor who was Jane on Coupling is in the show. New season starts Wednesday! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gypsylady 2009-07-14 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Eureka? Reruns of Castle? Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert? Just don't turn on the news, no matter what yo do! If you get the Style Network, look for "The Dish." You'll laugh yourself silly. Too bad she won't be commenting on Torchwood. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	selenesue 2009-07-14 05:38 am UTC (link)
	Thank you Milady Gypsy. I will try out The Dish soon. Colbert's buzz cut is worth a snicker or three, yesno? There's a minor hitch in the other advice, since I work in new biz. The real celebs can stop dying for real any day now, really. Please. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	kb7899 2009-07-14 09:53 am UTC (link)
	I can't watch his show anymore without giggling for the first two minutes of the show. I hide behind my pillows and when I look up I start laughing again. Silly buzz cut. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thefannishwaldo 2009-07-13 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, cool. :) I never got into Blake's 7. But when you mentioned 'wholesale slaughter of a cast' my first thought was, "Yeah, it's like the last scene in a Blackadder season!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dougs 2009-07-13 03:25 pm UTC (link)
	I think Romeo and Juliet counts as a British show, yes? Shakespeare, 1595. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	ceefax_the_sane 2009-07-13 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	And then there's Beowulf, of course... :) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

Wholesale slaughter

longrun2
2009-07-13 08:21 pm UTC (link)

Er, Beowulf doesn't count as British, he was King (earlier hero and war-leader) of the Geats in what is now Sweden, he slew Grendel in Denmark, as far as we know he never visited Britain, and at the end when he and his young kinsman Wiglaf slew the dragon that also killed him, Beowulf died but Wiglaf and most of the rest of Geats survived.
Nevertheless I see your point. Morte d'Arthur is British and leaves only Sir Bedivere definitely alive.
So how about "Hitchhiker's Guide" or a bit more Shakespeare like Timon of Athens instead of Beowulf?
OK Hitchhiker's Guide wiped out Earth and part of the cast instead of the entire cast, but Douglas Adams was saying "I don't want to write any more"; RTD is saying "I don't want anyone else to be allowed to write another episode of Torchwood after the BBC replace me"

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	Re: Wholesale slaughter ceefax_the_sane 2009-07-13 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think you can discount Beowulf just because it wasn't set in Britain. After all, Blackadder was set in France, Blake's 7 on Gauda Prime, Romeo and Juliet in Italy, etc. For my money, so long as the author's British, it counts. And I thought RTD was leaving of his own volition? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

Re: Wholesale slaughter

longrun2
2009-07-13 11:29 pm UTC (link)

"I don't think you can discount Beowulf just because it wasn't set in Britain" Quite true, but it is generally believed that the author of the original wasn't British and the version studied by English Literature students after they have learned Anglo-Saxon is a sanitised translation (or sanitised transcription of a translation) by a monk.
Secondly I was trying to say that Beowulf doesn't indulge in Blake's 7's slsughter of the entire cast, but that may be because it is not British.
I don't know whether or not RTD is leaving of his own volition, but it seems to me that he has adopted a burnt earth strategy that makes a sequel very difficult (not impossible, but very difficult). He WILL be replaced for Doctor Who because the BBC realises that this is a valuable franchise even though it is less valuable than in the Pertwee years.
PS most of Blackadder was set in England, although nearly all the last series was in France, Timon of Athens in Greece and the Hitch-hikers Guide in (I've lost count) number of different planets as well as outer space, so I'm with you on location of setting not being location of author.

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	selenesue 2009-07-13 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Hamlet! No wait, that was a couple of years later. But just as depressing and magically delicious! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	chandramas 2009-07-13 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	I think Hamlet gave the idea too... couldn't UK culture being influenced by Much Ado for nothing? At least there is an happy end there! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sweetsyren 2009-07-14 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Not all of them are like that. Red Dwarf! No wait...they wiped out the whole crew on that one. Umm...Life on Mars! No... Being Human! There you go! I thought of one :) ignores the fact that two out of the three characters are dead to begin with ...What? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	robling_t 2009-07-13 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah but that was canon, erm, history. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sweetsyren 2009-07-13 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	OMG - my Male and I were totally talking about this this morning! Great minds, bb... ;) (Reply to this)

	becky_da_wolf 2009-07-13 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Haha! Made me lol. Which was definitely needed. (Reply to this)

	can_uk 2009-07-13 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	CoE: Warning - Deathfic True dat. Now, for the most part it's very good deathfic (as in, the deaths have actual impact), but yeah; death death death doom ugh all over the place. It was like falling down a metal fire escape: DOOM doom doom doom doom doom doom SPLAT It's going to be interesting to see RTD get himself out of this one. (Reply to this)

	jennetj 2009-07-13 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	Hee! Maybe that's why I haven't been weeping and wailing over CoE; I was a Blake's 7 fan, so I'm used to the wholesale slaughter of my show.... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	julesjones 2009-07-13 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, there's been rather a lot of replaying of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch on the B7 portion of my flist (yes, me too). After all, they didn't kill all of them off, what's everyone complaining about, fans these days, etc... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	littlejedi 2009-07-13 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	So, wait, now who's gone besides Ianto??? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dontask_pcandy 2009-07-13 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	Technically PC Andy might be out of uniform forever too. Da-dun-Durrrrr!! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	robling_t 2009-07-13 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	Well, so far as Keeping Busy goes there is this Rift thing that still needs minding... ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	selenesue 2009-07-14 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Everyone in the MI5 building, including the poor blighter who survived a trip into the alien chamber, even in a red hazmat suit. The Frobisher family. Stephen Carter. Oh and the 456 alien. All the bodies in the Torchwood 3 morgue. Jack's brother Gray, whom he so controversially froze in suspended animation. Myfanwy the Pterodactyl. Any weevils left in the cells. Enough? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	honorh 2009-07-14 11:08 am UTC (link)
	Tosh and Owen kicked off the whole "dying" trend in the S2 finale. Gray is either dead now or just really pissed off (more than usual, that is). Myfanwy, if she was inside, is now pteranodon meat. Janet the Weevil. IT'S WORSE THAN THAT, HE'S DEAD, JIM! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	malamutemom 2009-07-13 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Its the whole Shakespearean tragedy thing, it's so very British. (Reply to this)

	allura 2009-07-13 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	For cheering, try Black Books! (Reply to this)

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