Torchwood - COE Links
Jul. 26th, 2009 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI found two excellent meta/reviews on the Torchwood series on my correspondence list:
1. Torchwood is a Horror Story and what that means - to wit, I wholeheartedly agree. This is my problem with fandom in Buffy, Angel, Doctor Who and Torchwood - these are horror shows people. Horror does not equal happy endings, cuddles, and riding off into the sunset. That is "romance". Horror equals character deaths, angst, nightmares, and people doing nasty things. Horror is supposed to scare you. Romance is supposed to make you feel all warm and cuddly inside. Granted you can merge the two, and romances often occur inside horror shows. I mean honestly how did you think these babies were going to end? Angel Shanshuing and riding off into the sunset with Buffy? Hello, that is a ROMANCE a la Twilight, NOT a horror show. Or the group in Torchwood sitting around joking about saving the world yet again? Action-Adventure NOT Horror. If you want action-adventure - watch Star-Gate. If you want gothic romance - watch Twilight movies or maybe True Blood(although I'm guessing Ball is going to go more the horror route not the romance route like Charlian Harris did.)
I more or less agree with most of this post, except the last two paragraphs. The writer clearly has never watched a soap opera - because they are full of nuance and dark gritty storylines. Granted you have to watch 250 some episodes to get that, but still. Be a bit like reading just one chapter of Charles Dickens back in the 1800s and saying, there's no nuance there and it's not that dark. Also, while I adore the endings of Buffy S5(best ending and best character death ever on that series) and of Angel S5 -Not Fade Away may be my favorite series ender.., I did enjoy the comics and do think the writers have a right to keep the stories moving forward. I feel this need to point people to that Neil Gaiman post in which he states - the writer is not your bitch.
2. The Women of Torchwood - a post in which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak points out in detail exactly why this series is so good and groundbreaking in regards to how women are depicted in the sci-fi and horror genres.
Although women do tend to be treated better in the horror genre than the other ones for some bizarre reason.
1. Torchwood is a Horror Story and what that means - to wit, I wholeheartedly agree. This is my problem with fandom in Buffy, Angel, Doctor Who and Torchwood - these are horror shows people. Horror does not equal happy endings, cuddles, and riding off into the sunset. That is "romance". Horror equals character deaths, angst, nightmares, and people doing nasty things. Horror is supposed to scare you. Romance is supposed to make you feel all warm and cuddly inside. Granted you can merge the two, and romances often occur inside horror shows. I mean honestly how did you think these babies were going to end? Angel Shanshuing and riding off into the sunset with Buffy? Hello, that is a ROMANCE a la Twilight, NOT a horror show. Or the group in Torchwood sitting around joking about saving the world yet again? Action-Adventure NOT Horror. If you want action-adventure - watch Star-Gate. If you want gothic romance - watch Twilight movies or maybe True Blood(although I'm guessing Ball is going to go more the horror route not the romance route like Charlian Harris did.)
I more or less agree with most of this post, except the last two paragraphs. The writer clearly has never watched a soap opera - because they are full of nuance and dark gritty storylines. Granted you have to watch 250 some episodes to get that, but still. Be a bit like reading just one chapter of Charles Dickens back in the 1800s and saying, there's no nuance there and it's not that dark. Also, while I adore the endings of Buffy S5(best ending and best character death ever on that series) and of Angel S5 -Not Fade Away may be my favorite series ender.., I did enjoy the comics and do think the writers have a right to keep the stories moving forward. I feel this need to point people to that Neil Gaiman post in which he states - the writer is not your bitch.
2. The Women of Torchwood - a post in which
selenak points out in detail exactly why this series is so good and groundbreaking in regards to how women are depicted in the sci-fi and horror genres.Although women do tend to be treated better in the horror genre than the other ones for some bizarre reason.
