This post has spoilers about season 3 of Torchwood, but I don't think anyone on my f-list actually watches that show, so it shouldn't matter...If you do watch it, and haven't seen season 3 yet, and you can't work out what my avatar means, maybe you should read this to prepare yourself for some heartache...
I finally changed my default avatar.
It only took the death of like, my favorite character on one of my favorite TV shows (Torchwood) to get me to do it.
I don't know how long I'll have it...I guess until I get over the shock / anger / sadness / frustration / whatever of the event that caused me to make it.
Just last season, season 2, two of the main characters were killed off in a very tragic and depressing way.
And by the end of season 3, another main character has fallen in a very tragic and depressing way.
What happened, Season 3?? You started off so epically awesome, and dark, and thrilling, and tense, and amazing. I was left hanging on the edge of my seat the first 3 nights, but by the end of the 4th episode I was crestfallen. I couldn't believe what had happened...I watched episode 5 constantly hoping and thinking maybe, maybe, there would be some way to bring Ianto back to life. I kept hoping and waiting for it...I had never wanted a trade-mark "Russell T Davies magic reset ending" (à la Doctor Who's Last of the Time Lords finale) more in my life!! But towards the end of episode 5 I realized it wasn't going to happen. The aliens were gone, and they would have been the main reason for a "magic reset" ending. The Hub was destroyed, and the "Risen Mitten" along with it, so no chance of an Owen-style resurrection.
My heart sank.
It was just...too soon. I mean, there are still people who haven't gotten over the death of Toshiko and Owen, then the writers go and kill off Ianto too??? Maybe...Maybe if it had happened at the end of season 4 it might have been...I don't know...Easier to handle? Maybe if we'd had one more full season (sorry, but I don't count 5 episodes for season 3 as a "full" season when we're used to getting 13 episodes) without any main character deaths, then maybe, maybe. But...
If they do a 4th season I don't know how interested I'm gonna be in watching it. I've read that Russell T Davies (creator/head writer of Torchwood) had said that if season 3 did well, they had a season 4 ready to go...And season 3 apparently did very well in the ratings in the UK. But, the way season 3 ended, I don't know how they would start up season 4. The ending for season 3 just felt so..."final", like it was a permanent end to Torchwood...Or at least the Torchwood that fans have come to know and love. The only surviving members of the Torchwood team are Gwen and Jack, but Gwen's pregnant and Jack's off roaming the universe trying to make himself forget about all the deaths he blames himself for (Toshiko, Owen, Ianto, his grandson, etc.). Before Jack left he even said he had no reason left to stay on Earth, nothing to come back to. It all just felt so "this is the end forever" that doing a 4th season would make it seem like...Like the way they ended season 3 was a total waste. Why bother to create plot lines that lead to "wrapping things up" for an exit of the show if you're going to just continue it?? If season 3 was the absolute end of Torchwood, and they were never going to make another season of it, then...Well, they would have certainly gone out with a bang. But basically planing on making a 4th season before season 3 even aired somehow makes the ending events of season 3 seem like...I don't know...like it was just done for sensationalism or shock value.
.........Where's a new Doctor Who special when you need it?! I could use some lighthearted heroics where the hero saves the day without his close friends/relatives dying :(
I finally changed my default avatar.
It only took the death of like, my favorite character on one of my favorite TV shows (Torchwood) to get me to do it.
I don't know how long I'll have it...I guess until I get over the shock / anger / sadness / frustration / whatever of the event that caused me to make it.
Just last season, season 2, two of the main characters were killed off in a very tragic and depressing way.
And by the end of season 3, another main character has fallen in a very tragic and depressing way.
What happened, Season 3?? You started off so epically awesome, and dark, and thrilling, and tense, and amazing. I was left hanging on the edge of my seat the first 3 nights, but by the end of the 4th episode I was crestfallen. I couldn't believe what had happened...I watched episode 5 constantly hoping and thinking maybe, maybe, there would be some way to bring Ianto back to life. I kept hoping and waiting for it...I had never wanted a trade-mark "Russell T Davies magic reset ending" (à la Doctor Who's Last of the Time Lords finale) more in my life!! But towards the end of episode 5 I realized it wasn't going to happen. The aliens were gone, and they would have been the main reason for a "magic reset" ending. The Hub was destroyed, and the "Risen Mitten" along with it, so no chance of an Owen-style resurrection.
My heart sank.
It was just...too soon. I mean, there are still people who haven't gotten over the death of Toshiko and Owen, then the writers go and kill off Ianto too??? Maybe...Maybe if it had happened at the end of season 4 it might have been...I don't know...Easier to handle? Maybe if we'd had one more full season (sorry, but I don't count 5 episodes for season 3 as a "full" season when we're used to getting 13 episodes) without any main character deaths, then maybe, maybe. But...
If they do a 4th season I don't know how interested I'm gonna be in watching it. I've read that Russell T Davies (creator/head writer of Torchwood) had said that if season 3 did well, they had a season 4 ready to go...And season 3 apparently did very well in the ratings in the UK. But, the way season 3 ended, I don't know how they would start up season 4. The ending for season 3 just felt so..."final", like it was a permanent end to Torchwood...Or at least the Torchwood that fans have come to know and love. The only surviving members of the Torchwood team are Gwen and Jack, but Gwen's pregnant and Jack's off roaming the universe trying to make himself forget about all the deaths he blames himself for (Toshiko, Owen, Ianto, his grandson, etc.). Before Jack left he even said he had no reason left to stay on Earth, nothing to come back to. It all just felt so "this is the end forever" that doing a 4th season would make it seem like...Like the way they ended season 3 was a total waste. Why bother to create plot lines that lead to "wrapping things up" for an exit of the show if you're going to just continue it?? If season 3 was the absolute end of Torchwood, and they were never going to make another season of it, then...Well, they would have certainly gone out with a bang. But basically planing on making a 4th season before season 3 even aired somehow makes the ending events of season 3 seem like...I don't know...like it was just done for sensationalism or shock value.
.........Where's a new Doctor Who special when you need it?! I could use some lighthearted heroics where the hero saves the day without his close friends/relatives dying :(
mood:
sad
music: The Last Day on Earth by Kate Miller-Heidke
2 lying on the floor | hear my whispers
