Torchwood stuff
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osprey_archerJust watched 2.11: Adrift. I’m annoyed that they arranged the episode in order to prove Jack right. Because really, if one of your loved ones disappeared into the Rift and came out screaming endlessly, wouldn’t you rather know about it than spend the next fifty years of your life scouring crowd videos in case you saw his face? I would. I think there’s a very good argument that Jack’s secret asylum is very, very wrong, which the writers totally threw out the window.
Also, I may be the only person on the planet here, but Ianto and Jack's relationship really does not strike me as quite so healthy. Interesting, yes. Fluffable? Not so much.
Still. I’m two episodes from the end. The problem with watching television shows after the fact is that you end up being spoiled for everything. I’m kind of trapped between wanting to stop watching Torchwood at the point where everyone is still more or less alive, and knowing that I have to see it through to the bitter end.
This is part of the reason why there is not so much new Torchwood fic lately. I’m working on something! Really! Which is almost finished. Tea and Sympathy, part 4, not so much.
But this below has been sitting on my hard drive for a while, so I thought I would share.
Torchwood: the Snarkfest Episode Guide, part 1.
Episode 1
Jack offers Gwen a job.
Gwen: But you have no idea if I’m qualified.
Jack: It’s a top secret job where you save the world daily. What possible qualifications could you need?
Gwen: ….
Jack: I don’t hire people for competence. I hire people that I think are hot.
Gwen: In that case, how can I refuse?
Episode 2
Gwen unleashes the Evil Alien Sex Apparition of Doom.
Jack: Thank God, she’s incompetent enough to fit in. I was worried for a minute I might have hired a competent one by mistake.
Tosh: I’m competent.
Jack: You’ll get over it.
Ianto: I’m competent!
Everyone ignores him, because he needs a reason to go berserk eventually. Jack saves Cardiff by being a sex god.
Episode 3
Owen: I am the masked avenger! Rah!
Also, Jack gives Gwen weapons training.
Ianto: Is that what they’re calling it these days?
Jack: Nothing is sexy like a euphemism.
Episode 4
Ianto unleashes his Evil Cyber Girlfriend on the world. Accidentally? Well, sort of.
Ianto: You all ignore me! All the time! You never remember my birthday! Or our anniversary! Or—
Jack: Ianto, you make us coffee and do janitorial stuff. We’re not required to forge a deep emotional connection with you for that.
Everyone except Ianto shoots the cyborg and the world is saved.
Episode 5
Tiny small children, fairies, and CGI are all evil.
Episode 6
Team Torchwood nearly gets eaten by cannibals. Jack saves them. Why is it that even in a British TV show the American is the only competent special agent?
Once they’ve returned to the Hub:
Jack: Right then, everyone, weapons training!
Everyone: All of us? Together?
Jack: It will be fun! Team bonding!
Gwen and Owen, at least, decide that weapons training is a good idea.
Also, I may be the only person on the planet here, but Ianto and Jack's relationship really does not strike me as quite so healthy. Interesting, yes. Fluffable? Not so much.
Still. I’m two episodes from the end. The problem with watching television shows after the fact is that you end up being spoiled for everything. I’m kind of trapped between wanting to stop watching Torchwood at the point where everyone is still more or less alive, and knowing that I have to see it through to the bitter end.
This is part of the reason why there is not so much new Torchwood fic lately. I’m working on something! Really! Which is almost finished. Tea and Sympathy, part 4, not so much.
But this below has been sitting on my hard drive for a while, so I thought I would share.
Torchwood: the Snarkfest Episode Guide, part 1.
Episode 1
Jack offers Gwen a job.
Gwen: But you have no idea if I’m qualified.
Jack: It’s a top secret job where you save the world daily. What possible qualifications could you need?
Gwen: ….
Jack: I don’t hire people for competence. I hire people that I think are hot.
Gwen: In that case, how can I refuse?
Episode 2
Gwen unleashes the Evil Alien Sex Apparition of Doom.
Jack: Thank God, she’s incompetent enough to fit in. I was worried for a minute I might have hired a competent one by mistake.
Tosh: I’m competent.
Jack: You’ll get over it.
Ianto: I’m competent!
Everyone ignores him, because he needs a reason to go berserk eventually. Jack saves Cardiff by being a sex god.
Episode 3
Owen: I am the masked avenger! Rah!
Also, Jack gives Gwen weapons training.
Ianto: Is that what they’re calling it these days?
Jack: Nothing is sexy like a euphemism.
Episode 4
Ianto unleashes his Evil Cyber Girlfriend on the world. Accidentally? Well, sort of.
Ianto: You all ignore me! All the time! You never remember my birthday! Or our anniversary! Or—
Jack: Ianto, you make us coffee and do janitorial stuff. We’re not required to forge a deep emotional connection with you for that.
Everyone except Ianto shoots the cyborg and the world is saved.
Episode 5
Tiny small children, fairies, and CGI are all evil.
Episode 6
Team Torchwood nearly gets eaten by cannibals. Jack saves them. Why is it that even in a British TV show the American is the only competent special agent?
Once they’ve returned to the Hub:
Jack: Right then, everyone, weapons training!
Everyone: All of us? Together?
Jack: It will be fun! Team bonding!
Gwen and Owen, at least, decide that weapons training is a good idea.
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Date: 2008-05-29 04:17 am (UTC)I would have cut the whole Owen dying thing, but that's because I like Owen and not because I have a real quality reason.
As for the fic, one of them is almost done and one needs a read-through because I wrote it in one night, and I also don't know where to post it because it's Ianto/evil!Jack. Sort of.
Is there anything you're particularly interested in seeing? I take requests if they aren't too long or too smutty.
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Date: 2008-05-30 07:01 am (UTC)I would have cut From Out of the Rain altogether (well, rewritten it and moved it to the third season), moved A Day in the Death toward the end of the season, and expanded Fragments into a two-parter.
As far as preferences, I'm giddy that you write good Owen/Ianto. I don't think they're realistic as far as a traditional OTP, but I do think their dynamic is really interesting. I've been rooting for the two of them since the first season. Although if you feel like going that way, it's always nice to see Owen as the competent doctor and potential care-taker.
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:45 pm (UTC)Would you be willing to beta something?
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Date: 2008-05-30 05:09 pm (UTC)This girl that I'd read for before sends me a new fic, asking specifically if it's fit for public consumption. I send her back more critique than she sent me fic, summarizing that it's going to take some work. Not only did she not respond to my hard work or even post the story as it was, she actually removed me from her friendslist. I'm a little proud. So, yeah, fair warning.
Love to read for you though. :)
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Date: 2008-05-30 09:56 pm (UTC)Well, I won't say that's exactly what I want, but it's probably what I need, so I will swallow the bitter, bitter pill of criticism.
At least you warn people up front. I once read a paper for a girl and told her something like, "You basically need to rewrite this entirely. No, scratch that, you need to come up with an actual thesis and some actual supporting evidence and write an entirely new paper."
Amazingly, she still speaks to me. But I have been informed that she thinks I'm terrifying.
Where do you want me to send it?
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Date: 2008-06-01 01:16 am (UTC)jonesk6 at gmail is fine.
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Date: 2008-06-01 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-02 12:05 am (UTC)I won't have a chance to look at it until tomorrow night, but it's been received.
::digs out printer::