I think it's not so much "how can we make them sad?" but more "how can we mess them around? How can we exploit our roles as writers? How can we play with our audience?" Personally, I think Torchwood writers love playing with their audience.
It happened with Suzie, it happened with the Janto kiss at the end of the first series and it happened here.
So it was more for effect than for story? I totally agree.
And you know, doing that is fine, but not everyone's going to like it and I suppose I fell into the not-liking-it-so-much camp. But I totally appreciate it worked for some people.
It's good sometimes. I mean, it's good to be kept on your toes sometimes, and I think the fact that the whole 'Main Cast' immortality that most shows wasn't around on Torchwood because of Suzie was really effective. And we all knew there was a threat. I haven't watched the last episode yet, but it seems it's been left up in the air. And that's not a good shock at all.
Some things like that work - I for one know that kiss at the end of S1 got to me because I didn't really expect it - but to have so many? And so many that weren't needed? I mean, that's as silly as Sarah becoming a lesbian, lol.
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13/7/09 14:34 (UTC)I think it's not so much "how can we make them sad?" but more "how can we mess them around? How can we exploit our roles as writers? How can we play with our audience?" Personally, I think Torchwood writers love playing with their audience.
It happened with Suzie, it happened with the Janto kiss at the end of the first series and it happened here.
So it was more for effect than for story? I totally agree.
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13/7/09 14:40 (UTC)And you know, doing that is fine, but not everyone's going to like it and I suppose I fell into the not-liking-it-so-much camp. But I totally appreciate it worked for some people.
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13/7/09 14:56 (UTC)It's good sometimes. I mean, it's good to be kept on your toes sometimes, and I think the fact that the whole 'Main Cast' immortality that most shows wasn't around on Torchwood because of Suzie was really effective. And we all knew there was a threat. I haven't watched the last episode yet, but it seems it's been left up in the air. And that's not a good shock at all.
Some things like that work - I for one know that kiss at the end of S1 got to me because I didn't really expect it - but to have so many? And so many that weren't needed? I mean, that's as silly as Sarah becoming a lesbian, lol.