coe: day five

[such_heights]

dear intrepid T3 reaction post editor: don't bother linking this one, if you would. oh, and good luck! *salutes*

Oh, god, this is what breaking up with a show feels like.

I don't actually quite know what to say, other than that I am bitterly, bitterly disappointed, even more so than I was yesterday, and that I completely reject this reality and substitute it with my own.

If you'll excuse me, I'll just be over here, going backwards. Pre-this series, pre-Exit Wounds, pre-Reset, back to when everyone was kind of crap and dysfunctional and the writing was patchy and they were a team and everybody was still alive.

Comments

[andreth47]

Amen, sista. Amen.

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Who thought that such unmitigating horror would be good tv? This is not cool and edgy, this is fucking sick. And that's even before I start to get pissed off about Ianto.

[such_heights]

I was crawling out of my skin watching pretty much all of it, and all so it could tell this story? Wow.

[mara-202.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe this. Torchwood was so wonderful and had so much potential. And for a while I thought that CoE might finally realise that potential. But then this... this... travesty.

I just... I'm speechless. And not in a good way.

[such_heights]

It was doing so well, I was so psyched and happy to see so many new people enjoying it be the best it could be. This let down, after that, is just excruciating.

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

(((((((big hugs))))))

[such_heights]

Thanks, M. Ah, fandom! Why do we do this to ourselves, I wonder?

[falcons-honour.livejournal.com]

It was, as has been said, sick. I am speechless myself, and I refuse to believe it. My canon does not include CoE. I could accept Tosh and Owen's death, reluctantly, but not this. Never this. I am out of fandom. If there is a series four, I don't want it.

[such_heights]

The thing is, I would absolutely take the story of Gwen and Rhys rebuilding Torchwood, but in this context after everything that's happened and what they did to the other characters and the story I thought they were telling, I have no desire to invest in the show again.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

I second that

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

Third.

I also feel like they just completed destroyed not only many fans faith in the show, but Jack's committment to the Earth, Gwen's faith in humanity, their sex positive message, Ianto fucking Jones, the Hub, and all the fun. This is not my show anymore. My safe show, where even when they took hit they started from the end, has been completely and utterly betrayed by a story I would have enjoyed watching in almost any other context. Because it was a good story, as far as mainstream storytelling ever gets, but it failed insofar as all the standards I hold Torchwood to.

Also, this is what, the second shithead PM the Whoniverse has gotten in as many years? Thank you, Doctor, for getting rid of Harriet Jones. That was really a big help.

[nohwrah.livejournal.com]

Word. I haven't watched the last episode, but I've followed the reaction post and I'd read the spoilers. And I'm very happy I haven't watched it, in a "if I can't see it, it doesn't exist"-kind of way.

Man, RTD mucked up. I want an explanation for this, but I don't think there's a satisfying one- and last thing I want to hear right now is RTD going, 'neener neener, it's my show and I'll do what I want with it'.

[such_heights]

There's no way I would have been able to resist watching this, but I kind of wish I hadn't.

And it's very clear that everyone involved with this story is very proud of it, and I can't say that I care very much about what they have to say. This is the story they wanted to tell all along, and this isn't the show I thought it was.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'll be interested if any of the actors say anything now that the 'secrets' are out. I'm pretty sure that Barrowman isn't exactly thrilled with the place it's left his favorite character. And poor GDL, he's a young guy and this is going to be huge pressure from fans behaving badly (tm) every time he goes out in a fannish place.

[such_heights]

Yeah, already I've been hearing that some fans have been going way over the line, which is unsurprising but awful.

I was avoiding all of the actors' quotes beforehand, but now I find myself morbidly curious, actually.

[last-radio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I quit. This has been the most ridiculous bait and switch act possible. I don't mind things being "gritty" or "uncompromising" or making me morally uncomfortable, but in this case that is not what I signed up for.

[such_heights]

Me neither. This is way too distressing for way too many reasons. :(

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it yet, but I know what happens and... I feel exactly the same way as you do.

I want my show back. :(

[such_heights]

This sucks, this totally sucks. *clings!*

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

*clings back*

[azelma.livejournal.com]

I just said to another person on my friends list that I feel like I've just broken up with a lover.

I enjoyed the times we had but the glory days are gone. It's a case of thanks for the memories, but goodbye, as far as my feelings toward Whoniverse in general are right now.

I've never had such an extreme and just goddamn raw reaction to a work of fiction before. I feel weird, but comforted to know there are other viewers experiencing similar emotions. I'd feel like such a freak if I wasn't able to log onto LJ and see so much outpouring.

[such_heights]

Yeah, a big part of me is going 'it's just a TV show', but then, a TV show and fandom I've put a lot of enthusiasm into over the last couple of years, so.

I have no idea how I'm going to feel about all of this once the dust has settled, but I feel so let down right now.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

wait up! i'm coming with you!
*runs as fast as she can*

[such_heights]

All aboard the denial bus! :D

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

...where's this bus headed?
is jack driving? o_O

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

Step into the light, kel!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

but i don't want to be drugs!

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

Yeah seriously, this was a break up! Seriously, there is no possible way there could be another season. What the hell were they thinking? Let's alienate the whole fandom and destroy this show, bam. wtf

[cherryfeather.livejournal.com]

So, I just watched it, yeah. I will say that it was visceral and real and great writing--reminds you of "Midnight", doesn't it, showing all the dark horrible things people do to save their own skin?

But what the hell. They assassinated Jack's character--really, I so think they did. He sacrificed his own grandson, that's one of those Majorly Unforgivable Things, y'know. And then he ran away, which, if we're going with all that, I dunno, character development he's had over the past two seasons, he wouldn't do.

It just...feels all wrong. -sigh- Iantoooooooooooo. (THE OTHER GUY HAD A FUCKING HAZMAT SUIT AND HE SURVIVED. WHY DID THAT NOT HAPPEN WITH THE PERSON WE ACTUALLY CARED ABOUT.) I Tweeted my feelings. (http://twitter.com/lizjwright/status/2595305145) (and then ate them. -needs a Rice Krispie treat-)

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

I was so optimistic about the whole thing at episode two. I was liking the sci-fi, I was accepting the stupidness that was RTD's presentation of the Government. I think that this is the last time I can be slapped in the face by a show like that. There was so much promise in Tosh's backstory, in Ianto's. We get just in time for it to go nowhere. They waste so much in this show, and in Doctor Who, too.

You know how I was going to kill off Ianto and Gwen instead of Tosh and Owen? Not anymore. I'm going to have an everyone lives AU verse. With Andy, too. And maybe I'll steal Johnson, too. And Alice and Stephen. Everyone lives! (The Moff does bloody scary, and occasionally achingly sad (Sally and Billy in the hospital always makes me cry), but everyone lives.)

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

♥ you. & amen. GOODBYE TORCHWOOD.

[such_heights]

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