Children of Earth - Day Four

[fictional]

It was a beautiful, frightening, grim episode.

And a beautiful, frightening, grim death, unnecessary and inevitable.

Maybe all deaths are.

Comments

[invaderwitch.livejournal.com]

I was spoiled, and still have never sobbed so audibly at any episode of anything ever.

Liquor now.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I am maintaining my denial until tomorrow, but you are entirely right.

*sigh*

Damn it. Why am I starting to believe that this happened?!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Me neither. I never cry at tv. Liquor? Is that helping? I've just been sitting here in a crushed, damp daze.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

God, I've been crying on and off since it happened. I'd heard the usual rumors, but I wasn't ready to believe it... Heartbreaking.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i am there with you, floating along DeNial

[psykaos42.livejournal.com]

I maintain that he's not permanently dead. The BBC aren't morons; they're not going to kill off a character who's second in popularity only to JB. To do so would piss off the fandom to the extent there would be no Season 4.

They may use his death as a cliffhanger to lead into Season 4, but he's not permanently dead.

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

It helped me. :P

Well, it helped except immediately after when I was tipsy enough to lay down on my bed and start randomly crying. But now I feel better. Well, I don't actually feel anything. Which is better. I think?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I'm, uh, medicating with more, uh, green and combustible items. I'm pretty close to comfortably numb. Perhaps at some point soon, I might... eat a brownie. I'm off sugar, but it may just be that kind of day.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Not just a river in Egypt anymore.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I know. On one hand I'm all - it was beautiful. On the other hand, I am just engulfed in woe. It's horrible.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

it is a river in my living room now
a river of tears and whisky
mostly whisky

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd say that, but I think RTD doesn't care so much about the fandom, as he does the audience. And for them it was romantic and agony and tragic, but not boycott worthy, y'know?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, yes, I do think S4 has the possibility of bringing him back. Maybe.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I wish I had whiskey.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

i wish i had some apple pucker to go with my whisky

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

Bottle of Reisling, shot of absinthe, half a pack of cigarettes and a bar of chocolate. I don't have anything green and combustible. Well, except the absinthe. Wish I did, though.

It was preferably dark.

*cries again*

I want a brownie. I found a gluten-free recipe. May need to make some. Am also off sugar, but, you know, fuck it.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Fuck it indeed. I had two.

Seriously, this pain is, like, going to stop soon, right? I just...

also, I don't want to lose everyone. people are all like, "i'm leaving the fandom" and it makes me even sadder."

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

Don't know that I will leave the fandom. I will go on a fixit fic binge pretty soon, I expect. As will others. I think right now people are purely reactive and lashing out.

The real fallout will be waiting for if/when a new series will be made, what shape it will take, and if anyone will care in the 18 months it takes them to get it together. Some people will move on to other things, I think.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you're probably right. Too early to see how it's gonna pan out.

[artistwife.livejournal.com]

It seems to me the show is gone. There is no one left except Jack, a sadly impotent and some what emasculated Jack. Lets face it he has done nothing but die this season. Gwen and Ianto are the heros. Even after they rescued him they were still doing the leading. He mostly complained about the clothes. There is no hub, no Owen, no Tosh, no Ianto , no Gwen, no Mfanway, no Janet. Everything Torchwood was, is gone. The only way they could possibly resurrect it, that I can see, is for the Doctor to take Jack back and plunk him back in time when it all was there.
On a lighter note. They all live in fan fiction. People like you can keep them all alive and safe.