I agree with your every word and I am so glad that someone's written this, because I obviously never could. Right after CoE ended I was completely heartbroken and very confused, because in a way I did like it very much, but there was something very wrong and twisted about it all making me grrr. The more I think about it, the more I find many things about it stupid, the more mistakes and plotholes I find and the more senseless CoE seems.
It wasn't Torchwood! It was TW for maybe two episodes and then it went somewhere else entirely and didn't care to send a postcard. I can understand some of the decisions made, and I can perfectly well see it as the end of TW. But why? I think it needs to have a reason, and I think it was cruentum talking to someone twitter who said that a story that's written only for the author and doesn't speak to an audience isn't a good story after all. That's not exactly the thing here, CoE does speak to its audience - but how? And to which audience?
Just today I saw an interview with RTD someone at torch_wood had and, you know... I think I might've lost a bit of respect for him. It's not that I don't respect him as an author and a creator. I do love the show he's made and I do love the characters he's created and I'm thankful for the ride. But he talks wish such a contempt for public opinion... I understand he wants to defend his pov, and that he obviously thinks what he's done is great and plausible in every sense, but I couldn't help but read his words as pure arrogance and 'I'm brilliant, you don't get to question my work'. We're fans, you know. And we do have the write to question his work. It's not in our position to tell him what to do, but if he knows people are seriously hurt and confused and even angry with what he's done, I don't think it would take him a lot of effort to just... You know, be nice, instead of acting like a fucking diva.
Nothing disgusts me more than the 'too sexy for my shirt' kind of attitude, and that's how he's showed himself so far, IMO. Too far up on his heels to mind his audience. It's like when you have an idol and you get to meet this idol, but it turns out he/she is a total obnoxious ass? It's what I feel like. Not that RTD was my idol anyway, but I was very disappointed with his attitude. He's not so good he can't be questioned and his series wasn't that bril that he can't take the criticism.
What I ask from a writer of meaningful texts, and tragedy, is very simple. I ask that you love your characters and your world. I ask that you be them, though they are not you. I ask that you mourn with me when they die, because you love them, and because it hurts you to do this to them as well, but you will, only because you must. If we use the divine metaphor, where you are the god of this world you've created, I demand that you be the kind of god that cares for the fall of a sparrow as much as for the death of a star.
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I agree with your every word and I am so glad that someone's written this, because I obviously never could. Right after CoE ended I was completely heartbroken and very confused, because in a way I did like it very much, but there was something very wrong and twisted about it all making me grrr. The more I think about it, the more I find many things about it stupid, the more mistakes and plotholes I find and the more senseless CoE seems.
It wasn't Torchwood! It was TW for maybe two episodes and then it went somewhere else entirely and didn't care to send a postcard. I can understand some of the decisions made, and I can perfectly well see it as the end of TW. But why? I think it needs to have a reason, and I think it was
Just today I saw an interview with RTD someone at torch_wood had and, you know... I think I might've lost a bit of respect for him. It's not that I don't respect him as an author and a creator. I do love the show he's made and I do love the characters he's created and I'm thankful for the ride. But he talks wish such a contempt for public opinion... I understand he wants to defend his pov, and that he obviously thinks what he's done is great and plausible in every sense, but I couldn't help but read his words as pure arrogance and 'I'm brilliant, you don't get to question my work'. We're fans, you know. And we do have the write to question his work. It's not in our position to tell him what to do, but if he knows people are seriously hurt and confused and even angry with what he's done, I don't think it would take him a lot of effort to just... You know, be nice, instead of acting like a fucking diva.
Nothing disgusts me more than the 'too sexy for my shirt' kind of attitude, and that's how he's showed himself so far, IMO. Too far up on his heels to mind his audience. It's like when you have an idol and you get to meet this idol, but it turns out he/she is a total obnoxious ass? It's what I feel like. Not that RTD was my idol anyway, but I was very disappointed with his attitude. He's not so good he can't be questioned and his series wasn't that bril that he can't take the criticism.
What I ask from a writer of meaningful texts, and tragedy, is very simple. I ask that you love your characters and your world. I ask that you be them, though they are not you. I ask that you mourn with me when they die, because you love them, and because it hurts you to do this to them as well, but you will, only because you must. If we use the divine metaphor, where you are the god of this world you've created, I demand that you be the kind of god that cares for the fall of a sparrow as much as for the death of a star.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Thank you.