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⌈ Secret Post #2188 ⌋

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Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

[(Anonymous)]

I ship Jack/Ianto, so a lot of people are probably going to think I didn't like CoE because of that. I won't lie, the reaction was loud from my corner of fandom largely because of Ianto's death, but I had a lot of other reasons for not enjoying the season.

First and foremost: CoE is very different in tone, content and execution from the first two seasons. I watched the first two seasons for a reason - I enjoyed that particular type of episode structure. They changed things up completely for CoE, and the new format is not one I personally enjoyed. The five-episode arc could have been done well, but instead it just became a vehicle for them to really show off how terrible their plotholes can be.

Plotholes are a Torchwood staple, but they're a little more easily overlooked in the first two seasons because 1. those were episodic, so there were some stronger episodes to weigh out the worse ones and 2. those weren't trying so hard to be "gritty" and "real".

That last bit sums up the majority of my problems with CoE. It tried very hard to present itself in a particular light. Unfortunately, it was bleating about how dark and gritty it is so often that it came off as trying too hard. I couldn't take it seriously. It's not even the fact that it's uniformly depressing all the way through, as other commenters have said. It's that it does "uniformly depressing" really badly. There has to be a point to it, even if the point is that there is no point (or that war/fighting/political-bugbear-of-the-day is pointless, to be precise).

CoE did not do that. I got the distinct impression that a majority of what they did (the explosion in the first episode, Jack's capture and what happened to him, Ianto's death, Steven's death) was done solely to get a reaction out of the audience. That's not good story-telling. That's just sensationalism. And that's why I didn't like CoE.

Of course, YMMV. I'm a lit student, so maybe that's why I focus so hard on thematic unity in a story (which CoE doesn't have, to me). If you're approaching it from another angle, it's entirely likely you'll find more to like than dislike. Really, I'd say just give it a shot and decide for yourself. It's only five episodes, so at least it's short. And you're not obliged to watch all five if you decide you don't like it in the end.