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martinlivings) wrote2006-10-25 09:54 am
martinlivings) wrote2006-10-25 09:54 am
Torchwood: How I'd Fix It
I had a little think about this this morning, giving it way more time and energy than it deserves, and to turn Torchwood into a good show would only take one tiny adjustment, and then the whole thing would make perfect sense.
Put simply, the Torchwood in London was the main professional outfit, where the bulk of their resources were, both technologically and intellectually. The post in Cardiff, on the other hand, was where they sent their outcasts, those inept employees who wouldn't cut it at the main office, and who are put in charge of the most minor issues possible. Which is all fine, until the main Torchwood branch is destroyed by the Cybermen/Daleks, and these losers, with no resources, skills or plans, suddenly and unwillingly find themselves in charge of the whole shebang.
Now that's a series I'd watch!
It could have been summed up so easily. Instead of the police deferring angrily to Torchwood, they should have been sniggering behind their backs. Torchwood: Cardiff should have openly been the joke it so clearly is, and they should have known it, known they were a Mickey Mouse operation and desperately out of their depth in the tiny puddles they were facing, and terrified of what might happen if something of the scale of the Cyberman invasion happened again. It would have added a pathos to their uselessness, made their banter kind of a defense mechanism, and made sense of absolutely everything that happened.
I need to be a writer for these shows. Seriously. :)
Put simply, the Torchwood in London was the main professional outfit, where the bulk of their resources were, both technologically and intellectually. The post in Cardiff, on the other hand, was where they sent their outcasts, those inept employees who wouldn't cut it at the main office, and who are put in charge of the most minor issues possible. Which is all fine, until the main Torchwood branch is destroyed by the Cybermen/Daleks, and these losers, with no resources, skills or plans, suddenly and unwillingly find themselves in charge of the whole shebang.
Now that's a series I'd watch!
It could have been summed up so easily. Instead of the police deferring angrily to Torchwood, they should have been sniggering behind their backs. Torchwood: Cardiff should have openly been the joke it so clearly is, and they should have known it, known they were a Mickey Mouse operation and desperately out of their depth in the tiny puddles they were facing, and terrified of what might happen if something of the scale of the Cyberman invasion happened again. It would have added a pathos to their uselessness, made their banter kind of a defense mechanism, and made sense of absolutely everything that happened.
I need to be a writer for these shows. Seriously. :)
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But yeah, you should be a writer for them. :)
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After all, imagining that a few elements of the characterisation are different seems to be enough for slash fans to enjoy all manner of crap tv shows....
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