That's reassuring, at least, in that the fuller interview reveals the context of the earlier "highlights" to be pretty much what I assumed it to be.
And it was all so reasonable and diplomatic... until the "Editor's note"! =:o?
What irritates me about the doomed and pointless "brink back Ianto" compaign is that it distracts from more rational critiques of CoE *as a story*, and the earlier abridged version of the interview compounded the impression that RTD (a) was only aware of that one particular point of criticism, and (b) was casually utterly dismissive of it. The full interview deals with point b: We get to see his actual writerly reasons for that specific decision and his awareness of some of the reasons people are upset by it beyond "OH NOES MY FAVEWIT CHARACTAH!". I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the dust to settle on this before we can hear TD & co. respond to the other criticisms of the story? With the DVD set already rushed out (did they manage to finally pin down the choice of music tracks on Ep 5 before it headed to the duplicators?), it'll be a few years before the "special edition" with all the post-broadcast interviews and critical analysis...
In the meantime, here's "The War Games" on DVD: 4 hours of Terrance Dicks, Derrick Sherwin et al. hooting "Good God, how did we get away with this claptrap?!? Blame the writer!" "No, blame the producer!". And yet never a doubt in anyone's mind that they'd made a good, fun, TV show; One where a small team of itinerant world-savers overcome the obstacles set by an in-fighting, self-serving "government", winning over and teaming up with former puppets of said "government", to finally face a tense stand-off in a bare room with an implacable God-like foe, leading to personal tragedy and loss...
I wonder if they ever thought of calling it "Torchwood: Soldiers of Earth"? =:o}
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And it was all so reasonable and diplomatic... until the "Editor's note"! =:o?
What irritates me about the doomed and pointless "brink back Ianto" compaign is that it distracts from more rational critiques of CoE *as a story*, and the earlier abridged version of the interview compounded the impression that RTD (a) was only aware of that one particular point of criticism, and (b) was casually utterly dismissive of it. The full interview deals with point b: We get to see his actual writerly reasons for that specific decision and his awareness of some of the reasons people are upset by it beyond "OH NOES MY FAVEWIT CHARACTAH!". I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the dust to settle on this before we can hear TD & co. respond to the other criticisms of the story? With the DVD set already rushed out (did they manage to finally pin down the choice of music tracks on Ep 5 before it headed to the duplicators?), it'll be a few years before the "special edition" with all the post-broadcast interviews and critical analysis...
In the meantime, here's "The War Games" on DVD: 4 hours of Terrance Dicks, Derrick Sherwin et al. hooting "Good God, how did we get away with this claptrap?!? Blame the writer!" "No, blame the producer!". And yet never a doubt in anyone's mind that they'd made a good, fun, TV show; One where a small team of itinerant world-savers overcome the obstacles set by an in-fighting, self-serving "government", winning over and teaming up with former puppets of said "government", to finally face a tense stand-off in a bare room with an implacable God-like foe, leading to personal tragedy and loss...
I wonder if they ever thought of calling it "Torchwood: Soldiers of Earth"? =:o}