"It doesn't hurt me, you want to feel how it feels? You want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?"

[nausicaa83]

Finally got around to watch Torchwood. It's been sitting on my desk for months, and I never watched it before because I got the ending spoiled multiple times, and then I said "what the hell". So far I'm halfway through the first season, and while the first couple of episodes left a me a bit cold, now it's definitely growing on me. But god, it's depressing. Every other scene I'm staring very intently at the background hoping the Doctor will jump out of nowhere and fix everything and then take everyone for a trip on the Tardis. Seriously. Also, Gwen reminds me a lot of a grown up Rose Tyler, so she's kinda my favourite. And I ship her a lot with Owen, although that makes me feel really guilty, because boring boyfriend and cheating and morals and stuff.

I love it how much Russell T Davies-ish it feels. As in his seasons of Doctor Who, where it's not really about the aliens, it's about the feelings. Oooh, a piece of weird alien technology, I bet it's going to do something that makes us question our morals, and get all very sad, but then we have each other to hold onto in the dark. While Steven Moffat's approach is more of "oooh, a piece of alien technology which disrupts the space-time continuum and does a lot of awesome stuff that you can't really understand, but it's still awesome".

Don't get me wrong, I loved the sixth season of Doctor Who, but man I missed the "feelings". With Davies it all feels... grandeur, and sort of like in ancient greek theater. Great characters, great struggles, Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, and Love. Everything sounds capitalized.

Definitely time to stop the rambling and have dinner!

Comments

[tsuki-yagami.livejournal.com]

Parto dicendo che a me la sesta stagione di DW è piaciuta tanto tanto e che voglio bene ad Eleven,Rory e Amy (e ora arriva la mazzata xD)però diciamo che non è proprio stata la mia stagione preferita,forse perchè l'ho sentita così tanto distaccata dalle precedenti,non so..
Io Torchwood l'ho visto ma purtroppo ho un'opinione totalmente diversa dalla tua ^^" Gwen è quella che amo di meno (e sono buona a dire così)però ammetto che lei e Owen non mi dispiacevano insieme,li trovavo hot (non mi viene un termine in italiano migliore)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Mah, sono ancora all'inizio, quindi poi magari starà antipatica anche a me, non si sa mai. XD

Stiamo a vedere come continua, certo che povero Jack. L'ammontare di angst a cui lo sottopongono in questa serie è incredibile. ;_;

[tsuki-yagami.livejournal.com]

Si xD il povero Jack davvero ne subisce di cotte e di crude..diciamo che è un pò tutta la squadra a non avere vita facile (alieni e non solo).In effetti Gwen all'inizio è più sopportabile,dovrai scrivere un altro post appena andrai più avanti xD

OT:Bellissima la canzone che stavi ascoltando *_*

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Oh mamma, qua mi fai spaventare! (Si immagina Gwen che si unisce al Master e ammazza Jack ripetutamente)

Adoro quella canzone, soprattutto nella versione dei Placebo. Uno di quei casi in cui preferisco la cover. ^^

[tsuki-yagami.livejournal.com]

lol no,per fortuna la cara Gwen almeno quello ce lo risparmia..diciamo che a volte mi ha dato un pò sui nervi la sua smania di primeggiare,ecco :P però credo che dipenda molto dai gusti personali..qualcosa di cattivo cattivo in realtà non lo fa ;)

Verissimo!Anche io adoro di più la cover,credo che la voce di Brian si adatti anche di più al pesto.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Ok, mi sta già un pò sulle scatole per quella cosa di rogare il moroso per farsi perdonare i tradimenti. Gwen, ma che mi combini???

[tsuki-yagami.livejournal.com]

Ecco,sono proprio queste le cose che me l'hanno fatta detestare ^^" specie perchè Rhys,sarà pure un pò noioso,ma proprio non se lo meritava

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

I'm catching up with some posts between writing--have you finished series one? I have a funny, slightly surreal story for you but you need to have seen the end of S1.:)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

I'm about to watch the last episode of season 1. I wanted to watch it yesterday, but that Captain Jack Harkness episode was so depressing I had to play some Rock Band to cheer me up. ;_;

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck, that was amazing. I liked the whole season, but that last episode, it blew my mind. *______________*

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's quite epic!

Right, here's a little story, while the last two episodes are still fresh in your head.

Back in 2008 I was still living in London and, as a diligent Who fan, I decided the time had come to watch Torchwood. I sat down and went through S1 pretty much like you, very quickly.

A few days after I'd finished S1 I was on my way to work, head in the clouds as usual. Off I walked my usual path: a peaceful five-minute green walk along a beautiful narrow canal, ducks and water-lillies, you know the sort of thing. A couple of small bridges, too, barely a few steps over them and you crossed to the other side of the canal.

And my eyes, gliding over the scenery, spotted a figure on top of one of the bridges, feeding the ducks. That wasn't unusual in and of itself. What was unusual, was that the more I was coming closer, the more the person came into focus--until only a few feet away from him I was STRUCK: it was Billis, the evil guy from Torchwood S1 series finale!

Well, needless to say I thought I'd finally lost it. I cast the guy a few furtive looks, and he still didn't stop looking like Billis, and it was VERY disturbing to see Billis feeding the ducks, let me tell you.

However, the incident was forgotten with time, RL takes over, you know how it goes.

Then, a few weeks later, I was again on my way to work, went down my Underground station, waited at the platform, eyes distractedly wandering about--and what do they see, but bloody Billis standing poised and wax-like on the escalator and going down to my platform.

I sat down and had a little quiet time by myself.

As the train arrived, the guy got on it at the last carriage and I lost him. When I went home later that day, I checked online to see if the actor who played Billis hadn't died or something, making me his chosen conduit to the other world, so to speak. I found out he was called Murray Melvin, and he was very much alive.

At this point the Scully in me raised an eyebrow to the Mulder in me, and next time I saw Billis waiting for the Jubilee Line, I marched over to him and said "Hello, I'm very sorry, but aren't you Murray Melvin?"

To cut a long story short, it was him, he was my neighbour and over the following year we struck a casual acquaintanceship where we'd bump into each other and walk together, chatting about the area, TV, etc. I actually told him I was moving back home, when I saw him last--some three weeks before my departure--and he was very sweet and said he'd miss our little chats, and wished me best of luck.

I invent stories, but nothing beats real life.:D

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

That's a wonderful story indeed! He sounds so sweet! *________*

Funny thing is, I lived in Venice my whole life, and there's tons of famous people who come here, and my dad would see at least one famous actor/actress every week, and I never saw anyone, because I suck at recognising faces. Plus I'm always with my head in the clouds. But mostly the faces thing.

I just watched the first episode of S2, and wow! I can't wait to see more! I was so hoping we'd get to see more Time Agents, and this Captain John character was so intriguing and scary and hot. I do hope he'll be back!

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

I was in Venice with my flatmate a few years back, for three days if that--and she managed to see some famous actress in a shop. So even tourist see them but not you.:)

The funny thing was that some months later I saw Kai Owen (spell?) who plays Gwen's boyfriend Rhys on another Underground platform in Central London. So in that huge city I saw by chance TWO people from Torchwood but had to go to events to see anyone else from any other TV show or film.:)

(Also, I loved Venice--I was just about to post this without saying it, cos you know, you must be fed up with hearing it. But still. I went off on my own in quieter, less touristy areas and it was lovely.)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Actually I love hearing that people like Venice. Believe it or not, most of my life my friends would always tell me "sure, it's pretty, but you can't live here", while to me it's the only place where I feel completely at home. No cars, no fast lanes, everything's just at my pace. And the smell of salty water, and old buildings. *_____*