I think this may be where I'm the most disappointed so far. It's funny, because it's almost exactly what I thought it'd be. That is - very much like CoE. I expect that they'll delve a lot further into the whole thing, having extended Jack's UNNATURAL immortality to all of humanity (I bet it's ALL ABOUT HIM, and someone has done a thing a bit like the Immortality Gate and put his template onto the whole world, but leaving him mortal. And then he'll have to choose to be immortal again or something to save the world. /random speculation). But, like CoE, it'll be... art? I sort of hesitate to use the word, but it's the only things that really fits. It's what I mean when I talk about it being like a movie - it will have one singular focus, and I never have much to say about that. Look at Guernica - it's a brutal depiction of warfare, but there's nothing to add to it. I admire it, but it doesn't *do* anything - I never wrote much meta on CoE f.ex. because it didn't need adding to.
Plus there's the fact that it's all story-driven, with the characters subservient to the story, which is fair enough, but I always go for the character stuff. Original Torchwood was all character-driven. Doctor Who is ridiculously character-driven. (Also see Buffy and Angel.) I like me some layers, rather than ONE BIG IDEA.
So I expect the concept to be neat. I expect people like solitary_summer and green_maia to write exquisite meta. Which I will nod along to, and then go do something else. Like write Jack/Ianto meta... ♥
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I think this may be where I'm the most disappointed so far.
It's funny, because it's almost exactly what I thought it'd be. That is - very much like CoE. I expect that they'll delve a lot further into the whole thing, having extended Jack's UNNATURAL immortality to all of humanity (I bet it's ALL ABOUT HIM, and someone has done a thing a bit like the Immortality Gate and put his template onto the whole world, but leaving him mortal. And then he'll have to choose to be immortal again or something to save the world. /random speculation). But, like CoE, it'll be... art? I sort of hesitate to use the word, but it's the only things that really fits. It's what I mean when I talk about it being like a movie - it will have one singular focus, and I never have much to say about that. Look at Guernica - it's a brutal depiction of warfare, but there's nothing to add to it. I admire it, but it doesn't *do* anything - I never wrote much meta on CoE f.ex. because it didn't need adding to.
Plus there's the fact that it's all story-driven, with the characters subservient to the story, which is fair enough, but I always go for the character stuff. Original Torchwood was all character-driven. Doctor Who is ridiculously character-driven. (Also see Buffy and Angel.) I like me some layers, rather than ONE BIG IDEA.
So I expect the concept to be neat. I expect people like