Hmmm, I think that would depend very much on context and outcome, but that does seem more promising than a mere corporate/government conspiracy. rm has an interesting (flocked) post (written after seeing ep 4) where she says (amongst other things):
But the heavy-handed, not allegory, but echo of media response to AIDS is making me very, very angry.
Do you all remember all those TV movies about plague ships for AIDS victims so we'd understand how inhumane it was to put tattoos on people and put them in fenced compounds? There were a lot of TV movies like that when I was in high school, because there were a lot of politicians saying shit like that. You know the cops wore rubber gloves when ACT-UP protested at the White House during the Regan years; you know, in case touching the protestors gave them AIDS?
And all I can do is watch this episode and say, "Oh yeah, I've seen this story; and I've seen this story when it was political, not just in memory of the political. And it's a true story, in the sense of how people behave. But fuck you if I wanted to see it again."
It's like CoE - Torchwood made a vehicle for RTD's agenda. Which you know... His show. But it'd be better without that label.
OMG, did you see the trailer when it came out? Even if you did, go watch it again cause you'll get so much more out of it. Oh I have watched (and re-watched and re-re-watched) that many, MANY times. Possibly the greatest trailer EVER. Gives me goosebumps. *flails* Also I found this icon last night and it's rather brilliant. ♥
Hee! I am on board for this plot development! It won't be that though. Not INHUMANE enough. (I mean, they're setting up concentration camps now...)
Yeah, this was the heart of Sepinwall's gripe, with the way that manifests in character motivations and cardboard bad guys and general heavy-handed story telling. Humans are fucked up, did you know?
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But the heavy-handed, not allegory, but echo of media response to AIDS is making me very, very angry.
Do you all remember all those TV movies about plague ships for AIDS victims so we'd understand how inhumane it was to put tattoos on people and put them in fenced compounds? There were a lot of TV movies like that when I was in high school, because there were a lot of politicians saying shit like that. You know the cops wore rubber gloves when ACT-UP protested at the White House during the Regan years; you know, in case touching the protestors gave them AIDS?
And all I can do is watch this episode and say, "Oh yeah, I've seen this story; and I've seen this story when it was political, not just in memory of the political. And it's a true story, in the sense of how people behave. But fuck you if I wanted to see it again."
It's like CoE - Torchwood made a vehicle for RTD's agenda. Which you know... His show. But it'd be better without that label.
OMG, did you see the trailer when it came out? Even if you did, go watch it again cause you'll get so much more out of it.
Oh I have watched (and re-watched and re-re-watched) that many, MANY times. Possibly the greatest trailer EVER. Gives me goosebumps. *flails* Also I found this icon last night and it's rather brilliant. ♥
Hee! I am on board for this plot development!
It won't be that though. Not INHUMANE enough. (I mean, they're setting up
concentrationcamps now...)Yeah, this was the heart of Sepinwall's gripe, with the way that manifests in character motivations and cardboard bad guys and general heavy-handed story telling.
Humans are fucked up, did you know?