Mini-rant...

[fajrdrako]

I would be really, really happy if I never read another Jack/Ianto fic in which Jack asks Ianto to stop calling him 'sir'.

Please.

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Re: Part 2

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Speaking in very general terms, I'd say theme of Doctor Who series one was the Doctor's relationship with himself - coming to engage with life again after the Time War. The theme of series two was the Doctor coming to terms with his love for Rose. Each series had a huge cosmic scope, playing the theme in various ways in each episode.

I find that Torchwood fan writing has so far taking an unusually narrow scope - using the Hub as the setting, not doing much in the way of massive AUs or potentialities, but sticking close to the characters and events we see. Being introspective rather than speculative. This is neither good nor bad, just an interesting way for it to have gone.

Re: Part 2

[myfavouriteplum.livejournal.com]

Well, I think a narrow scope is natural for Torchwood. We still know so little about Torchwood itself and about the main characters. It's not enough for the AU kind of imagination...
And like I said in another comment, the hub, as a basement, has a claustrophobic, prison-like feel. The hub is one of the most impressive and definitive things in Torchwood. It kind of influences our scope, I guess.

Re: Part 2

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

We still know so little about Torchwood itself and about the main characters.

More's the pity, but it whets the curiosity.

the hub, as a basement, has a claustrophobic, prison-like feel. </i. And that wonderful contrast between the old and the new, the shabby and the spiffy, the old-fashioned and the high-tech, light and dark, familiarity and mystery.... I love the way it has so many rooms and tunnels and levels, we don't even know how many, it just stretches out under Cardiff... but the tunnels don't actually lead anywhere except to dark recesses of the imagination. They all love working there and treat is as a home (all but Gwen, who has a 'real' home, because of Rhys), but there's something threatening and scary about it.

Re: Part 2

[myfavouriteplum.livejournal.com]

So the hub is both 'bigger on the inside' and 'something lurking in the dark'...

Re: Part 2

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, both at once. And while the TARDIS travels in space and time, the Hub is static in space and time, but space and time fit around it... moving with the occasional temporal shift.

I like to think of the SUV as a sort of miniature mobile tendril of the Hub that reaches out when they go on a road trip, always in communication with the home base.