It's not like writing comedy pieces with ghosts, & c., as I have in the past.
Well, that's fun too, and sometimes it's a matter of balancing the deep stuff and the light stuff in such a way that's convincing but not too heavy or expository.
He's been around for several hundred years ... psychologically and emotionally, by experiences in his original lifespan.
That makes sense, like the theory that events we encounter when young make a stronger impression than those of middle age. I think there are limits to this - I certainly know people whose personalities were changed by midlife experiences - but there's a basic truth to it.
Put into Torchwood terms, wherever Jack goes, he'll still be a 51st cnetury sort of guy - even though events of the 1940s and on the Game Station clearly overturned his life and thinking.
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Date: 2007-04-24 04:55 pm (UTC)Well, that's fun too, and sometimes it's a matter of balancing the deep stuff and the light stuff in such a way that's convincing but not too heavy or expository.
He's been around for several hundred years ... psychologically and emotionally, by experiences in his original lifespan.
That makes sense, like the theory that events we encounter when young make a stronger impression than those of middle age. I think there are limits to this - I certainly know people whose personalities were changed by midlife experiences - but there's a basic truth to it.
Put into Torchwood terms, wherever Jack goes, he'll still be a 51st cnetury sort of guy - even though events of the 1940s and on the Game Station clearly overturned his life and thinking.