Torchwood and Life...

[fajrdrako]

At first I thought I was getting echoes of Torchwood in Life just because I was being delusionally obsessive. This isn't a problem, you understand - being obsessively deluded where Captain Jack Harkness is concerned is sheer pleasure.

The first time I saw Crews standing on a roof I thought Torchwood, and then dismissed it as a silly thought - it was just a hero on a roof, and he had a reason for being on a roof. Anybody on a roof these days will make me think of Captain Jack Harkness, with or without a greatcoat.¹ And when Charlie Crews was standing on a rooftop with Ted, and Ted made a Batman reference, I thought of the Batman references made in connection with Torchwood - but of course any hero lurking on a rooftop will make a person think of Batman. That's what Batman is all about.

Then Charlie Crews stands on a rooftop with a guy named Captain Jack Reese.

When they found the Zen master's dessicated body in the construction site, I thought of the body found in the construction site at the beginning of Torchwood's "Greeks Bearing Gifts" and laughed at myself.

Then I realized they were playing as background music the same song used in Torchwood's episode "Day One".

They are messing with my head.

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¹ Though not invariably. The rooftop in New York in Heroes where Claude kept his pigeons and Charles had his terrace does not remind me of Torchwood in the least.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Oh, now, "messing with my head" is such a strong way to say it...! hee

I think this is a clear case of Northern-Exposure-style homage. Echoes of other shows and characters, coming and going for no real reason other than that... it's really fun.

Think of it as the fan-insider version of the adult word-games they always got away with in cartoons like Rocky & Bullwinkle (for instance, when someone walks in on Boris Badenoff trying to manufacture some high-class explosives, saying, "What are you cooking on that hibachi, eh?" Which went right over my head at age ten, but when I saw it again when I was 25... fun.

I'm now evern more eager to see this show. Can I visit you for a week in January? No, maybe March... well, late April... um, when does the snow usually melt?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love that kind of homage in a show. Just... borrowing good bits. Fairly subtle, probably only a fan would notice. Sometimes it's overt, like when Andy mentions "Mulder and Scully" on Torchwood. Or when Hiro talks about Star Trek on Heroes. That's fun, too - all the more fun, when George Takei is his father!

When does the snow melt? (Sigh.) When it bloody well feels like it. Usually... April. Late April. I'm always impatient by then.