1) I think she works as the audience-identification character in the beginning, when we're being introduced to Torchwood. She works even better to show the slowly corruptive effect Torchwood has as she loses her humanity bit by bit. It's important, I think, that we get to see that, that we're not faced with these extragovernmental monarchists who think they are better than everybody else and can do whatever they want and don't have to answer to anybody without understanding how these people came to be that way.
2) Sometimes but rarely. She's much more important to the thematic thrust and emotional arc of the show. Her position as audience viewpoint doesn't well-equip her with what is necessaery to move the plot forward; she tends to be more reactive than active.
3) I think I can relate to her, that Eve does a good job making her feel emotionally real and posessing a human warmth even as she's being corrupted absolutely.
4) OMG, favorite current TV show. A show about secret agents which doesn't make it look like the violation of civil liberties is a good thing? (Although I'm still uncertain exactly what British civil liberties actually include. But certainly the curtailment of said liberties, even if allowable under the unwritten constitution, should fall under the jurisdiction of Parliament and not the Sovereign.) Love. Admittedly I worry that a) the audience doesn't always get the satire, b) it's not intended as satire.
5) I love Gwen/Owen. It's broken and destructive and so perfectly encapsulates everything which Torchwood represents.
6) Hmm, it has been a while since I saw an episode. *rereads old posts tagged as Torchwood* I think she could stand to be developed a little more; she doesn't have to just be an audience stand-in.
7) I don't think we'd interest each other in the least.
8) She might be second after Suzie, I don't remember.
9) Neither.
10) Somehow I have the feeling that she's not? It seems to be the fairly common prominent female character misogyny deal; it's not like we haven't seen it in a dozen other fandoms.
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Date: 2007-12-15 12:00 am (UTC)2) Sometimes but rarely. She's much more important to the thematic thrust and emotional arc of the show. Her position as audience viewpoint doesn't well-equip her with what is necessaery to move the plot forward; she tends to be more reactive than active.
3) I think I can relate to her, that Eve does a good job making her feel emotionally real and posessing a human warmth even as she's being corrupted absolutely.
4) OMG, favorite current TV show. A show about secret agents which doesn't make it look like the violation of civil liberties is a good thing? (Although I'm still uncertain exactly what British civil liberties actually include. But certainly the curtailment of said liberties, even if allowable under the unwritten constitution, should fall under the jurisdiction of Parliament and not the Sovereign.) Love. Admittedly I worry that a) the audience doesn't always get the satire, b) it's not intended as satire.
5) I love Gwen/Owen. It's broken and destructive and so perfectly encapsulates everything which Torchwood represents.
6) Hmm, it has been a while since I saw an episode. *rereads old posts tagged as Torchwood* I think she could stand to be developed a little more; she doesn't have to just be an audience stand-in.
7) I don't think we'd interest each other in the least.
8) She might be second after Suzie, I don't remember.
9) Neither.
10) Somehow I have the feeling that she's not? It seems to be the fairly common prominent female character misogyny deal; it's not like we haven't seen it in a dozen other fandoms.