Torchwood fears

[alixtii]

All the people who didn't like Torchwood for the first series for reasons I couldn't fathom are cautiously optimistic about the second series--and for some reason that has me really scared. I mean, there's a lot to look forward to. UNIT has a lot of promise to act as an effective foil to Torchwood Three, as a representation of how protecting the world should look like. But I'm afraid it's going to abandon the darkness of the first series, in exchange for--I'm not even sure what. Camp, maybe?

If Torchwood abandons the fact that Torchwood members aren't good people, then it effectively validates everything that happens in the first series--it becomes a show about why hacking into CCTV systems (still seems like an oxymoron to me) isn't so bad after all. And we really don't need another show like that (we already have 24, God help us) and I can't put my support behind a show that encourages the view that civil liberties aren't important.

The show I fell in love with is about how power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, while acknowledging the allure and appeal of that power. If series two turns into a show about how absolute power is actually sorta cool, I'm not sure what I will do. Cry, maybe.

*crosses fingers*

ETA: I watched the first two minutes and I feel a little bit better. *still crossing fingers*

Comments

[booster17.livejournal.com]

I give it a chance based on everyone's first season being one where you throw things at a wall to see what works and what doesn't. To me, season 2 is the make or break bit. More Killing, less Shoes please.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

As long as its not a season of fairy episodes (they were good guys in the fairy episode! wtf?), I'll be happy, I think.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Actually, thinking about the fairy episode brings me to an unavoidable conclusion : it's not a Torchwood ep alas, but a Sapphire and Steel episode instead. It's a good solid story, but it just doesn't fit into the TW universe. I suspect everyone loved the ending so much they kept the whole thing without retooling the front end too much.

I liked it, but then I'm a massive Sapphire and Steel fanboi.