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]

The reason I wasn't terribly happy with Torchwood season 1 was the wild unevenness of the episodes. For every brilliant ep like They Keep Killing Suzie, you got re-packaged crap like Random Shoes. Just pick a tone and stay with it, willya?

[beccaelizabeth]

*nods*
but the more I heard from the writers the less I think they think they're writing what I was watching, sort of thing. so it may well not see the bad.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

I think my main problem with S1 (apart from the fairy episode) was the wild inconsistency between what everyone involved with it seemed to think they were making and what appeared on my screen every week.

And I've seen a couple of interviews with Chris Chibnall and John Barrowman that makes me think they're addressing this. So I'm exercising cautious optimism.

Although really I just want then to acknowledge that Torchwood are wildly dangerous and mainly inept and not, in fact, Mulder and Scully. And I think UNIT could provide a good foil for that.