TW S2

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My problem with Torchwood season 2 isn't that it hasn't given us any episodes which live up to the glory and genius of a "They Keep Killing" or a "Countrycide." Indeed, there have been some really good episodes.

Instead, it's that they've so reconceptualized the characters, tone, and and structure that a "They Keep Killing" or a "Countrycide" wouldn't even make sense. That kind of story--which was the epitome of everything I loved about season 1--well, I'm just not sure it's even possible anymore.

And I mourn for that.

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I never had to believe the writers knew it, as long as I could reasonably construct the text as saying it. But now I can't even think that much.

And it's not just that the old version fit my politics better--it's that the old version was something truly new and different and exciting and boundary-pushing, and now it's just 24 with scifi/fantasy elements.