I've read the first part. I think I've got it bookmarked on my delicious... If I don't, I should. I meant I'd like to read the next bit. :)
I know I read Twilight Streets a bit quickly, but the whole thing with Bilis and light and dark seemed like so much nonsense, to me. Extravagant handwaving, without enough substance, just a whole heap of grandiose last-minute exposition. I was really disappointed, because the initial idea was really interesting: that there was this area of Cardiff that Jack was basically allergic to because of his condition, because time was fucked up there. I ended up basically forcing myself to finish it, in between eyerolling.
Almost Perfect, from what little I've heard of it, kind of sets my teeth on edge. I don't like that to have a really Jack/Ianto heavy plot, they had to genderswap one of them. It makes my brain scream 'heteronormatism!!!'. That said, there was a Jack/Ianto genderswap fic in TARDIS big bang this round that I quite liked, so maybe I'd like the book if I gave it a chance. I don't know.
HAPPY ENDING IS THE KEY. Or at least a hopeful ending. That for me is the major difference between what they did in Exit Wounds, and what they did in COE. As I said on kerryblaze's journal, 'the end is where we start from' is miles apart from the note COE left things on. You can put your characters through the worst kinds of shit, but unless you leave them with something, the viewers/readers are going to be left in that bad place. Dark fic/horror is a whole different genre, something people read/watch deliberately to go to that grim place, but up until COE, Torchwood was NEVER that. All the most traumatic eps I can think of have an upbeat note that end, even a little one, just enough to keep people tuning in for the next episode. Cyberwoman ends with the nod of forgiveness, or at least truce between Jack and Ianto. Countrycide, with Gwen finding solace with Owen. Even Adrift, which is arguably the most 'realistic' depiction of the dangers of the Rift to the general human population closes on the reconciliation between Gwen and Rhys.
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I know I read Twilight Streets a bit quickly, but the whole thing with Bilis and light and dark seemed like so much nonsense, to me. Extravagant handwaving, without enough substance, just a whole heap of grandiose last-minute exposition. I was really disappointed, because the initial idea was really interesting: that there was this area of Cardiff that Jack was basically allergic to because of his condition, because time was fucked up there. I ended up basically forcing myself to finish it, in between eyerolling.
Almost Perfect, from what little I've heard of it, kind of sets my teeth on edge. I don't like that to have a really Jack/Ianto heavy plot, they had to genderswap one of them. It makes my brain scream 'heteronormatism!!!'. That said, there was a Jack/Ianto genderswap fic in TARDIS big bang this round that I quite liked, so maybe I'd like the book if I gave it a chance. I don't know.
HAPPY ENDING IS THE KEY. Or at least a hopeful ending. That for me is the major difference between what they did in Exit Wounds, and what they did in COE. As I said on