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firefly124Someone (I no longer remember who and it's pages back on my flist) had posted a link to this narration thingy about the Weeping Angels by Jack, which prompted conversation about what would happen if they got their hands on Jack. And someone linked to the fic below, which explores that exact possibility. Very cool take on what would happen in terms of the paradox of trying to steal the future of someone who's essentially immortal, why Jack can't just walk back into the Hub after living linearly from the time he got sent back to, and what it would take to get Jack back.
If you haven't seen "Blink," it probably won't make sense, though some of the commenters hadn't seen the ep and still enjoyed the fic.
Title: A Heap of Broken Images
Author:solsticezero
Fandoms: Torchwood, Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Characters: Ianto, Gwen, Martha, Jack
Summary: "Ianto, do you know where Jack is?" Statues, letters and the things you can't say in person.
In other and not really all that related news, I've just figured out that the next Classic Who DVDs coming from Netflix are all the 2nd Doctor, as "The War Machines" is the last complete story arc available from the 1st. (And that one had to be reconstructed from bits and pieces here, there, and everywhere, according to the features on the DVD.) "The Tenth Planet" is the arc that includes the regeneration, and the 4th & final ep is missing, whether due to the fire or being discarded or recorded over or whatever. Argh! That story arc also introduces the Cybermen, so I do wish I could at least see the 1st 3 non-missing eps, but if they're available anywhere, Netflix doesn't have them. :-( Oh well.
On a much brighter note, S4 of New Who and S1 & 2 of Torchwood are finally available for streaming on Netflix. (No idea when this happened, but it's within the last few weeks. It'd been driving me crazy for ages that DW S3 could be streamed but not TW S1, which happens before it. And now S1 & S2 are both available. Weird, but I'm not complaining.) This makes the random bits of fact-checking much easier Yes, there's![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
tw_transcripts to check dialogue, but a) if there's a similar one for DW, I've not found it (and if you have, pretty please may I have the link?) and b) sometimes transcripts aren't enough. I don't recall running into this with Buffy as much, which might be because I'd already seen the entire series an unhealthy number of times long before I tried writing Buffyverse fic, but with TW in particular, I find myself rechecking scenes to try to work out how to take certain lines. For example, loads of fics seem to take a particular line from "Adrift" in a way that I'm not sure it was really meant. Just after the hothouse scene, Jack makes the comment about naked hide and seek, and Ianto says, "He cheats. He always cheats." Just looking at the line on the screen, yeah, I can definitely see taking that with a dollop of bitterness and double entendre. But after rewatching that entire exchange a few times, I'm really not convinced that's how it's meant to be taken. The look on Ianto's face is more like fond exasperation, and there are other places GDL has managed to convey Ianto's insecurity just fine, even mixed with other emotions, so I really don't think that's what he's trying to portray, at least not in that scene. (Apparently I'm all about "the author is dead" in interpretation but not the actor. Not so much in this case, as I'm [mostly] going exactly by what I'm seeing on the screen, just as with an "author is dead" approach you go strictly by what's on the page, but I've found that I give more weight to what an actor says in an interview about their understanding of a character than I tend to do with an author. Yay for inconsistency! Though that leads to interesting thoughts about what the differences are between creating a character as a writer versus as an actor. For some other day.)
This turned into a lot more babble than I'd planned. And I'm being downright spammy today, so I think it's high time I shut up and hit "post."
If you haven't seen "Blink," it probably won't make sense, though some of the commenters hadn't seen the ep and still enjoyed the fic.
Title: A Heap of Broken Images
Author:
solsticezeroFandoms: Torchwood, Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Characters: Ianto, Gwen, Martha, Jack
Summary: "Ianto, do you know where Jack is?" Statues, letters and the things you can't say in person.
In other and not really all that related news, I've just figured out that the next Classic Who DVDs coming from Netflix are all the 2nd Doctor, as "The War Machines" is the last complete story arc available from the 1st. (And that one had to be reconstructed from bits and pieces here, there, and everywhere, according to the features on the DVD.) "The Tenth Planet" is the arc that includes the regeneration, and the 4th & final ep is missing, whether due to the fire or being discarded or recorded over or whatever. Argh! That story arc also introduces the Cybermen, so I do wish I could at least see the 1st 3 non-missing eps, but if they're available anywhere, Netflix doesn't have them. :-( Oh well.
On a much brighter note, S4 of New Who and S1 & 2 of Torchwood are finally available for streaming on Netflix. (No idea when this happened, but it's within the last few weeks. It'd been driving me crazy for ages that DW S3 could be streamed but not TW S1, which happens before it. And now S1 & S2 are both available. Weird, but I'm not complaining.) This makes the random bits of fact-checking much easier Yes, there's
tw_transcripts to check dialogue, but a) if there's a similar one for DW, I've not found it (and if you have, pretty please may I have the link?) and b) sometimes transcripts aren't enough. I don't recall running into this with Buffy as much, which might be because I'd already seen the entire series an unhealthy number of times long before I tried writing Buffyverse fic, but with TW in particular, I find myself rechecking scenes to try to work out how to take certain lines. For example, loads of fics seem to take a particular line from "Adrift" in a way that I'm not sure it was really meant. Just after the hothouse scene, Jack makes the comment about naked hide and seek, and Ianto says, "He cheats. He always cheats." Just looking at the line on the screen, yeah, I can definitely see taking that with a dollop of bitterness and double entendre. But after rewatching that entire exchange a few times, I'm really not convinced that's how it's meant to be taken. The look on Ianto's face is more like fond exasperation, and there are other places GDL has managed to convey Ianto's insecurity just fine, even mixed with other emotions, so I really don't think that's what he's trying to portray, at least not in that scene. (Apparently I'm all about "the author is dead" in interpretation but not the actor. Not so much in this case, as I'm [mostly] going exactly by what I'm seeing on the screen, just as with an "author is dead" approach you go strictly by what's on the page, but I've found that I give more weight to what an actor says in an interview about their understanding of a character than I tend to do with an author. Yay for inconsistency! Though that leads to interesting thoughts about what the differences are between creating a character as a writer versus as an actor. For some other day.) This turned into a lot more babble than I'd planned. And I'm being downright spammy today, so I think it's high time I shut up and hit "post."
