Doctor's choice was never, and never would be, based on slavery ethics.
Fair enough, iirc he didn't have a choice, but I think the episode was "supposed" to have a tone of cautious optimism rather than tragedy at the end.
maybe the implication is that they no longer have the red eye thing but still have problems.
That would make sense -- and best support more Ood episodes. Maybe we could have one with an Ood that doesn't go evil but is just a character, that would be cool. But the impression I got from the ending was that they were supposed to be all fixed.
Do you mean in Aliens of London/World War Three?
Yeah. No, I suppose they can't have been. I had the impression it was (in the 60s) a fairly small, elite squad, so knocking off ten officers might well have ruined it. But in actual fact, there must also always have been non-british installations.
In fact, I felt that the series wanted UNIT out of the way so Torchwood could play the alien science acquisition role, so threw in a mention (squee).
But yes, what you said makes sense, so I'm glad they're back.
Another question about Torchwood is how the Cardiff and London branches co-existed,
When the Torchwood series first started I had the impression Torchwood had been around for ages, recently abused for insane political ends and nearly wiped out by cybermen, at which point Jack having been in some other role, resurrected Torchwood Cardiff from whatever people were left. But I didn't really follow the series, so that might not be very consistent.
(Someone did opine that you basically had to accept the series as separate things)
P.S. I rewatched Smith and Jones
Yay! I didn't love it 100%, but I liked a lot of it. (Especially that the doctor acquired an alias without seeming to acquire a name.) I never had a problem with Martha (except that it was a retread of the companion-in-love trope), but lots of people had objected so I wanted to reserve judgement.
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Date: 2008-04-24 12:35 pm (UTC)Fair enough, iirc he didn't have a choice, but I think the episode was "supposed" to have a tone of cautious optimism rather than tragedy at the end.
maybe the implication is that they no longer have the red eye thing but still have problems.
That would make sense -- and best support more Ood episodes. Maybe we could have one with an Ood that doesn't go evil but is just a character, that would be cool. But the impression I got from the ending was that they were supposed to be all fixed.
Do you mean in Aliens of London/World War Three?
Yeah. No, I suppose they can't have been. I had the impression it was (in the 60s) a fairly small, elite squad, so knocking off ten officers might well have ruined it. But in actual fact, there must also always have been non-british installations.
In fact, I felt that the series wanted UNIT out of the way so Torchwood could play the alien science acquisition role, so threw in a mention (squee).
But yes, what you said makes sense, so I'm glad they're back.
Another question about Torchwood is how the Cardiff and London branches co-existed,
When the Torchwood series first started I had the impression Torchwood had been around for ages, recently abused for insane political ends and nearly wiped out by cybermen, at which point Jack having been in some other role, resurrected Torchwood Cardiff from whatever people were left. But I didn't really follow the series, so that might not be very consistent.
(Someone did opine that you basically had to accept the series as separate things)
P.S. I rewatched Smith and Jones
Yay! I didn't love it 100%, but I liked a lot of it. (Especially that the doctor acquired an alias without seeming to acquire a name.) I never had a problem with Martha (except that it was a retread of the companion-in-love trope), but lots of people had objected so I wanted to reserve judgement.