All Songs End And All Songs Last Forever

Being not so much a recap of the Character Deaths panel so much as a meditation on the issue that is inclusive of the experience of being there, written by a man drugged to the gills but so bereft of patience on the topic that he is writing it under the influence.

Sally Sparrow: I love old things. They make me feel sad.
Kathy Nightingale: What's good about sad?
Sally Sparrow: It's happy for deep people.
- Doctor Who 03x10, "Blink"

I've been in Torchwood fandom since the show began airing in the UK¹. It's how I spoiled myself for the end of Doctor Who S2 (which at that point was airing on Sci-Fi), and I've been more than casually invested in the thing. Torchwood has ruined me for so many other programs because it's got this magical combination of science fiction, interpersonal drama, and big action. In terms of theme and content it's always been this sort of sweet spot for me against which so many things seem to fall short.

Part of that is, I think, the Doctor Who in it. Part of that is that it manages to be its own strange and miraculous thing.

( But oh, Torchwood has never been a kind thing. )

Three quick things.

- Use LiveJournal? Click links? Your privacy may have been violated to generate revenue.
- Awesome grammar haiku.
- Handling issues of homosexuality in Uganda’s rural media. I found this to be a difficult read on a human level.

And now, g'night.