Things I'm thinking about at this particular moment

  1. Whether I should stop wasting time on the internet and go to bed.
  2. Whether another stubby of cider is out of the question before bed.
  3. Will I participate in the National Day of Action for marriage equality tomorrow, or go and see Soderbugh's Che film in two parts at the Melbourne International Film Festival instead?
  4. Why so many gay Torchwood fans are still whining about the death of one particular character in Children of Earth. The writer has every right to kill off his own character you dickheads; just because you're gay and the character was queer doesn't give you any special right to demand RTD ressurect him RIGHT NOW! Jeeeesus.
  5. Have my regular blog readers noticed the sudden increase in film reviews in the last week that are unconnected with the film festival? (If you have, it's because I'm now handling film reviews for the paper I work on, as well as TV reviews, but I don't plan on posting the latter here just yet - I don't think the world really needs another review of The Farmer Wants a Wife season four...).
  6. Whether I should stop wasting time on the internet and go to bed.

Comments

conrad said…
I was wondering why you were seeing even more films!

and if you were just about to go to bed, you could add:

7. A big hairy buff guy.

to things you were thinking (or dreaming) of.
1/8/09 19:02
s7610ra said…
The death in Torchwood actually is pro-queer.. it's a romantic gay tragedy. Anyway, he was bi.. and I know how prejudiced you gays are against bi folk ;-)
3/8/09 05:21
caoin said…
I agree with you about the whining Richard and the suggestion that they resurrect Ianto is plainly absurd, BUT I have to say I couldn't really focus on the rest of the story. I just kept thinking "but they killed Ianto".

I felt like it totally unbalanced the arc of the story which ended on a total downer. I suppose he was trying to allow for non-renewal of the series, but really he went too far.

And although Jack's hardly an ordinary character who would be expected to have ordinary relationships, it's still hard to get away from the superficial interpretation: bi-curious guy has emotionally unsatisfying relationship with a man and dies.

Sure if it was all sweetness and light that would be boring, but I think it would've been better tragedy if Ianto had had some unalloyed happiness in there somewhere.

But I should already know not to trust Davies with emotional stuff. He just doesn't know when to stop and I can only guess the page with the word subtlety on it is missing from his dictionary.
5/8/09 14:36
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