Fair comment. I adored them when I was at Uni and in my early 20s. It was the sort of thing that an angsty Uni Student like me, majoring in Philosophy, could get his teeth into. I think if I read them now I'd find them a lot less appealing.
"Remember that warning discussion a while back? The one about people putting their artistic vision over the sensibilities of the people reading their fic, and blaming the victims for reading things that upset them? IMO, RTD's pretty much gone there with every viewer. He didn't have to *show that* long and lovingly and in our faces and think he was being clever and edgy and it's our fault for not turning off the TV the moment Stephen was grabbed by the soldiers."
On relfecting I think that's a fair point. Which is why I'm not argue the point. All I can say is that I found that scene to be anything but RTD does kiddie torture porn. I saw it as confronting piece of TV.
That said, it's not what you're expecting. And I can see why that would have angered you. The last thing you expect to see is child graphically dying and the mother wailing over the corpse.
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Date: 2009-07-12 12:35 pm (UTC)Fair comment. I adored them when I was at Uni and in my early 20s. It was the sort of thing that an angsty Uni Student like me, majoring in Philosophy, could get his teeth into. I think if I read them now I'd find them a lot less appealing.
"Remember that warning discussion a while back? The one about people putting their artistic vision over the sensibilities of the people reading their fic, and blaming the victims for reading things that upset them? IMO, RTD's pretty much gone there with every viewer. He didn't have to *show that* long and lovingly and in our faces and think he was being clever and edgy and it's our fault for not turning off the TV the moment Stephen was grabbed by the soldiers."
On relfecting I think that's a fair point. Which is why I'm not argue the point. All I can say is that I found that scene to be anything but RTD does kiddie torture porn. I saw it as confronting piece of TV.
That said, it's not what you're expecting. And I can see why that would have angered you. The last thing you expect to see is child graphically dying and the mother wailing over the corpse.