My $.02 on the Torchwood News

[neadods]

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To keep this from being entirely content free, and because everyone's posting their $.02 about Torchwood being picked up: (WARNING: I'm not squeeing)

Starz can afford it, at least. It shouldn't look or be cheap. And it sounds like John Barrowman and Eve Myles will get some free trips out of filming.

However, it's being run by the exact same team and RTD has already said that the first episode is "shocking and touching," for which I read "bloodsoaked and emotionally manipulative." As I still have not forgiven them for the end of COE, I intend to neither be shocked, touched, nor watching. Maybe if they get through without killing off 60% of the cast and torturing children to death onscreen, I'll catch up after.

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[mtgat]

I don't know that you have. Share?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

As I said, this came out of the mystery genre, which is subdivided into cozy and hardboiled. Someone at a Malice Domestic once pointed out that although there are certain expected features of each (cozy = amateur detective, hardboiled = usually a pro) what REALLY distinguishes them is the underlying worldview:

Cozy - The world has a fundamental order; people as a whole are generally good. Something has happened to breach the order and it is up to the hero/ine to re-establish balance so everyone can live in peace.

Hardboiled - The world is uncaring and tends to chaos; people are at best self-interested and usually out for what they can get. The hero/ine is staving off entropy and the predation of the weak by the strong until s/he inevitably falls in battle.

Superman, cozy; Batman hardboiled. Buffy, cozy; Angel, hardboiled. Doctor Who, cozy; Torchwood, hardboiled.

[mtgat]

I like this analogy.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It really seems to sum up the two fundamental types of storytelling.