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iainjclark ([personal profile] iainjclark) wrote2007-01-11 08:34 am

Torchwood review

My review of the Torchwood season finale is up1 at Strange Horizons today, should you feel yourself overcome with curiosity...

1 "The reviews section. Separate from the articles, outside the poetry, beyond the art gallery."

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
I believe that's my job. Just point me at the right community.

[identity profile] snowking.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
SLAPS FOR THE SLAP GOD!

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
I can't tell if they allow individual posts about reviews or whether they want them all aggregated into the comments on one post. Guess I'll make the post and see what happens.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
No, wait, they do have to be as comments. That sucks.

[identity profile] snowking.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps Iain can re-write it as fanfic.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
I believe that's Tim's speciality.

[identity profile] snowking.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
I believe [livejournal.com profile] torchwood_three is our last, best hope for slapfights.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
I have duly emailed them.

Although really, as I think I said before, surely the way to start a slapfight about Torchwood is to say that it's good?

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
They didn't use the link! Bastards.

[identity profile] snowking.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
What does it take to start a slapfight with these people?!
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[identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the internet has finally evolved beyond the need for slapfights. The alternative is that we lack the necessary skills to get people to argue about Torchwood, which is pretty scary.
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[identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
They didn't use the link! Bastards.

More gallingly they *have* just included a link to syfyportal's disconcertingly positive review of the final two episodes (including dwarves, apparently).

I've emailed them about Strange Horizons myself to see if that helps!

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-13 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it has done: I just got confirmation that they're going to use the link today. Alternatively, maybe they just get vastly more email that we imagine.
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[identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com 2007-01-13 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I just got confirmation that they're going to use the link today.

Yes, me too!

Alternatively, maybe they just get vastly more email that we imagine.

Judging from the scary amount of fanfic this is certainly possible.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-01-13 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
And it seems to have generated two new comments already ...
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[identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com 2007-01-15 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, thanks for those. I'm pleased the review is getting noticed, although one of them didn't read past the second paragraph. :-)

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[identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com 2007-01-11 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps Iain can re-write it as fanfic.

I think it would need more sex. A lot more sex.
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[identity profile] iainjclark.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I've just looked at some of the fanfic titles. Seriously, who watches Torchwood and thinks "this could be great if only it had more slash!"