Cranky Liz spam!

[lizbee]

I got home from work, and somehow it was like INSTA!BAD MOOD! Usually it's the other way around. But I sat down, and suddenly today's stomach cramps turned into hiccups, and then there was the casting call for the new Torchwood characters, and that was like RTD had sat down to create the maximum amount of fail possible. So no good mood for Liz! Maybe I'll feel better after I've had a shower and a glass of wine*.

In the meantime, let's all admire RTD's casting call. The new characters on Torchwood are:

- asshole white guy
- woman of colour who unrequitedly loves asshole white guy
- Roman Polanski





Things which don't seem to upset belly: lighter red wines, smoked salmon and marscapone pizza, strawberry and lime cider, frozen spaghetti bolognese, Arnotts Country Cheese crackers, raspberry and orange juice. Things which do upset belly: EVERYTHING ELSE.

Comments

[violetisblue]

But hey, at least there won't be any women in miniskirts! I haven't stopped laughing since I first read this. I may never stop.

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[violetisblue]

Criswell predicts that events of "significance" turning around Oswald + Esther's highlighted devout Christianity = pedo!Christ incoming on runway seven. I'll be over in the corner here, laughing some more.

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[be_themoon]

Oh god please no.

I have my issues with Christianity, but. That's just ABSURD. They can't do that. They CAN'T.

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[violetisblue]

Despite the aforementioned laughter I'm totally serious in this prediction, based on RTD's fascination with Christian themes and messiah-figures and his take on the concept of "forgiveness" as played out in previous stuff. Also he seems like the sort of fella who would enjoy poking at what he imagines the "mainstream" religious sensibilities in his new resident country to be with a giant stick, wheeee I'm so edgy.

[violetisblue]

I rolled my eyes at the fervently Christian character being named "Esther" as well.

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[be_themoon]

The awful thing is, you might be right. I can definitely see where his various tendencies would come into play here and lead to something truly horrific. Messiah-figures, he does have a Thing for them. Jack, Ten, Owen the King of the Weevils fighting Death.

Yeah, I knew I wasn't going to be watching this season (not after the utter FAIL of Children of Earth), but now I'm REALLY not watching it. *sigh*

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[violetisblue]

"Messiah-figures, he does have a Thing for them. Jack, Ten, Owen the King of the Weevils fighting Death."

And Ten's divine-intervention-style "I forgive you" to the Master and (in offscreen interviews) all that stuff about how we should pity the Master because he's mentally ill, not hate him as evil. If that sort of reasoning comes into play for the pedo it should be...interesting.

"I knew I wasn't going to be watching this season (not after the utter FAIL of Children of Earth), but now I'm REALLY not watching it."

I drifted away from Torchwood after S1 and so anything I know about it now comes from my flist, which, seems frankly like a better setup than actually watching it.

[brewsternorth]

Sounding a note of caution: are we sure this is a genuine casting notice?

[violetisblue]

It'll be written from the heart, though, that's the only important thing.

[dancesontrains]

AGH

[be_themoon]

Yeah, that. Ugh, the Tinkerbell!Jesus!Doctor was really, really distasteful for me.

... he WOULDN'T. owww, my head, it hurts. D:

I haven't watched Torchwood regularly at all - S2 I liked better than S1, though. More Ianto, Owen became much less of an asshole and even a sympathetic figure, though I was never quite able to fully like him because HI, RAPIST. Tosh was lovely in it, too. It made me sad for the ladies, though - they didn't get enough awesome, though they did manage to get some good moments in.

[evilgeniuslady]

Sadly I think he thinks he's being edgy and not deliberately trolling, although I guess we'll have to wait and see what he says in interviews to know for sure (if we ever will). I do think he gauges his work by fandom's reactions, though - if fandom reacts loudly, then he's doing it right. Nevermind what the reaction actually is, as long as it's loud then it's a-ok with him. "Love me or hate me, just don't ignore me."

[violetisblue]

If it's not, it's a damned funny prank. *tips hat in advance*

[melengro]

I'm reading a Charles Williams novel right now (HELLO, FEMALE CHARACTER NAMED LESTER FURNIVAL!) so I didn't even notice that. I just noticed the generic, unreal 'LOL SHE'S NOT WHITE' surname.

[melengro]

There's nothing specifically saying that Esther can't wear a miniskirt, except for the fact that Rusty probably thinks that all people who are religious live like Amish or unreconstructed Mormons.

[melengro]

YOU GOTTA BE SHITTING ME.

...you're not. Are you.

[phosfate]

He's like Owen the rapist, but EDGY!

[violetisblue]

Except in those Dawkinsian star cults, where you're required either to wear miniskirts or dress at all times like a cheeky Edwardian servant-boy.

[melengro]

Hey now, Romana sometimes dressed like an Edwardian servant-GIRL!

[violetisblue]

That surely must've been in connection with some esoteric ritual or other, though. (There is star-cult fic out there somewhere, isn't there? Or is that hoping for too much?)

[melengro]

The more the Dawkins star cult resembles the Order of the Golden Dawn, the happier I am.

[violetisblue]

Brewsternorth points out the whole thing could be a prank. Which, I love a good harmless prank, so either way everybody wins. :-D

[violetisblue]

Is that one of Aleister Crowley's projects? What I know about modern occultism would fit into a beetle's thimble.

[melengro]

Not originally. Aleister Crowley seized control after a leadership battle with Charles Williams. Which, as you can imagine, has been made into a graphic novel.

[violetisblue]

That....looks kind of interesting, actually. Hmm.