kaydeefalls | more tv stuff.

So. Torchwood.

Of course I'll watch it. And this sounds vastly preferable to the rumored American reboot they were talking about for a while. But I'm still kind of twisted up inside from CoE, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel right now. Honestly, I'd probably have felt the same way about CoE itself beforehand -- how could there be Torchwood without Owen and Tosh? -- except that fannish spoiler osmosis meant that I knew we lost them before I'd watched a single episode of the show, so I was bracing myself for it the whole time. Much like I'd always known the Doctor would lose Rose (granted, not death, but still), so I had no problem with new companions; or, hell, even getting warning well in advance when we'd be getting a new Doctor. The Whoniverse had never surprised me with a character death before Ianto. And then CoE ended on such a low note -- it made it hard for me to think we'd ever see any new Torchwood, after that. So I just need to...adjust.

Look, all they need to do is put together a new team, and I'm sold, really. I LOVE teams. I'd been thrilled by the possibility of rebuilding the team in CoE, and crushed when that never panned out. (Losing Ianto but gaining an actual team with, say, Lois and Rupesh? Totally would have been a fair trade, in my books, no matter that Ianto will be always be my favorite.) So: new faces, they say? I'm holding you to that. And "new" like Gwen was new in "Everything Changes", not new like Frobisher, please.

And on a TV-related note, shit, I've already fallen behind in the TV meme. But it's not like I've got a real deadline, so I'll just pick up where I left off:

Day 04 - Your favorite show ever

I AM PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF ANSWERING THIS QUESTION. Favorite to watch right now? Doctor Who. Favorite to participate in fandom (which, yes, has a lot to do with my enjoyment of a TV show)? Torchwood. Favorite to rewatch with new people a billion times? Firefly. Favorite comedy? Coupling. Favorite in that I think it's technically the best? West Wing.

But I'm going to interpret "favorite ever" as the show that I loved the longest, that still makes me giddy with nostalgic glee, that I can still happily revisit -- read fic, rewatch episodes, reread meta -- and it puts me in a sheer unadulterated happy place. The X-Files. I started watching it at age eleven, right in the middle of season 4; I devoured earlier seasons in reruns, dove into the internet to try to piece together the chronology of the mythology. It was my first fandom, my first fanfic to read and write, my first OTP (Mulder/Scully). I stuck through it all the way until the bitter end (and, yeah, the last couple of seasons were kind of shit, but I still loved it unconditionally). That show, more than anything else, shaped the person I am today. It gave me Dana Scully, a short, beautiful, fiercely intelligent, deeply loyal, ass-kicking female role model. And oh, god, even with cheesy 90s effects and the ridiculously convoluted mytharc and the inevitable downward spiral, I still love it to bits.

x-files