Torchwood-day

Today is Thursday, which is named after the Norse God Thor. Why that is I don't know, but I thought you should. In mainland China they just name the days of the week after numbers, are they more logical or are we more imaginative?

I put this forward as an example of a question without a yes/no, wrong/right answer, because recently I was reading James Morans blog, 'The pen is mightier than the spork'. He's a writer who's stuff you might have noticed, Dr Who, Spooks, Torchwood, Severance, etc. and it seems that some so-called 'fans' have been giving him a hard time because he wrote a large part of Torchwood:Children of Earth and they didn't like some of the decisions made, such as killing off Ianto.

Now as it happens I thought this series of Torchwood has fulfilled the promise that the first two offered but only delivered in parts. It was brilliant, in my humble opinion, even though I'm not sure I agreed with all the plot decisions. Its basic idea could only be done in a Sci-Fi show, an alien race offers you a choice of complete obliteration of your species or 10% of your children, what do you do?

Obviously you can do it in things like Sophie's Choice, but not on such a scale. I felt there were flaws in the story logic, such as 'if the aliens needed the children so badly, would they really wipe them all out with humanity?' and 'why didn't they just kidnap them?' but who cares, it worked for the story.

I'll tell you who cares, these idiotic fans care. They care so much that they unleashed a stream of vitriolic abuse on a writer who only did his job. Here's a question for them, if they care so much why don't they go write a perfect script for themselves?

Because they are morons.

You don't like someone's idea? Fine, don't watch/read/listen to it. I remember a comment from a Dr Who fan that Russell T Davies' version wasn't as good as 'old Dr Who', he'd somehow squandered an opportuity.

He completely missed the point that without RTD there wouldn't have been ANY new Dr Who! Nothing! Just a repeat of the old series ad nauseum.

It's these fans who are really ruining the programme, because of them no one will want to go anywhere near it & it will die a lonely, painful death.

In short, get a life!

James Moran, if you're reading this (unlikely) remember the last line from one of my favourite films, 'Jagged Edge', as spoken by Robert Loggia: "F*** 'em, they was trash!"
Word!