I'm still trying to figure out why Moran wanted it to end like it did. Either he truly thinks cops are idiots (and the way he portrayed them in G#9 certainly makes it seem that way) or he just went for pure shock value and sacrificed interesting plot to it...or he didn't realize that he destroyed the last segment by killing off the only actual chemistry and half of the good acting in the show.
I always knew GDL was a better actor than the "Torchwood" plotholes were allowing for. You can tell from his willingness to make his face ugly to express ugly emotions. Not many actors are willing to do that. It's the extra step that puts him way above a lot of the tv actors out there today. (Sorry, but compare him to someone like Thomas Gibson or Kiefer Sutherland, both of whom have had similarly deeply personal negative moments on the small screen. They're both good, competent actors. GDL blows them out of the water in terms of willingness to express emotions believably.) Having only 30 (a little less, actually) minutes to tell the story, losing one of the two good actors with five or so minutes to go is a major problem. Absolom was good, damn good, but without GDL to bounce off of he seemed almost comic.
So my personal canon will be this ending. I might adjust some of the dialogue in my mind, but the story remains the same. Thou hast saved me, Foxy.
Gotta get back to Nano-ing now. (I wrote all this as a warm up. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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Date: 2009-11-07 09:22 pm (UTC)I always knew GDL was a better actor than the "Torchwood" plotholes were allowing for. You can tell from his willingness to make his face ugly to express ugly emotions. Not many actors are willing to do that. It's the extra step that puts him way above a lot of the tv actors out there today. (Sorry, but compare him to someone like Thomas Gibson or Kiefer Sutherland, both of whom have had similarly deeply personal negative moments on the small screen. They're both good, competent actors. GDL blows them out of the water in terms of willingness to express emotions believably.) Having only 30 (a little less, actually) minutes to tell the story, losing one of the two good actors with five or so minutes to go is a major problem. Absolom was good, damn good, but without GDL to bounce off of he seemed almost comic.
So my personal canon will be this ending. I might adjust some of the dialogue in my mind, but the story remains the same. Thou hast saved me, Foxy.
Gotta get back to Nano-ing now. (I wrote all this as a warm up. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)