Hello? Is anyone there? NO!

[lonelybrit]

*drums fingers on table*

Feeling mildly nervous and also thinking that my decision to back away from spoilers is probably a good thing. There's a faint word on the breeze that spoilers have broken for TW eps 4 and 5 that are, to put it mildly, creating a bit of a stir. Not sure if it's as bad as the time Kripe dared to think he could do what he liked with his own show and thought that introducing female characters to the cast would be fun (yes, even I picked up that one and I'm not even in the fandom), but I guess time will tell. ETA: I have a lovely lovely FL who will brave the storms for me. Apparently though some folks are going spectacularly nuts, it is generally mountain-out-of-molehill syndrome. That's fine with me :)

Anyway, I'm going to keep living in my shiny happy bubble of love when it comes to Torchwood. And yes that will mean also waxing on lyrical about a certain character who looks, I think, fabulous in pink :)

So, on that note, this little poll was a harmless way of whiling away three seconds. Just a fun straw poll about how folks see Ianto and his one-liners thus far. (In conclusion: NO! Because the phones aren't working!)

Comments

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

I appear to hvae completely missed the spoilers that are upsetting people. Point a sister in the direction of them pretty please?

[lonelybrit]

I'm afraid I've only seen reactions to the reactions to the spoilers so I haven't got the links myself. Apparently there's a summary over at Television without Pity, and I'd hazard a guess that it will also have been discussed on torch_wood and dear old OG. If you do find anything, let me know if it's really as bad as all that as I'm trying to go spoiler-free and so annoyingly can't check anything out myself!

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

Have now read said spoilers. People are indeed going spectacularly nuts. You can probably hazard that said spoilers concern Jack and Gwen. But you know what having read them I'm not concerned. Not at all. To me what I've read suggests that Meat (episode 4) is the episode in which Gwen finally does what I said I hoped she'd do in my review of last week's episode - wake up and realise what she truly has. Also the fact that the episode is written by Cath Tregenna and that James Marsters didn't have superlatives enough for it in Cardiff is somewhat encouraging!

Also the following episode is the one in which the Janto is meant to be quite central, which is enocuraging.

In short - mountain out of a molehill.

[lonelybrit]

People are indeed going spectacularly nuts.

For some reason that did really make me giggle. I'm almost tempted to go and look at these spoilers just so I can see the poodles frothing at the mouth and trying to eat themselves :)

And thank you for letting me know! I know we're only two eps in, but so far I do really like how team TW are being written, but then again this is TW so I'm always a little wary that anything goes and the finale could turn out to be Jack turns into Janet and marrys Myfanwy with Owen as bridesmaid :)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I've read the spoilers and I think people are overreacting, to be honest. It's very much the same as what had some people up in arms in episode 1.

[lonelybrit]

Thanks for letting me know! Well that's a relief to hear, I'll return to shamelessly objectifying the Torchwood cast then :)

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

I'm carefully avoiding the spoilers too. Odd - before TW started, I couldn't get enough of them. Now that I have my regular dose back, I don't want to spoil it.

[lonelybrit]

I think with me it was that spoilers were the only way I could get my Torchwood fix. After all if I wasn't prepared to look at the shooting pics I would have had to wait over a year before I saw Ianto or Tosh again. But now I want the whole experience, and that means spoiler-free for me, and I only have to wait six days before I can wallow in lovely Cardiff and its resident Dad's Army-esque alien fighting crew :)

[macphista.livejournal.com]

Don't read the spoilers. Other than people overreactign to silly stuff, I'd avise you against them because they basically tell you what happens on the WHOLE EPISODE, LMAO. I read them and was instantly sorry I did. ;___;

[lonelybrit]

Awww! Think of it as taking one for the good of your FL? If I could whip you up a little retcon I would *pats on back*

[macphista.livejournal.com]

Haha, I guess. And I'd take the retcon, but maybe it'd make me forget about the snogs! :(

[lonelybrit]

There're snogs?

Okay, yeah, I return to envying you now ;)

[flatlanddan.livejournal.com]

Avoiding the spoilers like the plague. Seriously, I can't understand the need to wank about something that hasn't even happened yet It's the same reason why I bring myself to write fic set in the current season. Things have only just been brought into play. If we claim to like the show so much, why not wait to see what's they're going before we panic and start witing "fixing things" stories.

*sigh*

Sometimes I just feel old and grumpy.

[lonelybrit]

Likewise, I don't understand it and therefore I choose instead to mock soundly and enjoy watching these fruitcakes eat themselves - n'aww, look at the widdle poodles...

And there is nothing wrong with feeling old and grumpy! If anything it is a revered state on this isle, we even have programmes celebrating the old and grumpy and rejoice in their pearls of wisedom :)

[flatlanddan.livejournal.com]

HEE!! I'll admit to missing most of the wank since the few times I've been on OG I haven't really been that impressed. I'm sure it'll hit torch_wood fairly soon though, a thousand times brighter then after the first episode. It's times that like when I take comfort in plodding along on completely unrelated to the big issue fic. Also when I vaguely consider writing Ianto/Gwen just to watch people flail.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

Oh its already on Torch_wood honey - two pages and a 105 comments strong. Most of whom don't actually appear to have actually read the synopsis. We've got bitch fighting between Pretentious Yank and a BNF Author and all sorts - its alll goood!

Basically there is someone on Television Without Pity who seems to be getting the episodes early and writing up the plot details with a heavy degree of editorialising at the same time. People read, people go loco.

I read and bearing in mind my preferred pairing of choice go "hmmmm - that sounds like promising character development" and that was about the sum of my reaction to it.

I've read a very nice Ianto and Gwen friendship fic but am not sure I could cope with Ianto/Gwen it does have to be said!

[lonelybrit]

105 comments?! Crikey, it really is getting some knickers in a twist.

I have just found a lovely Ianto/Gwen friendship fic with hints of Ianto/Gwen/Jack - I found it worked a treat, left me all mellow and the bubble of love as strong as ever :)

[lonelybrit]

Bizarrely my reaction to this report of distant flailing is to suddenly spy a distant Rhys/Ianto/Jack/Gwen bunny twitching its ears on the horizon. Make smut not war and all that. God bless fandom :)

[xxeleanorxx.livejournal.com]

heeey!

it's been ages without speaking to you!

hope you're doing alright

xx

[lonelybrit]

Buenos dias!

Likewise - hope all's well :)

[xxeleanorxx.livejournal.com]

everything's alright over here, getting finally back to LJ during my holidays... lol.

you? what've you been up to lately love?

[rivier.livejournal.com]

I've read snippets of what the spoilers are, enough to grok the fap, and it's all horseshit. I swear, I don't understand hwo half the fandom ('my' half, forsooth!) is getting what every other slash fan dreams of for their OTP all their lives, handed to us on a salver - and people are working their tits into a merry old froth insisting that day is night and the evidence of their own eys is meaningless against some vague uncorroborated spin repeated umpteenth hand.

Hmmm, people are so silly - and I must stop joining in and being one of them over there, it's getting in the way of my Five Things fic...

Also: Ianto far too pretty this season for anything else to matter in the slightest.

[lonelybrit]

Honest to god, when S1 ended, I thought the most I could hope for was some kind of nice mutual parting of the ways wherein Jack and Ianto admitted that possibly they had gone about things wrong earlier, and no hard feelings, they'll remain fond yadda yadda yadda, but water under the bridge and all that.

And then I got the office scene. Frankly the show has so many brownie points it can spend before I'll ever be that pissed off at it :)

Oh, and utterly agree. We have the office scene and Ianto in that pink shirt in that silk-lined suit, with that level of dead-pan humour. Plot might be a bit of a moot point with me right now...