In article
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"susan Fraazer" <susanfraazer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <g1DIj.11432$p97.2037@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > ok, we've got scary Carnival folks. Not such a stretch, we all
think
> >the carnival folks are a little scary to start with. Too different.
> >
> > What we have...
> >
> > Jack as a carnie, Jack as an undercover investigator in the
carnival,
> >and magic carnival music that we can hear all over the city.
> >
> > Not much attempt to explain these away as aliens, but then Torchwood
> >doesn't find that as im****tant to do.
> >
> > The Bad:
> > no breath but a heartbeat?
> > the all too expected showing that the Night Travelers are still
around
>
> It seems like there was so much potential with creepy carny folk as
villains,
> but they wound up
> being pretty pointless.
>
> Here's another idea with lots of potential which ended up being pretty
> pointless - the breaths in
> the flask. The trapped breaths are supposed to make up the "audience"
for the
> travelling show,
> but did we ever see this happen? Did the Night Travellers ever perform
for
> the breaths? Did they
> gain strength from them? Did they need them in order to survive?
That's one of the things that was so bad about this episode. I have no
idea why they wanted or needed their victims, or why the victims bodies
survived (did they age? were they immortal??), or why the victims died
instantly when the breath was released (were they too far away?
wouldn't it have been worse if the victims had NOT died and both their
bodies and breaths were trapped forever?) or why ANYTHING happened.
>
> The reason I think this idea has potential is that performers really do
gain
> energy from their
> audiences (just not, by and large, in an evil, non-reciprocal way). It
would
> have been nice if
> the Night Travellers had been just desperate for this energy, getting an
> audience any way they
> could.
>
> (I can see it now: the Ghostmaker, having adapted his vaudeville skills
to
> stand-up comedy, is
> basking in applause. "Oh, you've been such a wonderful audience. I wish
I
> could bottle you up and
> take you home. Oh wait - I can." Or, you know, something less cliche'd.
The
> point is that I think
> the villains would not have seemed so pointless had they acted with more
of a
> driving purpose.)
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