Torchwood Turn Left

[techmuse.livejournal.com]

Just started reading these...found this off of Torchwoodcoffee community.  Not strictly Gwen bashing but not flattering to the character.   Check them out and leave some love for the authors

Title: Turn Left, Torchwood
Author: The Turn Left, Torchwood Project
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A Building Challenge, where each episode is rewritten with minor (or major) changes and future episodes must include this new reality. Each episode is written and submitted anonymously and are posted on a bi-weekly basis. The first six episodes are now posted.

Series One
Episode One: Everything Changes
Episode Two: Day One
Episode Three: Ghost Machine
Episode Four: Cyberwoman
Episode Five: Small Worlds
Episode Six: Countrycide

Learn more about Turn Left, Torchwood here

Comments

Slight spoiler maybe

[slns7552.livejournal.com]

They're ok but some of them seem to show Gwen in a positive light. Fortunately she was barely in Countrycide but some of them have a lot of her.

I think the writing could have been tighter

[hohaiyee.livejournal.com]

I like the lighter and fluffier spirit, and their conclusion to Small Worlds made way more sense, but I stopped reading earlier due to stuff like, the Standard Pairing Practice of Owen/Tosh.

With Owen and Tosh, I can both see the Why, AND the Why Not. It's canon that Tosh falls in love serially, but most of all, with Owen who has been there the longest. It is canon that Owen does have a tender side, and I think Tosh is very dear to him. It's also canon that Owen has stated that Tosh is not his type, and I think within the whole series, that makes sense. Both Tosh and Ianto are people who Give All, and I think Owen finds that scary.

Likewise, I think their Janto is missing a lot of nuances.

Re: I think the writing could have been tighter

[hohaiyee.livejournal.com]

...like, look at Owen's type, Suzie, Gwen, and Diane, who all have their own things, and is therefore very different from Tosh, who I don't think is the type to just walk away easy like that.

Of course, the break in the pattern could be Owen's fiancee, we really don't have much of her since when she was shown, she was losing memories already, but hey, she was the marrying type, it's possible that Tosh is like Kate, a type that Owen abandons after Kate's death, turning to women like Suzie and Gwen and Diane, but if so, it needs to be shown! It needs to be addressed why Owen is opening himself to that again.

[iceshade.livejournal.com]

I've been reading these since right before 'small worlds' came out, but I just have to add, you're explaining the premise a little wrong. the whole point of this is to make one change to the episode, (such as in 'turn left' donna turned right instead of left--which is what this while thing is based on) and see what kind of ripple effect that change has on the rest of the episode, (and yes, then future episodes must build on this reality)

and for the record, I am personally in love with the way 'small worlds' was handled, and the change they made, and I very much recommend this whole thing (thank you for posting)