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Torchwood audiodramas: The Last Beacon & Dinner and a Show
Petition for Gareth David-Lloyd to write all Torchwood episodes forever.
Big Finish has audiodramas - basically radio plays, performed by the actors - for a number of BBC shows. I knew they did Doctor Who because I'd seen people talking about it, so it stood to reason they had Torchwood. Come to find out, Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto's actor) writes some of the Torchwood ones, and they are AMAZING. It is very clear that GDL's ideal Torchwood episode is, basically, Ianto hanging out and bantering with his teammates. Besides the fact that they're really funny, GDL's audiodrama episodes are also incredibly sweet; he does the relationship stuff very well too (and clearly headcanons Owen and Ianto as friends, and is going to make it happen, damn it).
The Last Beacon - Ianto and Owen pretend to be geocachers while searching for an alien artifact in rural Wales. All that "Danny and Ward road trip" fic I write ... that is THE EXACT VIBE of this. They bicker, get in bar fights, get rained on, fall off mountains, discover that there is Only One Hotel Room, etc. And there's some genuinely very good relationship development in the middle of it all.
Dinner and a Show - Tosh and Ianto end up at an alien-infested opera on Valentine's Day. This one is sadder and more wistful and darker than the above, but also very sweet and funny, and clearly in continuity with the above, since Ianto kind of gets Owen now, and that carries through into both a) trying to explain Owen to Tosh (which is funny and adorable and kind of sad), and b) getting closer to Tosh, too. (Also, Tosh stabs a guy in the face with her high-heeled shoe, then pulls out the shoe so she can stab more guys with it. I just needed to mention that.)
I just really, really loved these. They were as much fun as the best episodes of the actual show. I always loved the show best when it was less with the depressing and nonsensical plot twists, and more with the team just being a bunch of semi-competent idiots who loved each other, and that is entirely what these are (well, okay, Dinner and a Show is pretty depressing in places, but there's also a very warm vibe of the characters picking each other up afterwards).
I hope he does an Ianto & Gwen episode next. Or a full team one - that would be amazing. (Or just more, generally. I would shove fistfuls of money at Big Finish to give me another Ianto & Owen one.) I will be checking out the other ones, but from the descriptions I don't know if I'll love them as much as I loved these, because the friendship and banter was the real draw for me, and most of the others are solo adventures for various characters, or set during the time period when most of them are DEAD. It does look like there are a couple of team ones, though. And hearing their voices again is so nice.
ETA: Over on Tumblr, some musing on the character arcs in GDL's audiodramas.
Big Finish has audiodramas - basically radio plays, performed by the actors - for a number of BBC shows. I knew they did Doctor Who because I'd seen people talking about it, so it stood to reason they had Torchwood. Come to find out, Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto's actor) writes some of the Torchwood ones, and they are AMAZING. It is very clear that GDL's ideal Torchwood episode is, basically, Ianto hanging out and bantering with his teammates. Besides the fact that they're really funny, GDL's audiodrama episodes are also incredibly sweet; he does the relationship stuff very well too (and clearly headcanons Owen and Ianto as friends, and is going to make it happen, damn it).
The Last Beacon - Ianto and Owen pretend to be geocachers while searching for an alien artifact in rural Wales. All that "Danny and Ward road trip" fic I write ... that is THE EXACT VIBE of this. They bicker, get in bar fights, get rained on, fall off mountains, discover that there is Only One Hotel Room, etc. And there's some genuinely very good relationship development in the middle of it all.
Dinner and a Show - Tosh and Ianto end up at an alien-infested opera on Valentine's Day. This one is sadder and more wistful and darker than the above, but also very sweet and funny, and clearly in continuity with the above, since Ianto kind of gets Owen now, and that carries through into both a) trying to explain Owen to Tosh (which is funny and adorable and kind of sad), and b) getting closer to Tosh, too. (Also, Tosh stabs a guy in the face with her high-heeled shoe, then pulls out the shoe so she can stab more guys with it. I just needed to mention that.)
I just really, really loved these. They were as much fun as the best episodes of the actual show. I always loved the show best when it was less with the depressing and nonsensical plot twists, and more with the team just being a bunch of semi-competent idiots who loved each other, and that is entirely what these are (well, okay, Dinner and a Show is pretty depressing in places, but there's also a very warm vibe of the characters picking each other up afterwards).
I hope he does an Ianto & Gwen episode next. Or a full team one - that would be amazing. (Or just more, generally. I would shove fistfuls of money at Big Finish to give me another Ianto & Owen one.) I will be checking out the other ones, but from the descriptions I don't know if I'll love them as much as I loved these, because the friendship and banter was the real draw for me, and most of the others are solo adventures for various characters, or set during the time period when most of them are DEAD. It does look like there are a couple of team ones, though. And hearing their voices again is so nice.
ETA: Over on Tumblr, some musing on the character arcs in GDL's audiodramas.
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That is excellent!
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I am highly amused by this whole idea. I sometimes go geocaching and know how frustrating it can be so trying to find this alien artifact is probably a very similar experience. Dammit, your posts are making me want to re-watch Torchwood!
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I did not expect to get this into it on the rewatch, but apparently that's what's happening. XD
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