The "little strop" comment - I think you make a legitimate point there, and that wasn't my intention, because as you say, Lydia was well within her rights to be annoyed at Gerald for his Edwardian-era sexism. I suppose I was trying to suggest that he was maybe overreacting a bit to her annoyance; it's not as if she's going to hold it against him longterm because they're friends and she's used to him by now.
I brought it up since it was written from Lydia's perspective. Just something to think about.
I don't think Jimmy would be happy at all if he found out about the prisoners; he took Gerald's vague non-explanation a bit too trustingly, I thought, but no, I think he'd have something to say to Jack if he ever did find out. And yes, Gerald does have nasty thoughts sometimes, doesn't he? I think I wanted to suggest that you don't work for the sort of organisation he works for, doing the job he does, without it rubbing off on you a bit. At least he is vaguely aware that some of the things he does are wrong; I think Torchwood probably has some real monsters working for it overall.
Are you going to write a follow-up with Jimmy finding out?
That's a beef I have about Jack, is that he just does these nasty, questionable things and doesn't think twice about it. I really hate that side of him. I was happy we got a 'We're going to save the alien and send it home!' moment in "Meat" (but how much of that was posturing because Rhys was there?) and I'm a bit ticked off that Jack didn't think twice about wanting Rhys RetConned. I would have liked it a lot better if Jack had decided on his own against using the drug, rather than because of Gwen's haranguing and 'Then RetCon me too because I'll quit if you do!'
Isn't Jack a 51st century kind of guy? So let's see it reflected in his thinking, his feelings about aliens and not just be all aliens are evil, evil, EVIL! Yet another area TW falls down, for me. *sigh*
The "of an evening thing" is just me lapsing into my native dialect, I think! :) Horrible turn of phrase, and I don't think the kind of thing an expensively-educated chap like Gerald would say...
So whereabouts are you from in the U.K., if you don't mind me asking?
I don't know what the last chapter achieves other than that I didn't want to just end it on Gerald blowing some poor guy's brains out, there were still some loose plot points to be explained away, and I just wanted some more Gerald/Harriet, if I'm honest.
Still, thanks for reading and feeding back, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Drive home how TW can warp you? Another solution they could have used was to cryogenically freeze them from 1908 and then thaw them out after WWI ended and send them home. That's what happened with Jack, after he was dug up in "Exit Wounds". Unfortunately, I do think it's in character that they would have just killed the prisoners.
Re: Chapters 17 and 18
I brought it up since it was written from Lydia's perspective. Just something to think about.
I don't think Jimmy would be happy at all if he found out about the prisoners; he took Gerald's vague non-explanation a bit too trustingly, I thought, but no, I think he'd have something to say to Jack if he ever did find out. And yes, Gerald does have nasty thoughts sometimes, doesn't he? I think I wanted to suggest that you don't work for the sort of organisation he works for, doing the job he does, without it rubbing off on you a bit. At least he is vaguely aware that some of the things he does are wrong; I think Torchwood probably has some real monsters working for it overall.
Are you going to write a follow-up with Jimmy finding out?
That's a beef I have about Jack, is that he just does these nasty, questionable things and doesn't think twice about it. I really hate that side of him. I was happy we got a 'We're going to save the alien and send it home!' moment in "Meat" (but how much of that was posturing because Rhys was there?) and I'm a bit ticked off that Jack didn't think twice about wanting Rhys RetConned. I would have liked it a lot better if Jack had decided on his own against using the drug, rather than because of Gwen's haranguing and 'Then RetCon me too because I'll quit if you do!'
Isn't Jack a 51st century kind of guy? So let's see it reflected in his thinking, his feelings about aliens and not just be all aliens are evil, evil, EVIL! Yet another area TW falls down, for me. *sigh*
The "of an evening thing" is just me lapsing into my native dialect, I think! :) Horrible turn of phrase, and I don't think the kind of thing an expensively-educated chap like Gerald would say...
So whereabouts are you from in the U.K., if you don't mind me asking?
I don't know what the last chapter achieves other than that I didn't want to just end it on Gerald blowing some poor guy's brains out, there were still some loose plot points to be explained away, and I just wanted some more Gerald/Harriet, if I'm honest.
Still, thanks for reading and feeding back, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Drive home how TW can warp you? Another solution they could have used was to cryogenically freeze them from 1908 and then thaw them out after WWI ended and send them home. That's what happened with Jack, after he was dug up in "Exit Wounds". Unfortunately, I do think it's in character that they would have just killed the prisoners.