Post by MS on Feb 25, 2013 20:42:40 GMT -5
Long Time Dead is an original novel by Sarah Pinborough.
Released in August 2011 it is a prequel to Miracle Day and featuring Suzie.
Along with Suzie, members of the original TV series team except Gwen appear here via flashbacks prior to Gwen joining Torchwood in the series’ first episode Everything Changes. Although he has no involvement with the main plot of the novel, Jack makes a cameo at the end of it. The timing of Jack’s cameo seems to be before the coda of Children of Earth when he said goodbye to Gwen and Rhys and then leaving Earth to gather his thoughts.
Another familiar character that appears in the main plot is Gwen’s former police colleague Andy who has been promoted from PC to Sergeant (a promotion that is consistent with him holding his new rank in Miracle Day) a promotion that Andy suspects had more to do with him witnessing key events during Children of Earth rather than his merits as a police officer. Basically the promotion was a bribe to him to keep things hushed up.
For Long Time Dead it takes place in the immediate aftermath of the main portions of Children of Earth and as I said before prior to its coda and the last time we saw Suzie in the TV series she was placed in a draw in the Torchwood morgue in They Keep Killing Suzie. However despite the destruction of the Hub in Children of Earth her body still survived and is able to come back to life due to an unfortunate workman who found her whilst inspecting the rubble of the Hub. With her former Torchwood colleagues either dead or scattered around, Suzie’s resurrection could not have been prevented.
The other main character of Long Time Dead is new character DCI Tom Cutler whose investigation on Torchwood ultimately, perhaps predictably to a romance with Suzie.
Sarah Pinborough did very well in presenting Suzie in a post-Children of Earth environment and even though it is not a TV episode with Indira Varma playing her it was good for the portrayal of Suzie without the presence of her former Torchwood colleagues as it gave us a chance to really know what Suzie is like on her own as a character.
It was especially very good how Sarah Pinborough’s recreates Suzie’s disdain for Gwen here. It had me believing that I was actually hearing Indira Varma as Suzie expressing this disdain in this novel.
Sarah Pinborough writes an extremely good novel in Long Time Dead in what has effectively been a character study of Suzie and Sarah Pinborough seems to have gotten permission for this novel to be Suzie’s final end.
Despite Torchwood creator Russell T Davies stating that Torchwood has not been officially cancelled and that there will be a fifth season, there is still a difference between promises made and promises delivered and all we got was the former but not an exact guarantee of the latter and that could be a long time (no pun intended) coming.
With that in mind it might as well that someone, in this case Sarah Pinborough, delivered a truly farewell story for Suzie released before the broadcast of Miracle Day but no apparently no prospect that she was ever going to make a TV return, it was certainly a long time (pun intended) in achieving at that.
Released in August 2011 it is a prequel to Miracle Day and featuring Suzie.
Along with Suzie, members of the original TV series team except Gwen appear here via flashbacks prior to Gwen joining Torchwood in the series’ first episode Everything Changes. Although he has no involvement with the main plot of the novel, Jack makes a cameo at the end of it. The timing of Jack’s cameo seems to be before the coda of Children of Earth when he said goodbye to Gwen and Rhys and then leaving Earth to gather his thoughts.
Another familiar character that appears in the main plot is Gwen’s former police colleague Andy who has been promoted from PC to Sergeant (a promotion that is consistent with him holding his new rank in Miracle Day) a promotion that Andy suspects had more to do with him witnessing key events during Children of Earth rather than his merits as a police officer. Basically the promotion was a bribe to him to keep things hushed up.
For Long Time Dead it takes place in the immediate aftermath of the main portions of Children of Earth and as I said before prior to its coda and the last time we saw Suzie in the TV series she was placed in a draw in the Torchwood morgue in They Keep Killing Suzie. However despite the destruction of the Hub in Children of Earth her body still survived and is able to come back to life due to an unfortunate workman who found her whilst inspecting the rubble of the Hub. With her former Torchwood colleagues either dead or scattered around, Suzie’s resurrection could not have been prevented.
The other main character of Long Time Dead is new character DCI Tom Cutler whose investigation on Torchwood ultimately, perhaps predictably to a romance with Suzie.
Sarah Pinborough did very well in presenting Suzie in a post-Children of Earth environment and even though it is not a TV episode with Indira Varma playing her it was good for the portrayal of Suzie without the presence of her former Torchwood colleagues as it gave us a chance to really know what Suzie is like on her own as a character.
It was especially very good how Sarah Pinborough’s recreates Suzie’s disdain for Gwen here. It had me believing that I was actually hearing Indira Varma as Suzie expressing this disdain in this novel.
Sarah Pinborough writes an extremely good novel in Long Time Dead in what has effectively been a character study of Suzie and Sarah Pinborough seems to have gotten permission for this novel to be Suzie’s final end.
Despite Torchwood creator Russell T Davies stating that Torchwood has not been officially cancelled and that there will be a fifth season, there is still a difference between promises made and promises delivered and all we got was the former but not an exact guarantee of the latter and that could be a long time (no pun intended) coming.
With that in mind it might as well that someone, in this case Sarah Pinborough, delivered a truly farewell story for Suzie released before the broadcast of Miracle Day but no apparently no prospect that she was ever going to make a TV return, it was certainly a long time (pun intended) in achieving at that.