Torchwood
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I have been watching it lately, and it is absolutely brilliant. If you didn't know it is a spin off of Doctor Who, (Torchwood is an anagram). In an odd sense it is more believable than Dr Who as most of the characters are not immortal or integral to the plot (such as the assistant).
Torchwood is a secret organisation that investigates alien activity ad was set up by Queen Victoria.
I find the plots more exciting and more interesting than Dr Who as people are more likely to die than people in a family programme.
Here is the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/
Torchwood is a secret organisation that investigates alien activity ad was set up by Queen Victoria.
I find the plots more exciting and more interesting than Dr Who as people are more likely to die than people in a family programme.
Here is the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/
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The adverts tease with promises of a "grown up" Doctor Who but it seems like a childrens' programme. "Oh my, we're approaching sex in Doctor Who. Keep watching for five more minutes and one of the characters will make a swear." The show sports characters possessing the most unbelievable behaviour patterns and males that cry at the drop of a hat. EMOTION ON DEMAND, courtesy of the Russell T Davies School of Writing. Oh, and how'sabout that startling lack of rational thought for a sci-fi series set in a government agency with a scientist in every corner in lieu of a potted plant? Why doesn't Cyberwoman grab a Fancy Gun™ and blow the everloving fuck out of every cunt who stands in her way? Oh yes, sorry. The munitions cupboard can't be accessed. Great contingency plan.
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Being aware that I'm in the minority, as ever, I'll stop the whining right there. However, Torchwood has made me curious as to whether Russell T Davies has... daddy issues. Men are bastards: They're all paedophiles and all stepdads are child-beaters. If memory serves, all the fathers in Queer as Folk were utter cunts, too. I know that he's stated in interviews that he thinks of himself as a "big child".
I really like what we've seen so far and the episodes seem to be getting better as we go on.
I think in the latest episode [spoiler:be4b9de1a1]they shouldn't have actually shown the faries in full. I think they were rather cheezy, I much prefered the brief glimpses we got of them atmosphere wise. [/spoiler:be4b9de1a1]
It has potential, but it's pretty hamfisted at the moment.
Colour me dissapointed. :-(
Also, the main actor needs to fix that gap between her front teeth, its fricking ridicolous looking.
I loved the Cybermen in Doctor Who. They were scary, they were unstoppable. They were awesome.
The Cyberwoman episode left me thoroughly disappointed. The Cyberwoman was nothing like the Cyberman, and that crying guy who loved her was just annoying and pointless.
Well it's not like we'd be able to understand it. I don't know anyone who speaks Britishese. I hope they come out with some good fan-subs on this.
Maybe someone else has an idea of what i'm talking about.
Ah well at least it aint as bad as the new Robin Hood series.
EDIT: realised i contradicted myself there. fixed.
THE DALEKS ARE SUPERIOR!
Sorry, could not resist.
I express dissapointment at Torchwood and I haven't seen a single episode yet.
I too prefer David Tennant as the Doctor rather than Christopher Eccleston.
The thing about The Impossible Planet, and Doctor Who in general, is that it doesn't aim to be horror-movie scary. It aims to be entertaining, and when it has to do something scary, it does entertaining-scary. The Impossible Planet was entertaining.
That said, it did fall in the old stereotype of ancient-civilisation-imprisons-horrible-evil-when-they-could-just-kill-it. Why did they let that thing chained up on a planet with a sofisticated system to keep it from falling into a black hole unless it escaped? Why not just let it fall in the black hole and be done with it?
If I ever defeat and imprison an ancient and powerful evil, you can be sure I won't leave it lieing around. I'll destroy it.
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Honestly, I can't wait. Also, really looking forward to seeing what James Marsters' character is like.
Also:
James Marsters is bitchin.
But it will be amazing!
Really, the whole thing was dreadful last time, I doubt it'll get any better.
Basically, it's not "an adult Doctor Who." First, it's an ensemble cast in a fixed location and Doctor Who is about two people going places other than Wales. It happens to be vaguely associated with Doctor Who, that's all.
Second, it's not adult. Adult shows deal with adult issues. Examples? Battlestar Galactica, obviously. Hell, Firefly too. Even the various Star Treks were more adult that Torchwood, dealing with racism and real life issues. Torchwood's version of "adult" is basically everyone's bisexual, all the main cast hit on each other constantly, they have lots of sex, swear a lot, and people die kind of graphically.
On top of that, the stories are boring, the characters are boring and stupid, the dialogue is boring and rubbish. I can't see how anyone can like it.
Having said that, I probably will watch it
Still, my TV keeps losing my damn digital channels so I couldn't watch this even if I did hate myself.
I have hopes for this new season.
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Seemed like more of the same really. The whole 'adult' thing still feels forced and overdone. The characters 2D and the plot poorly paced and delivered.
It's annoying as the concept is workable (at the end of the day its a UK X-Files with a bigger team - given some of the paranormal you could generate in the UK it should be easy to execute) but it's hurting for someone to go in and just realize that people are (trying) to watch it for said sci-fi aspects. Not badly executed slash fiction (is it slash fiction when the writers of the show do it?).
And yes, maybe like the first series they'll get it out their systems and start shaping up in the last for episodes to something approaching 'worth watching' Seems a waste of tape to have to film the first half of the series though.
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Y'know what? I'm willing to give him another shot. Remember that the first season of The Fast Show was shit. I'm sure people were saying "It won't get any better" when the second season started, but that's when the show really came into its own. The same can be said of Men Behaving Badly, and Blackadder, and Hustle. I'm just saying don't knock a show down simply because the first season was shit. Give it another chance, chaps.
I thought it was pretty good, save the first five minutes.
although Gwen asking, calm as can be, "have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car" made me literally laugh out loud.
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Question for the brits, because I'm honestly curious: how was Marster's accent?
Marster's accent sounded pretty much the same as when he played Spike to me.
On the plus side, they aren't effing and blinding all over the place in that painfully forced way. And Marster's double entendres were pretty funny. But yeah, basically high-budget slashfic. Quite fun though.
There should be a drinking game based on the number of times someone snogs someone for no good reason other than blatant fan service. You'd be paralytic within half an hour.
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James Marsters was great, and at least he shows up later on too, so something to look forward to.
Something was just off with the show..
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