people who are on the fence about the show might want to wash their hair or something when the 4th episode airs.
The end of that episode is what made me want to quit the show for good, though I did watch one more episode afterward.
Just a wee smidge of not-taking-ourselves-TOO-seriously would have gone down a treat. (I was surprised, as it's one of the things I love best about Dr Who is the ability to put forth a serious subject in a not-humourless manner.)
Totally, fialka. I was expecting something much more...different.
It's...I think what I love about
Torchwood
is that it IS fanfic. It is trashy, shaggadelic, silly, overblown, angsty fanfic. SET IN WALES!!!!!!
It cannot fare well if I compare it to something like
Firefly,
which, you know, I fucking love with the big burny hot love of a thousand exploding suns. But...it's Sci Fi.
Set in the UK!!!
Where people have normal accents
and aren't the villain of the week!!!!
(Or a Watcher. Or possibly both.)
I do understand people not loving the show, because it's flawed, and finding its feet, and in style/approach it's quite jarringly not like the shiny slick US scifi to which it aspires (UK telly tends to err too much towards the theatrical tradition, whereas US telly tends to be more influenced by cinema, and hence does realism better, much of the time).
But - you have to understand that this is the first new Sci Fi I can remember since
Blake's 7
was cancelled, back in the 70s (or possibly the early 80s? I was very wee, anyway. And sad. Very sad that my big gay show was ending in a tragic pile of corpses and treachery and heartbreak...it was an early grooming for Tim and Joss and the wickedness of Fox execs, now I come to think of it).
Anyhoo, yes -
Torchwood
is silly like a silly thing, which puts it nicely in the tradition of UK genre shows - take a bow,
Avengers, Blake's 7, Doctor Who
et al. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
SET IN WALES!!!!!!
This. Except my Welsh great-great-grandparents were from Anglesey, at the other end of Wales.
Sumi is me. I didn't see it one episode at a time, which sometimes makes a difference with me. I love it. Lots.
And Yay for the new Eureka tonight. Loving it lots too.
I'm last up tonight but I'm on Puerto Rico time so odds are I won't be up to chat.
I'm a bit bummed. It seems the season has past and I haven't seen the final product of many episodes.
What is tonight? Maneater?
C.
The preview looked like it had to do with religion sweeping Eureka due to "miracles".
Tonight's title is
"God Is In The Details".
We think there's another 4 episodes, including tonight's, right?
:: bounces in
Eureka
anticipation ::
I thought
Torchwood
took a couple of episodes to hit its stride, especially as we get into what makes Owen and Tosh and Ianto tick -- there's not a single undamaged one among 'em. I think I like it better than Who for the same reasons I liked Angel better than Buffy.
