Random Musings on Torchwood
Torchwood has been featured as iTunes' TV Show of the Week in honour of Gay Pride Month, so if you're in the States, you can download Everything Changes for free, if you haven't already. Basic premise of the show if you've never seen it before: it's a spinoff of Doctor Who where five bisexuals run around Cardiff catching (usually unfriendly) aliens
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I'm okay with Miracle Day, but that's because I watched series one, two, Children of the Earth, and the beginning of Miracle Day all in a row up to the finale ep, which I had to wait for. It was one of my British Twitter peeps watching it that got me interested in Torchwood and, by extension, Doctor Who because she was watching Torchwood: Miracle Day and encouraged me to watch it. The only ep I can watch over and over again of the series is Immortal Sins. Other than that I have to watch it in order.
I think what happened with Miracle Day was that they tried to make it too big, but then it flopped. There were too many story lines going on which didn't lead anywhere, and things were never fully explained. I also think the series was a bit too long. I think 7 or 8 eps would have worked well. They wouldn't have as much filler as I felt they had.
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In 2007, I couldn't wait for BBCA to start showing Torchwood. I loved Captain Jack in his DW episodes especially since the first two were written by Moffat, one of my favorite television writers. I loved Torchwood so much once it aired that I tracked down the episodes that hadn't been aired on BBCA yet on the internet and watched.
Yes, there was a lot of filler. There was a lot of politics and things that felt like preaching to the choir with me...I have journal entries for almost every episode. They seemed to forget that Jack's into anything not just men, there was a lot that I just didn't think made sense, they made Rex totally unlikable, they killed off Esther for no real reason, there was a lot of people acting like idiots and just...
ugh
Giant vagina in the Earth!
PS: The same idea of people not being able to die was addressed in Being Human in just an episode or two and much better done, I thought.
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There's a trope called the Idiot Ball, where the character carrying the Idiot Ball for the ep is NOT a good thing. It usually means there's decisions made by the characters which they normally wouldn't make, and other stupid things. I think every single character carried the Idiot Ball in every single ep.
Trying to remember which ep of Being Human addressed people not being able to die. Was that 3.03 with the zombie ep? And are we talking about the UK or US version? I adore the UK version, and tried watching the first couple eps of the US version. It...didn't work for me, to the point that I didn't watch it again.
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I still get upset over "Day One" in the first season because it's the second episode and they establish that gas masks are STANDARD ISSUE! Then, COE happened and they all became stupid...
Yes, I am talking about 3.03 and the party girl zombie.
I only tried the first couple of eps for the US one as well although I found out Jay Baruchel played a werewolf this season so I'm going to have to catch that one.
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