Sex in Torchwood: Day One

[crabby_lioness]

The first thing I noticed was that for all its graphic sex the episode was less erotic than the mild flirtation in Boom Town.
There the interaction between the three characters had all been about giving energy to someone the person cared about. Here it was all selfish, all about taking energy and giving nothing back. The result was that I as the

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[cyberducks]

I had to laugh at some message board comments that the sex scenes were cheap and titilating - well, they got it half right: they were cheap, but I found nothing erotic or titilating about them - it seemed pretty clear to me at least that they were filmed to look as tawdry as possible. As you say, only the kisses didn't make me cringe, because there was emotion and caring in them.

[atraphoenix]

Likewise XD

[timbershiver]

LOL, I didn't realise it until you just (very eloquently) spelled it out for me!

Mind, I just watched it tonight and was on the phone to my mum for most of the ep, vaguely attempting to talk her out of emigrating to Barcelona - tomorrow!

I'll have to watch it again, without distractions. I got a bit too excited over Jack's distress at the hand.

[fajrdrako]

Intersting comments on the dynamics and relationships involved. I think part of the problem was that while Carys could feel normal human emotions, the alien hadn't figured out what that was all about; and the more she made Carys do what she wanted her to, the more Carys was in despair and incapable of the kind of seratonin responses that would have given the creature energy. Just imagine all the battling hormones within her.

I'm just as glad they didn't spell it out; exposition would have weakened the story. I liked it that we were shown what was happening, and left to understand it on our own.

[meghatron]

It would have been nice if they show had spelled this out at the end of the episode.

I beg to differ. Good television requires smart viewers, and you clearly caught on without needing it spelled out for you. The last thing I need is to be tripping over anvils in a show I want to be watching. If Torchwood gets stupid I'm gonna have to stop downloading waiting for it be shown stateside.

[romanticizing]

Wow, these are really good points. Especially with the thing about lesbian sex as that had been bothering me. But your explanation makes sense.