Torchwood
Ok, so I've nearly caught up with Torchwood (haven't watched Greeks Bearing Gifts yet, and there will -- presumably -- be another new one tomorrow). Just watched Countrycide. Creepiest, scariest episode of just about anything I have ever watched voluntarily.
Warning: Possible spoilers and/or squickitude/creepitude
Because it is *people* doing it. Regular humans.
No aliens. No tech. No metaphysical manifestations of archtypal whatevers (Small Country was really good, and creepy in its own way, but not this. Not this at all.) This one is the inverse/realization of TELawrence's statement about the dreamers of day being the dangerous ones, making things possible. Taking the nightmare out of the ephemeral and making it real.
Criminal Minds is suspenseful, and the criminals are realistic, but that show has never been as outright creepy as this one, even with people doing much the same actual actions. This show went to a whole different dimension of creep. Gibber. Gleep.
Now I'm going to go off and think hard about Something Else. Or maybe I need to watch something completely different. Scrub my brain. Something. Obviously not going to bed for a while!
On the other hand, Ianto is really growing as a character, and Tosh can really kick a$$. And I understand Gwen's sense of isolation, but I can't quite go to the Owen place. Or at any rate see that lasting. Will have to see how that develops.
And does Ianto ever discover he's alive because of Jack? I noticed that Jack Quite Carefully did not answer the question of who had he kissed last....
Warning: Possible spoilers and/or squickitude/creepitude
Because it is *people* doing it. Regular humans.
No aliens. No tech. No metaphysical manifestations of archtypal whatevers (Small Country was really good, and creepy in its own way, but not this. Not this at all.) This one is the inverse/realization of TELawrence's statement about the dreamers of day being the dangerous ones, making things possible. Taking the nightmare out of the ephemeral and making it real.
Criminal Minds is suspenseful, and the criminals are realistic, but that show has never been as outright creepy as this one, even with people doing much the same actual actions. This show went to a whole different dimension of creep. Gibber. Gleep.
Now I'm going to go off and think hard about Something Else. Or maybe I need to watch something completely different. Scrub my brain. Something. Obviously not going to bed for a while!
On the other hand, Ianto is really growing as a character, and Tosh can really kick a$$. And I understand Gwen's sense of isolation, but I can't quite go to the Owen place. Or at any rate see that lasting. Will have to see how that develops.
And does Ianto ever discover he's alive because of Jack? I noticed that Jack Quite Carefully did not answer the question of who had he kissed last....