Torchwood: Miracle Day

[mandybling]

You know when you were poor and used to get the cheap watered down "Kool-aid" mix, the ghetto Velveeta, the powdered milk, the peanut butter in the generic brown squeeze tube (actually strike the peanut butter. That shit was salty and damn tasty.) from the government. It was watered down, bland and not all that good but it got you through? Well, that's what Torchwood: Miracle Day was to me. It was watered down, it was bland and it was not what it was supposed to be. Yeah, the budget was obviously bigger because Starz took it on and it shows. And yeah, they got big names. But at what cost? It's essence is gone. The characters are washed out shells of themselves. Jack's camp is even gone. That's one of the main draws, the camp! And I get the strange niggling that it was dumbed down for us Americans. Not just a niggling, it's a full on poking with a giant stick. I get what they're trying to do. And Russell T Davies will get his big fat check. But dammit Barrowman, and Myles for that matter. WTF! The supporting characters are bland as milk toast too! Save for Mekhi Phifer. I do love him in pretty much whatever he does.

In a nut shell, too damn Americanized. Am I being pretentious? Probably. But, Christ-y! "Fifty crooples for sandals? Christ-y!"

I did get some schwag though. And had a lovely date with the husband. And it was a private screening so I can at least be all pompous and say, "Oooh, yes well, I went to a private screening". So all in all not so bad. Just a touch disappointing.



Surprise Mandy wif' phone pic




This is the picture we sent one of our friends to make him jealous. We just look Derpy.


I gots a schwag bag so all was not lost.



And will someone please leave the "BARROWMAN" gif. I don't feel like hunting for it.