The Doctor in his TARDIS
This was going to be a rant on the latest interview from John Fay, one of the writers for the new series of Torchwood. In his interview, Fay went on again about how no one is safe in the world of Torchwood, anyone can and will die. This week's sad events in Japan and Libya put his words into perspective, and made this interview even sillier and
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I'm starting to find the whole thing funny, like a Monty Python sketch with "death" substituted for "spam". Same thing, really. I can predict already the shocks will be people who should have died from horrific injuries remaining alive and screaming, elderly patients going on and on, and so on. And then there's the mad dashing between continents to solve this puzzle, which won't be complete without the black ops helicopters and lots of talking on mobile phones.
I would welcome a story about immortality if it was treated in the same way as a Twilight Zone story, in other words, if it was logical, or lyrical, and it meant something afterwards. But that's not what I think we're getting here - we're getting what the ancient Romans got: bread and circuses with the perquisite gore. And maybe I shouldn't judge before seeing it, but after reading Fay's remarks and Rusty's, it's pretty obvious this is just the same old, same old in another country with new faces and accents.
And that is, in a nutshell, why I'm so looking forward to the next series of DW where there will be actual stories that mean something, and while people will die, they won't be dying to provide ratings boosts.
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I saw the photo of Gwen with the rocket launcher again. I still have no idea if that's some fan's joke, mocking Rusty's propensity for handing women very large....weapons. If it's for real, it's 20 times as funny, because, yet again, Rusty's handing a woman a very large....weapon. Not to mention that Gwen appears to be pointing it at her team.
Which might be the biggest plot spoiler of all.
:D
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Gwen and a rocket launcher. Thatt reminds me of the infamous photo of Dan Quayle holding the rocket launcher the wrong way that I once had hanging on my cubicle wall.
LOL to the biggest plot spoiler of all!
Rusty and Very Large Weapons ... 'nuff said.
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Good luck to them with that....In the meantime: countdown to DW6 has begun.
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Apart from that, from the publicity photos and videos, I don't think anyone who's expecting loads of lulz will be disappointed.
Better to watch DW, where the LOLS are part of the plot, not the plot itself. That goes into another reason why I love the show - it can terrify me and make me laugh at the same time. As far as I'm concerned, that's perfect entertainment, right there.
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I've never been so happy to be so wrong!
DW5 showed me that any doubts I had were totally unwarranted. Every glimpse of DW6 promises even more than what DW5 delivered. The show is in the hands of a master storyteller now, and, as for Smith....Wow. I'm stunned that it's possible for anyone to have that much talent.
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