Torchwood Part Four
Spoilers.
I enjoyed the first two episodes of this loads, despite minor quibbles about characterisation and roles of civil servants. But rather amusing to see my office on telly (aerial views show two mirror buildings on each side of Horseferry Road on Millbank. The left one is indeed Thames House the MI5 building. I work in the other. Or do I...)
Third one I watched this evening. Sillier but most entertaining.
But then the fourth bit. Much less good - it was surely the obvious conclusion for everyone in the planet that if aliens are saying something about 10% of the children in every country, but not what, that this might be both bad and unpreventable, and mass panic would probably ensue. And Frobisher is totally panicky and unconvincing as a PermSec - possibly because he has the crappest and most unconvincing Private Office ever. For starters there's at least four of them, you don't use temps, and OlderSnottyWoman would never give away a password to NewPerkyWoman. And if she did, it wouldn't get you into much. Certainly nothing Top Secret or above. Starting to seriously challenge my suspension of disbelief here! Plus the amazing surveillance that knows everything about Jack and co except that Jack has a daughter and grandson. And then Jack going in all guns blazing, and having his bluff totally called. What was the point in that? Time to get Ianto's kit off... oh no, the beans are done....
One of my pet hates is books which prove they are Serious Litritcha by having someone die about 80% of the way through. It so often smacks of putting a death in to spice up the plot. And this case reeked of it. With an extra hint of not being able to have a couple in a same-sex relationship on telly for more than five minutes.
The Radio Times interviewed John Barrowman for this week's issue and said he sounded pissed off with the series. And weren't allowed to know anything about eps 4 and 5. I'm not surprised he was failing to hide annoyance.
Looks like we're still waiting for a lead TV character to be in an established same-sex relationship. Unless they fixed that zombie-glove or something, but I seriously doubt it.
Bah. The series was going well; it didn't need such a facile attempt to tug my heartstrings. They'd already annoyed the American networks by cutting a 13-part series to 5 hours - why not go the whole hog and have an explicitly couply male fighting duo?
I enjoyed the first two episodes of this loads, despite minor quibbles about characterisation and roles of civil servants. But rather amusing to see my office on telly (aerial views show two mirror buildings on each side of Horseferry Road on Millbank. The left one is indeed Thames House the MI5 building. I work in the other. Or do I...)
Third one I watched this evening. Sillier but most entertaining.
But then the fourth bit. Much less good - it was surely the obvious conclusion for everyone in the planet that if aliens are saying something about 10% of the children in every country, but not what, that this might be both bad and unpreventable, and mass panic would probably ensue. And Frobisher is totally panicky and unconvincing as a PermSec - possibly because he has the crappest and most unconvincing Private Office ever. For starters there's at least four of them, you don't use temps, and OlderSnottyWoman would never give away a password to NewPerkyWoman. And if she did, it wouldn't get you into much. Certainly nothing Top Secret or above. Starting to seriously challenge my suspension of disbelief here! Plus the amazing surveillance that knows everything about Jack and co except that Jack has a daughter and grandson. And then Jack going in all guns blazing, and having his bluff totally called. What was the point in that? Time to get Ianto's kit off... oh no, the beans are done....
One of my pet hates is books which prove they are Serious Litritcha by having someone die about 80% of the way through. It so often smacks of putting a death in to spice up the plot. And this case reeked of it. With an extra hint of not being able to have a couple in a same-sex relationship on telly for more than five minutes.
The Radio Times interviewed John Barrowman for this week's issue and said he sounded pissed off with the series. And weren't allowed to know anything about eps 4 and 5. I'm not surprised he was failing to hide annoyance.
Looks like we're still waiting for a lead TV character to be in an established same-sex relationship. Unless they fixed that zombie-glove or something, but I seriously doubt it.
Bah. The series was going well; it didn't need such a facile attempt to tug my heartstrings. They'd already annoyed the American networks by cutting a 13-part series to 5 hours - why not go the whole hog and have an explicitly couply male fighting duo?