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redfiona99And with numbered points:
1) Most shows, being moved over onto the "big channel" (ignoring temporarily ones own preference for BBC2), would ramp up the ingredients that they're known for, which in Torchwood's case are sex, violence and swearing. Torchwood, not being most shows, go for a morality play instead. There was no one in that meeting room who didn't act their socks off.
2) On an acting front, they've taught John Barrowman how to act for the TV. No offense was intended, but he had the problem that a lot of mostly stage actors have, where they seem to be convinced that there is one deaf little old man somewhere on row ZZ that they need to be louder for. He stopped doing that just in time for this set of 5. Damn him!
3) RTD, never leave me. I do not care particularly what you do next, as long as you keep writing.
4) Gwen is still made of awesome. As is Rhys (it's that he tries to comfort Clem when Gwen is busy doing other stuff). If they are killed off, my anger will be furious to behold.
5) The aliens are still unnecessarily creepy. Possibly they're using the kids as some sort of external liver? I want the answer to what they're up to in part 5.
6) Things I don't want to see: Rhiannon and her husband, or their children, hurt in any way.
6b) I also love what RTD has done with them. At the start of the show we get introduced to two very common, not particularly attractive characters, who blatently live on a sink estate, and we're shown their good points, which is exactly what whatsherface in the war room is getting rid of.
7) Lois Habibe, saving the world, one meeting at a time.
8) Oh Clem!
8a) I loved that no one bought 'I'm sorry', yes, RTD, you have finally learnt that a character saying that does not make everything better.
9) I loved Johnstone's outraged reaction to finding out what the government were up to.
10) I loved Ianto's phone call, because he warned the wire tappers because they're the good guys.
11) The thing, that I choose to be in temporary denial over, did not hit me as hard as Owen and Tosh being killed off did (re: which - nope, still not over it), and I was fine, mostly because Ianto still manages to be a cross between represses everything and drama queen, only then Gwen went to uncover the bodies, and she's crying at Ianto and Jack's crying with her and wah!
11)a) Went downstairs (I watched it on Iplayer due to being out when it was on real TV), greeted housemate P (the one I don't want to murder half the time), who'd refused to tell me anything about the episode except that I should watch it, with 'wibble', which he totally agreed with.
12) The science was the usual RTD mix of impossible, implausible and badly written. I am choosing to concentrate on it's problems rather than certain other things.
13) I do wonder why Dekker isn't dead in the trailer for the next episode. He inhaled just as much stuff as everyone else.
Really looking forward to tonight's episode.
1) Most shows, being moved over onto the "big channel" (ignoring temporarily ones own preference for BBC2), would ramp up the ingredients that they're known for, which in Torchwood's case are sex, violence and swearing. Torchwood, not being most shows, go for a morality play instead. There was no one in that meeting room who didn't act their socks off.
2) On an acting front, they've taught John Barrowman how to act for the TV. No offense was intended, but he had the problem that a lot of mostly stage actors have, where they seem to be convinced that there is one deaf little old man somewhere on row ZZ that they need to be louder for. He stopped doing that just in time for this set of 5. Damn him!
3) RTD, never leave me. I do not care particularly what you do next, as long as you keep writing.
4) Gwen is still made of awesome. As is Rhys (it's that he tries to comfort Clem when Gwen is busy doing other stuff). If they are killed off, my anger will be furious to behold.
5) The aliens are still unnecessarily creepy. Possibly they're using the kids as some sort of external liver? I want the answer to what they're up to in part 5.
6) Things I don't want to see: Rhiannon and her husband, or their children, hurt in any way.
6b) I also love what RTD has done with them. At the start of the show we get introduced to two very common, not particularly attractive characters, who blatently live on a sink estate, and we're shown their good points, which is exactly what whatsherface in the war room is getting rid of.
7) Lois Habibe, saving the world, one meeting at a time.
8) Oh Clem!
8a) I loved that no one bought 'I'm sorry', yes, RTD, you have finally learnt that a character saying that does not make everything better.
9) I loved Johnstone's outraged reaction to finding out what the government were up to.
10) I loved Ianto's phone call, because he warned the wire tappers because they're the good guys.
11) The thing, that I choose to be in temporary denial over, did not hit me as hard as Owen and Tosh being killed off did (re: which - nope, still not over it), and I was fine, mostly because Ianto still manages to be a cross between represses everything and drama queen, only then Gwen went to uncover the bodies, and she's crying at Ianto and Jack's crying with her and wah!
11)a) Went downstairs (I watched it on Iplayer due to being out when it was on real TV), greeted housemate P (the one I don't want to murder half the time), who'd refused to tell me anything about the episode except that I should watch it, with 'wibble', which he totally agreed with.
12) The science was the usual RTD mix of impossible, implausible and badly written. I am choosing to concentrate on it's problems rather than certain other things.
13) I do wonder why Dekker isn't dead in the trailer for the next episode. He inhaled just as much stuff as everyone else.
Really looking forward to tonight's episode.
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Date: 2009-07-10 03:09 pm (UTC)