Torchwood

[emmelinemay]

Ok, I have now watched the first three episodes of Torchwood.


I thought the 1st one was a bit all over the place, and a bit awkward, with slightly ropey acting. I figured, it's the first one, it's got a difficult job to do introducing all of this. I'll give it a chance.

Although part of me was saying 'how come Torchwood is such a chickenshit outfit what with being a MIB style 'outside the government' operation? even the x-files department was run better than this and the government didn't want them.

But i ignored that voice, thinking, it's bound to get better.

The second one was a bit better. The acting is still ropey as all hell, and the main female lead starts to piss me off.

This chickenshit outfit goes 'hey, there's this really clumsy and slightly stupid bint, but she's cute and might shag birds. let's give her a job, rather than modify her memory. She'd fit right in here as she's really irritiating and can't act.

But still, i hang on to faith. It's got Captain Jack in it. It's GOT to get good.

Despite the fact that part of me is saying it's like the tomorrow people, with slightly better production values and swearing.

We watched part three last night. It was a test of endurance to get through it. It had me shouting at it. I repeatedly asked Ben to make it Go Away and he refused, forcing me to watch the whole thing so i would truly understand that my faith in it was utterly misplaced. To understand the torture i'd put him through by insisting he watch the first two while maintaing that 'its BOUND' to get better eventually.

There was even a fucking gun learning montage A MONTAGE for fucksake. With pumping inspirational eye-of-the-tiger style music, bits where they share a joke, and where she ends up an expert of shooting after 2 minutes of some really obvious LOOK!!! LOOOK!!!! THEY FANCY EACH OTHER AND SHE'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!!! OOOOOOOOOH!!!! camera angles.

Edit - and another thing. How come an 'above the government department' who own the WHOLE TOP FLOORS OF CANARY WHARF in Dr Who end up in some basement in Cardiff?

And this is meant to be the same team that blew up the Sycorax₁ ship in the xmas special with a giant LASER_TM? The team we see on Torchwood the TV show would have difficulty throwing ROCKS at a space ship.




_{1 and yes, it pisses me off that they named an alien species after Caliban's mother in the Tempest. WHY????}


I'm sorry, Torchwood.

I REALLY wanted to like you. I did. Perhaps it's not you, it's me. I just have higher expectations. I don't think we can stay friends, you've just dissapointed me one too many times. I'm sure you and your fans will be very happy together, alas, for you and me, it just wasn't meant to be.

Comments

[publicansdecoy.livejournal.com]

Torchwood is OK-ish, but nothing special. The gun fetishisation was utter bollocks.

But dude! What's wrong with The Tomorrow People?

-x-

[haloj.livejournal.com]

I'm having to agree with you there. It really is pretty damn weak. So far I have recorded every episode to watch when I have chance rather than staying in and watching it as I did with Dr Who. For me I'm going to give it one more go but I have a feeling the 4th episode with the "cyberman" theme is going to be a rather large nail in an already closed coffin.

[darkapotheosis.livejournal.com]

meh I think it's reasonably watchcable shite, no worse than the recent Dr Who series.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

It's pretty bad, but no worse than the new Doctor Who¹.

¹Because the BBC's current scriptwriters are bereft of creativity² and kids these days will never have heard of The Tempest
² I cite Robin Hoodie as evidence.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

how come Torchwood is such a chickenshit outfit what with being a MIB style 'outside the government' operation?

Because this is Torchwood Cariff, a teeny little offshoot of the main event. Similarly to their having basement offices - Cardiff doesn't have a Canary Wharf, and Captain Jack's supposed to be a bit of an idiosyncratic rule-breaker, so maybe he doesn't want to toe the corporate line?

[greeba.livejournal.com]

I agree that the tone is all over the place. I want dark, not kitsch.

[cx650.livejournal.com]

I wanted to like it too, but after watching the first two I didn't bother with number three.

[kirstenlj.livejournal.com]

I didn't see 1 & 2, but I did see 3. I was a bit underwhelmed, but ye gods that woman was annoying. And the gun thing was pretty bad. I'll watch on Sunday probably, but not too fussed if I miss it either.

[angel-emma.livejournal.com]

I couldn't care less about the acting. It has hot men in it.

No seriously I do like it. I don't think I am as fussy as you when it comes to my fantasy/sci-fi. I agree that it's been a bit all over the place but it's early days. The first season of Buffy was very ropey and it got better and better as time went on. It is supposed to be a spin off and have nothing to do with DW, therefore you can't compare them really. Though people are all over the place. The torch_wood community on LJ is mental though! They are obsessed already and there have only been 3 episodes!

Anyway just remember it has HOT MEN in it. lol.

[damien-mocata.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I think Torchwood exists only for Russell to use lines he cant use in Doctor Who because it's considered a family program.

I wont go out of my way to watch it after the first three episodes. It's starting to remind me of "Love and Monsters", or possibly the worst Dr Who story ever.

[cutietrol.livejournal.com]

Has it actually been explained yet how Captain Jack came to be back there? Last I recall he was on a space station a number of centuries in the future.

But yes, RTD is not my favourite writer. 2nd episode - "Look, we're *all* bisexual, how cool are we". Yeah, great Mary Sue...

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

I have to admit thaat I really kind of loved #1 and #2, but #3 was patchy and ropey and didn't entirely make sense and the gun montage was - I have no idea what that was..... #4 needs to up it's game, please.