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

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

So what they are saying is, the part of the UK with a HUGE interdimensional rift running right through it, is the part of the UK that gets the chickenshit rule breaking underfunded department?

[pygar.livejournal.com]

aha, well maybe torchwood has captain jack as the front man projecting the public persona of a chickenshit rule breaking department, so not to arrouse too much international interest from similar organisations who might consider a slick well organised governement department as a threat to national security.

maybe its so secret even the dumbass captain jack is unaware of the full extent of the conspiracy he is being asked to front. and in actual fact there is some level headed M type person pulling the strings from afar giving jack just enough information to bungle his way through, while all the time this M character has his/her finger on the button of a thousand nukes!

maybe.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

heheheheh :) Maybe!!! I like the way you think!

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Probably. Seeing as the huge corporation was too powerful for its own good and let in the cybermen...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I guess uber-sekrit ultra-powerful government departments are just like every other public sector organisation. Underfunded and woefully badly run :)


(i saw this working for a huge charity, where our central finance department 'lost' some cheques in someone's drawer.)

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Maybe after the fiasco of the Ultra Powerful one, they had no funds and no staff left and so Torchwood 3 has been left all on its little lonesome to carry on the fight. Such as it is. In Cardiff. *blink*

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Even though that it's SO IMPORTANT that it all carries on as the 21st century is 'when it all changes'.

Maybe it all changes becaue torchwood is so rubbish and keeps fecking things up?

Oh, what a clever twist that would be. And totally unexpected.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

*grin* And you know what? Even after all that, I still like it. Sorry about that. :)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I tried, i really really did.

I really WANTED to like it too.

But it made me want to kick things.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Frankly it could feature RTD in a tutu and flippers, and I'd still watch it for Jack. Mind you, R Twee D really should leave the writing to, oh, people with TALENT.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

hehe :)

Did you see the thing i linked to on my reply to darkapotheosis further up? The Second Coming? You might be quite interested in that!