torchwood

[emmelinemay]

is SO BAD.

why am watching it?

the acting is bad enough, but the programme makers seem to need to put this incidental music over everything.

there's THIS MOMENT IS SAD music, THIS MOMENT IS SPOOKY music, THIS MOMENT IS FUNNY music. And every now and then the camera goes all swingy for no reason to back up the THIS MOMENT IS SPOOKY music, as if to hammer the point home.

Still, having caught part of robin hood the other day, torchwood isn't as bad as that... half of them look like they bought their clothes in primark. And you keep expecting Robin Hood to go 'alwight mate, don't leave yer car there, i'll nick it, innit. i'm a geeza, yeah?'

Comments

[deviblue.livejournal.com]

The swingy camera thing is to make it look like the 'steadycam fisheyelens' thing that they did in evil dead, but they're on a budget.

I think the fact its being shown on BBC 3 is more than enough to tell you what it was going to be like. Its just not Doctor Who (although I am dreading the christmas episode)

As for Robin Hood, just cos it claims to be robin hood, it doesn't make it Robin hood

[greeba.livejournal.com]

I too am dreading the christmas episode... The tearful coda of the last series was ruined by the untimely appearance of Catherine Sodding Tate.