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emmelinemay ([personal profile] emmelinemay) wrote2006-11-12 10:21 pm
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torchwood

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?'
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[identity profile] cookwitch.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's written by Russell Twee, what do you expect? *grin*
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[personal profile] kathbad 2006-11-12 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I know how bad it is, but I still like it.

Faeries!

[identity profile] aidan-skinner.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I a bad person for liking both?

[identity profile] ex-cooljohn507.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The only time there is a good music score in a program or film is when you dont notice its there.

[identity profile] angel-emma.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok this one tonight really was DIRE. I keep giving it a chance and it lets me down every week. If this had been a Dr Who episode, I would have been all "awwww the little girl is going to go off with them" etc but I couln't give a shit. In fact the only thing I gave a shit about was shirtless Jack at the beginning. It all went downhill from there!!!

URGH why is it bad? I wish it was good :):(:(

[identity profile] spoox.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
There was an advert for robin Hood on tv the other night and the music for the advert was Alice by the Sisters of Mercy; I was quite impressed, sorry to hear that the program is shit.

[identity profile] deviblue.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] robtrooper.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
I do see a pattern in your Torchwood posts.
You always ask why you are watching it but still watch it the next week.
I remember the old doctor who was crappy sets, funny sounds and questionable acting but that was the show and i still watched it without really knowing why.
But you've totaly put me off robin hood now.

[identity profile] miss-soap.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
The first two weren't bad. The most recent two have just been laughably dire. I will probably keep watching it, though.

[identity profile] rubberwench.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
what really annoys me about robin hood is that all the peasentary have got working class accents, but they're from all over the country. that's really dumb - they're in nottinghamshire ffs. they live in villages where they've lived their whole lives, they're unlikely to sound like they're from yorkshire and certainly not like they're from london. and if they can't get enough actors to do a nottinghamshire accent, they should at least TRY and get everyone sounding the same.
what was robin doing talking all geezer? i'm sure when i saw it he was fairly rp.
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