Torchwood. I have come to a conclusion
I am pretty much in favour of the latest incarnation of Doctor Who, and I like the Captain Jack Harkness character. So I was quite looking forward to the much hyped spin-off, Torchwood.
We watched the first episode, and allowed it those awkward moments that all new TV series go through. The second episode showed some promise, even though the swearing and sexual references seemed weirdly out of place and uncomfortable. It was as if a bunch of eleven year-olds had been given a film crew and told to be as naughty as possible. Lots of swearing because that what’s adults do - with a couple of ‘blurring the sexual boundaries’ moments thrown in for good measure.
The most recent episode has, for me, consigned the series to the ‘watch it if I happen to turn over and have nothing to read and my toe-nails don’t need cutting‘. The dialogue was cringe-worthy. The horror was horrible. And the sudden sexual tension between the odd looking circus freak Owen and Gwen, the naive ex-police woman was just bizaar.
The above things make it difficult to watch. These next things make it impossible for a pedant like me to enjoy.
1 - If they are a top secret extra governmental organisation, why do they have TORCHWOOD engraved all over their car?
2 - When they decided to camp out to catch this week’s monster, they unpacked canvas tents and 60 year old tea chests from the back of their high-tech, computer filled car.
3 - Gwen, the ex-wpc has a really big head grafted onto the body of a small person.
I wonder what the ratings are doing?
Written by exmonkey on November 20th, 2006 with
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gilesbooth
#1. November 22nd, 2006, at 10:29 PM.
Agree with you. I’ll watch it if it happens to come on and I can’t be arsed to find the remote to change the channel. The X-Files and Lost didn’t make much sense either (to say the least) but they hooked me and this just didn’t.
And everything looks crap beside the ten year-old (like a fine malt!) adaptation of The Crow Road which BBC-4 have just dusted off and shown again.