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And in tonight's telly...
Feb. 28th, 2008 01:55 am...Torchwood demonstrates once again that shallow and self-centred people can't hack being alive after death, that people who claim to have no feelings can do petulant and sullen quite well thank you, and something else which would be a spoiler for next week.
We've also been watching Jekyll, which we missed on the first run, and are enjoying it a lot more than I for one expected. Steven Moffat is one of the good writers who occasionally almost redeems nuWho, and in tonight's episode of Jekyll we saw James Nesbitt channeling the Tenth Doctor for a brief period. I'd got the impression from the trailers and other publicity that they were going to play it as a simple case of multiple personality disorder, but the reality is far otherwise, and it's keeping us guessing as to what's really going on.
There is now a set of characteristics emerging, with nuWho, Torchwood, Being Human (if it makes it to series) and Jekyll, which in future decades will I think be seen as defining British telly fantasy of this period: how much of this is due to the comparatively small number of writers turning the stuff out is open to debate. The advantage of being old and decrepit like me, of course, is that you can look back over previous periods and know that these characteristics, like the ones that defined the genre in the Sixties and the Seventies and the Eighties, are transient artifacts of the state of the world and of television, and not (as someone who only started watching within the period might think) the one and only True Way to do it.
We've also been watching Jekyll, which we missed on the first run, and are enjoying it a lot more than I for one expected. Steven Moffat is one of the good writers who occasionally almost redeems nuWho, and in tonight's episode of Jekyll we saw James Nesbitt channeling the Tenth Doctor for a brief period. I'd got the impression from the trailers and other publicity that they were going to play it as a simple case of multiple personality disorder, but the reality is far otherwise, and it's keeping us guessing as to what's really going on.
There is now a set of characteristics emerging, with nuWho, Torchwood, Being Human (if it makes it to series) and Jekyll, which in future decades will I think be seen as defining British telly fantasy of this period: how much of this is due to the comparatively small number of writers turning the stuff out is open to debate. The advantage of being old and decrepit like me, of course, is that you can look back over previous periods and know that these characteristics, like the ones that defined the genre in the Sixties and the Seventies and the Eighties, are transient artifacts of the state of the world and of television, and not (as someone who only started watching within the period might think) the one and only True Way to do it.