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ffutures gave it half a dozen words. The first to comment in depth, then...)
Well, let's get rid of the elephant in the room right away. James Marsters, for the TW target audience, is about the most blatant piece of stunt casting since, er well, Christmas actually. He's also very good, and still quite pretty despite the *ahem* laugh lines, and slipped easily into the Spike role to Jack's Angel. It was like the boy had never been away. That it *is*, so obviously, the Angel/Spike dynamic lifted wholesale and without shame, is an issue we may have to return to.
The plot. Well, there was one. It rested on pure coincidence, of course, unless there really is something about Earth in our time that attracts ever' dang McGuffin in the multiverse, in which case that ought to be something for Torchwood to explore and possibly fix. The paralysing lip gloss is a steal from Firefly (hmm), and let's face it, he could have just knocked Gwen on the head (although "Don't let him knock you on the head and lock you in a cargo container" would have been a rather footling third rule). One tasted kapok a bit towards the middle, with all that running around, and Tosh and Owen's incapacitating injuries from which they recover completely as soon as Ianto appears (ah, the healing power of a well-dressed Welshman). But, on the whole, it worked.
Two things, in reverse order: the arc plot hook. "I found Grey (or possibly Gray)." And Jack has a flash of a small hand slipping out of a larger one, against a background of flames. The Countess thinks Gray (or as it might be Grey) is Jack's baby, the one he mentioned being pregnant with in the first episode of series one. Maybe, or maybe it's a child of Jack's more orthodoxly conceived. As long as he or she doesn't come back as a sullen complex teen who's spent his or her life in some kind of hell and wants to kill Daddy.
And the teaser, in which a blowfish-headed humanoid driving a sports car startles an old lady, who mutters "Bloody Torchwood" as she goes about her business. They really need to sort out which world they are operating in: ours, where the existence of aliens and rifts and so on is a more or less successfully kept secret, or some other one where everyone knows what's going on and isn't too bothered. it feels as though they're trying to have their cake and eat it, and that's an uneasy feeling.
Still, I will be watching.
Wittier and more trenchant analyses than mine will doubtless follow...
ffutures gave it half a dozen words. The first to comment in depth, then...)Well, let's get rid of the elephant in the room right away. James Marsters, for the TW target audience, is about the most blatant piece of stunt casting since, er well, Christmas actually. He's also very good, and still quite pretty despite the *ahem* laugh lines, and slipped easily into the Spike role to Jack's Angel. It was like the boy had never been away. That it *is*, so obviously, the Angel/Spike dynamic lifted wholesale and without shame, is an issue we may have to return to.
The plot. Well, there was one. It rested on pure coincidence, of course, unless there really is something about Earth in our time that attracts ever' dang McGuffin in the multiverse, in which case that ought to be something for Torchwood to explore and possibly fix. The paralysing lip gloss is a steal from Firefly (hmm), and let's face it, he could have just knocked Gwen on the head (although "Don't let him knock you on the head and lock you in a cargo container" would have been a rather footling third rule). One tasted kapok a bit towards the middle, with all that running around, and Tosh and Owen's incapacitating injuries from which they recover completely as soon as Ianto appears (ah, the healing power of a well-dressed Welshman). But, on the whole, it worked.
Two things, in reverse order: the arc plot hook. "I found Grey (or possibly Gray)." And Jack has a flash of a small hand slipping out of a larger one, against a background of flames. The Countess thinks Gray (or as it might be Grey) is Jack's baby, the one he mentioned being pregnant with in the first episode of series one. Maybe, or maybe it's a child of Jack's more orthodoxly conceived. As long as he or she doesn't come back as a sullen complex teen who's spent his or her life in some kind of hell and wants to kill Daddy.
And the teaser, in which a blowfish-headed humanoid driving a sports car startles an old lady, who mutters "Bloody Torchwood" as she goes about her business. They really need to sort out which world they are operating in: ours, where the existence of aliens and rifts and so on is a more or less successfully kept secret, or some other one where everyone knows what's going on and isn't too bothered. it feels as though they're trying to have their cake and eat it, and that's an uneasy feeling.
Still, I will be watching.
Wittier and more trenchant analyses than mine will doubtless follow...
Enjoyed it
Date: 2008-01-17 10:12 pm (UTC)Enjoyed it even with the show's obssesive need to push the homosexual agenda. Some might find it exciting but some might find it disgusting.
Ianto actually brings good delivery for jokes in his stoic persona.
But dont they then need someone else to do his old job?
I give the show a 8/10. Maybe its only a 7.5 in reality but missed the show enough to give it an extra .5
The preview that was on the file I DL looked amaazing? Was that just for the next episode or was that the arc for a couple of them?
Looked very compelling.
Im happy Martha Jones will be in further shows.
The casting of the short Time Agent didnt affect me since I have no idea who he is. I didnt know who the new Who companion was either so I search some to find out why she was a polarizing choice (not that Im too impressed by having a Girl Band bimbo either). She annoys the hell out of me.
Im gonna keep watching but always afraid that this show turns into a Men In Black spoof.
Rob Enderle
Re: Enjoyed it
Date: 2008-01-17 11:34 pm (UTC)More like omni-sexual agenda, actually.
Some might find it exciting but some might find it disgusting."
...Which of course cuts both ways. And you can't please all the people all the time (at least not without a much bigger jacuzzi). =:o}
Re: Enjoyed it
Date: 2008-01-18 01:26 am (UTC)So, yes, the obsessive need to push is what puts me off. Not the thing itself.