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Agreed with a lot of the comments about blatant plot holes and implausibility - still, i'm actually liking Torchwood a lot better than post-reboot Doctor Who... maybe it's because a) i'm really, really not feeling the one-shot episodes of Nu Skool Who because the essence of Who for me was the 4 and 6 parters with lots of silly supporting-character filler and eccentrically dragged-out chase scenes, whereas Torchwood, and b) neither Eccleston nor Tennant has really felt like the Doctor to me, whereas Torchwood, being as it is a new show with a lead character with not very much backstory, has neither of those "traditions" to live up to...
One theory i read on another board is that all the "alien" stuff in Torchwood so far (before the Cyberwoman episode, of course) has been stuff that could just as easily exist in the demon/magick-based Buffy/Angel universe, and therefore is to some degree recycling of RTD's scripts for that "Young Giles/Ripper" project...
Re last episode, agreed that the lack of alien weapons capable of dealing with a half-upgraded Cyber(wo)man was just fucking silly, as well as the idea that a) something which had a lot of exposed bare, vulnerable human flesh could be effectively bulletproof and b) that said "bulletproof" being could nevertheless be taken down easily by a pterodactyl (which, while an impressive looking beastie, in reality probably wouldn't win a fight against, say, a tiger or a bear)...
I think it would have been superior dramatically if a) Jack had actually killed Ianto, b) Ianto had killed himself, or c) Ianto had left in such a manner as to make it clear he was not only leaving Torchwood permanently, but now its sworn enemy (maybe had him grab a piece of alien technology which would allow him to escape somewhere undetectable - or, ooh, even a piece of Cyberman technology he had had stowed away along with Lisa, to teleport himself to Mondas, and then he could basically be a traitor/collaborationist villain along the lines of Baltar from the original Battlestar Galactica) (of course, the latter may yet happen)...
Still, at least it was better than that hideously sexist Species-meets-Fallen derivative trash of a "plot" in episode 2... that episode nearly put me off the whole series, but episodes 3 and 4 thankfully went some way towards offsetting 2's subconscious bigotry (tho in 3, to be honest, i'd have preferred it a lot if either Owen or Gwen had just killed the rapist and had no regrets about it - as it is, 2 followed by 3 seemed to give a very strong "one law for the humans, another for every other sentient species" message, which seems very at odds with the politics/ethics of all the classic Who series - and the Jack/Gwen gun-porn was just pathetic - tho i suppose there's a case for it being seen as intentionally showing Jack to be a creepy, sleazy, sexual-harassment-boss bastard...
Next episode, from the trailer, looks to be a bit full of the unconvincingly cheesy CGI that has IMO marred the post-relaunch Who series - so far, i had been fairly impressed with Torchwood's reliance on relatively understated and "real"-looking effects... oh well, will have to see if it rises above it...
personal favourite fanwank theory: JAKC IS TEH MASTER!!!1!!111! LOL WTF!!! |
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