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Torchwood
I feel I should say something about Torchwood, but I'll do it under a cut since US readers probably won't have seen it yet.
Actually we quite liked the first three days. Phoebesmum commented that you didn't often see a gay couple in a 'normal' drama - specific gay dramas, yes, but not in a general mainstream programme. Gwen's rescue attempt was typically ditzy, that woman is *so* annoying! Then came episode 4, and the entire thing unravelled. We *liked* Ianto, and we liked the relationship between him and Captain Jack. I personally think killing Ianto was the most idiotic thing RTD has done, not counting the derivative, manipulative plot. It's getting great critical praise - but I have a suspicion that's from people who don't understand that the political drama, the (utterly terrifying!) let's give them the ASBO kids moment, are what Science Fition has ALWAYS done. Are these the people who never watch SF, the ones who thought the Battlestar Galactica reimaging was brilliant 'because it wasn't just spaceships'? Also, people who never heard of Utilitarianism. As for the final scene - it was Tennant and Piper on the beach all over again, and yet again RTD demonstrating that for a gay man, he prefers hetrosexual relationships. I'm beginning to think a good shrink wouldn't go amiss ...
Actually we quite liked the first three days. Phoebesmum commented that you didn't often see a gay couple in a 'normal' drama - specific gay dramas, yes, but not in a general mainstream programme. Gwen's rescue attempt was typically ditzy, that woman is *so* annoying! Then came episode 4, and the entire thing unravelled. We *liked* Ianto, and we liked the relationship between him and Captain Jack. I personally think killing Ianto was the most idiotic thing RTD has done, not counting the derivative, manipulative plot. It's getting great critical praise - but I have a suspicion that's from people who don't understand that the political drama, the (utterly terrifying!) let's give them the ASBO kids moment, are what Science Fition has ALWAYS done. Are these the people who never watch SF, the ones who thought the Battlestar Galactica reimaging was brilliant 'because it wasn't just spaceships'? Also, people who never heard of Utilitarianism. As for the final scene - it was Tennant and Piper on the beach all over again, and yet again RTD demonstrating that for a gay man, he prefers hetrosexual relationships. I'm beginning to think a good shrink wouldn't go amiss ...
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And not as good a writer as he likes to think he is, or as he could be if he made the effort more consistently.
That's what I think anyway.