grumpy

[julesjones]

Not exactly the usual RTD "brilliant and then goes all to pieces in the last half hour", but even so, there was far too much piling on the manpain just for the sake of manpain. I have said more than once that Torchwood is essentially a bunch of Who fanboys and girls writing fanfic and conning the BBC into paying to put it on screen. Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes it is not. What they did with the five night mini-series format was absolutely bloody brilliant as a whole, but That Scene last night felt suspiciously like someone had a lovely idea for A Really Clever Thing To Do, and then failed to do the necessary work to make it feel like an organic part of the story it was grafted into. I've got a migraine, so I'm going to have to leave it until tomorrow to rant in detail about "we didn't kill him off in Cyberwoman like we were going to, so let's do it now, complete with replay of Magic Kiss Of Life only *this* time it doesn't work!".

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it, but it's all OVER my flist... 90% hate it, a few love it.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised, as - at least for the first 3 episodes - the reactions I've seen on my own flist have been very positive. Even posters to uk.media.tv.sf.drwho, who mostly hate RTD, have raved about it.