Torchwood

[altariel]

So, Torchwood. Kind of... icky, wasn't it? I think I get the story might be about corruption now. But Gwen is a useless POV character (and I'll never forgive her for what she's doing to Barry Backstory; although I think Burn wotsisname is giving the best performance in the show). I think if I was about fifteen, I might think this was the best TV programme I had ever seen. As it is - well, it's better than Robin Hood. But nowhere near as good as Strictly Come Dancing.

Hey, though! They're showing Crown Court on Legal TV!

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[gfk88.livejournal.com]

Torchwood - er, I think I may be a week behind so the following probably makes no sense. It's been a bit disappointing so far, I reckon - no character development, rubbish plots, and so on. I can dimly see, though, that maybe it has some sort of ambition about it. In the last one I saw, with those fairy thingies, Jack deliberately sacrifices the little girl for some alleged greater good AND you get to see the consequences. Now I reckon that doesn't happen very often on the telly - TV heroes are generally falling over each other to sacrifice themselves or someone they think deserves it.

Crown Court - fantastic ! I grew up on that, you know.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The fairy one was last week: I think it was the best one so far, although I do wish Estelle (the old woman) hadn't been killed purely for the purpose of Angsting Jack.

(BTW, the DVDs have arrived safe and sound, and I hope you had a chance to watch them.)

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

DVDs -thanks, yes mostly. I thought A Murder of Quality was fun, and Edge of Darkness was fantastic. I couldn't get into the other thingy, whose name I've now forgotten.

I thought the whole Estelle thing was done incredibly clunkily. It must have been if even I found the it-was-really-Jack-not-his-dad bit too telegraphed.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a chance to watch them: Edge of Darkness is something special, and knocks the stuffing out of the current effort The State Within. Sapphire and Steel was the other one, IIRC? It is very slow, I think - one of things you either get into or don't. Its author and creator - PJ Hammond - was the author of Torchwood's fairy episode.

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

Hey - I'm consistent and I didn't even know it.

You're right - I'd been really looking forward to The State Within and I gave up after 2-and-a-half episodes as it was very disappointing.

Do you agree that the last episode of Spooks was a bit of a let-down too ?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm still watching The State Within, but only with half an eye.

I actually really enjoyed the last episode of Spooks: I thought it was a relatively straightforward suspense story, but that they did it wonderfully well. I was literally bouncing around in excitement by the end. But some of the dialogue was daft and the resolve with Adam's bit of metal was terribly corny. Mr A. agrees that it was a let-down. What didn't you like?

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

Only that it didn't turn out to be in any sense a climax of the series as a whole - they could have bunged the episode in more or less anywhere (apart from that it sort of depended a bit on Adam's loopy arc). As an episode in itself it was pretty good, so maybe my earlier comment was too harsh.

I don't understand why they seem to have resolved the usual end-of-season cliffhanger - why not just cut half a second earlier and leave us all guessing ? [Unless it's all a bluff and they've surfaced in the path of a speedboat ?)

And I lost my bet re Malcolm's revenge on Ros!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why they seem to have resolved the usual end-of-season cliffhanger

I have to say that if they had done the cut half a second earlier, I would have put my foot through the television screen. I needed that resolution!