Torchwood: Miracle Day
Right. Obviously Miracle Day is thoroughgoing bobbins (and rather bland and dull bobbins too), but last night's mad magic potion sequence made me feel fond of Torchwood for the very first time. Eve Myles the best thing in it by a country mile.
To my mind now obviously has nothing to do with SF/F any more, but has turned into action adventure with a hundreds-and-thousands sprinkling of technobabble. Seems to be feeling its way towards Burn Notice: small team of outcasts solving problem of the week with slightly preposterous use of whatever is to hand (Burn Notice obviously owing lots to The A-Team). But Torchwood nowhere near as savvy or well-crafted as Burn Notice. And Torchwood has nobody to compare with the Dream Team of Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless.
To my complete surprise, I am going to watch episode 3.
To my mind now obviously has nothing to do with SF/F any more, but has turned into action adventure with a hundreds-and-thousands sprinkling of technobabble. Seems to be feeling its way towards Burn Notice: small team of outcasts solving problem of the week with slightly preposterous use of whatever is to hand (Burn Notice obviously owing lots to The A-Team). But Torchwood nowhere near as savvy or well-crafted as Burn Notice. And Torchwood has nobody to compare with the Dream Team of Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless.
To my complete surprise, I am going to watch episode 3.
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"Democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others"
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But again, it's a matter of taste, I guess. After all, I can't stand Sharon Gless, either.
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Ha! No, neither of these shows are for you!
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I started off liking Gwen in the Torchwood pilot, actually. But it didn't last. I just can't stand Mary Sues.
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It has suddenly occurred to me that I do have an icon more topical than Owen.
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Is the woman in the icon the PR character?
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[Wanders off whistling theme tune to the latter - why can't I remember the MacGyver theme?]
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Because of fear that, should you show young people that you can blow the doors off a barn using things found in a barn, they will imitate this at home on the farm, the solutions were often far from the obvious ones.
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And apparently the devil is stalking the earth, proffering temptation in the form of a red-headed woman. There's lovely.
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They'll never take me alive.
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Hmmm, actually, thinking about it, I'm not sure how Captain Jack and Eleven would be together onscreen. Maybe not the same chemistry as with Nine and Ten. Captain Jack and River Song, however would be fabulous together - maybe teamed up with Jenny (the Doctor's daughter).
Re Gwen. I like her. And she doesn't fit any definition of Mary Sue I've ever come across. Wish fulfillment for the writer? Hardly. For the audience? Definitely not.
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:-) I know I forgive sins that I simply wouldn't in any other show.
My real hope is for a spin-off series with Madame Vastra and Jenny (not the Doctor's daughter).
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I haven't watched Burn Notice, but the style and content of Miracle Day reminds me of Flashforward, though without such a large cast or convoluted plot (at least not yet). And like Flashforward, I'm having trouble making out some of the dialogue because of the actors speaking in the jumble that seems to have become fashionable.
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Also, they tested the ageing process of the unkillable humans by looking at their telomeres, and I went all giddy. Telomeres!