Torchwood: Miracle Day

[altariel]

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.

Comments

[manna]

I love Torchwood with unconditional devotion. At this point, I'm pretty sure there's nothing that will change that (bar Steven Moffat taking over, I guess). Torchwood is also the only show on TV where you start each new series with no idea of what it's turned into this time, which I assume is how RTD stops himself getting bored with it.

Also, they tested the ageing process of the unkillable humans by looking at their telomeres, and I went all giddy. Telomeres!