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

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I was the other way round with Gwen, I think - I found her dreadfully Mary-Sueish at first, but she developed into enough of a real character for me to tolerate, despite occasional slips back into specialness, by the second season.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then, since I find her even worse in Season 2. (TW ends for my with S2, by the way) But that's okay. Life would be terribly boring if we agreed in everything.