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

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I probably misspelled it! Let me check ... ah, yes, MacGyver.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen that either! ;-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That's a shame! You missed Richard Dean Anderson disarm nuclear bombs with the help of paper clips on the weekly basis. Plus him being young and yummy, of course. Not that he weren't yummy with grey hair, mind you...

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

MacGyver and The A-Team were compulsory Saturday teatime viewing in our house When I Were A Lass...

[Wanders off whistling theme tune to the latter - why can't I remember the MacGyver theme?]

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

It was fun. The eponymous hero had an un-American quirk in that he Did Not Like Guns. Each episode saw him in a situation where he had to use science or engineering knowledge to escape the Terrible Situation.

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.