Torchwood - Caught Up
Aug. 7th, 2011 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightcastleSo to satisfy my desire to have discussions with lucidite and melebeth, I watched episodes 3, 4, and 5.
I still like Bill Pullman and Lauren Ambrose, even if I would much rather watch these characters in a better show. Arlene Tur was awesome, too.
I am curious how they are going to pull off a grand reveal of the evil aliens behind it all, because right now there seems to be very little to make this plot make sense.
If it was a complete mystery, and we were just dealing with how people reacted, it would be better. Things like the soulless and Dead is Dead cult would be interesting, but we clearly aren't going to spend any time exploring them. I did notice a scroll on one of the news broadcasts that looked like it was saying "death in southeast asia disproves..." but we didn't see the rest of it.
The annoying "The US is like this, but the UK is like this!" bits seem confined to Jane Epsenson scripts, so didn't overwhelm as much as I thought. They also seem to have dropped the "Torchwood" badass stinger lines at the end, thank goodness.
I'm really not buying Rex as the guy everyone falls for, what with him being a complete jackass, without the wit and charm to defuse it.
The science is best not talked about, but that's fine for this type of show.
The time frame and how people are reacting seems all off to me, but I think they are keeping it vague so as not to allow people to criticize it.
At this point, the "do they really have an explanation that makes sense for this" factor is pretty much the only thing worth watching for, although given that Lost and BSG both got to that point and failed utterly, I'm not hopeful. (And those had much stronger bases to build from.)
I still like Bill Pullman and Lauren Ambrose, even if I would much rather watch these characters in a better show. Arlene Tur was awesome, too.
I am curious how they are going to pull off a grand reveal of the evil aliens behind it all, because right now there seems to be very little to make this plot make sense.
If it was a complete mystery, and we were just dealing with how people reacted, it would be better. Things like the soulless and Dead is Dead cult would be interesting, but we clearly aren't going to spend any time exploring them. I did notice a scroll on one of the news broadcasts that looked like it was saying "death in southeast asia disproves..." but we didn't see the rest of it.
The annoying "The US is like this, but the UK is like this!" bits seem confined to Jane Epsenson scripts, so didn't overwhelm as much as I thought. They also seem to have dropped the "Torchwood" badass stinger lines at the end, thank goodness.
I'm really not buying Rex as the guy everyone falls for, what with him being a complete jackass, without the wit and charm to defuse it.
The science is best not talked about, but that's fine for this type of show.
The time frame and how people are reacting seems all off to me, but I think they are keeping it vague so as not to allow people to criticize it.
At this point, the "do they really have an explanation that makes sense for this" factor is pretty much the only thing worth watching for, although given that Lost and BSG both got to that point and failed utterly, I'm not hopeful. (And those had much stronger bases to build from.)
