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Anyone watching it.. Its alreet and more adult than Dr Who.. which means blood and minor lady nakedness 🙂
Finally got around to watching the first two episodes. I rather like it – not fantastic, but it’s always going to be tricky to set the scene and build the characters early on.
I’ll keep watching for the moment.
There’s some good one-liners that make me laugh.
Sorry to resurect an old thread but i just watched the last 2 episodes and thought they were fuckin’ brilliant!….. saw a couple of the earlier shows and they were bollox.. but i thought id give it a chance, glad i did!! 🙂
I’m sorry to disagree with most people here (well not really that sorry) but I think Torchwood is pretty awful. Having said that I watch it with the wife and just take the piss out of it (and she’s coming around to my way of thinking, dammnit!). Here’s what you can expect each week in Torchwood, which you could use as a basis for a drinking game although I fear you may get liver failure if you do:
1 – Captain Jack walking quickly down a corridor, flanked by the rest of the team as he gives commands with some urgency.
2 – Gwen having to make an emmotional decision between doing what’s right for her concience or right for Torchwood.
3 – A gay scene
4 – The team pointing guns at people and looking more scared than the person they’re pointing them at.
5 – Plot holes the size of Switzerland
6 – People saying “The darkness is coming” or “It’s coming out of the darkness”
7 – A Cardiff with virtually no Welsh people
8 – Finding out some even more ‘mysterious’ stuff about Captain Jack (who incidentally was calling himself Captain Jack before the Cardiff blitz according to the Dr Who episode when we first meet him).
Also, in the episode where Captain Jack met Captain Jack and had a dance and a little kiss, back in 1941 homosexuality was a crime, so he’d probably have been thrown out of the airforce at the very least.
*Note to Wolf and Insane: If either of you get thrown back in time prior to 1967, don’t snog another man in broad daylight or you may face going to prison.
God, I’m becoming a right miserable git, and a bit of a pedant too.
Anyway, I brought the old BBC TV series ‘Day of the Triffids’ and watched it over Xmas and it was ace. Good, solid drama (with ropey effects) with a great cast.
i am still trying to make my mind up about this – some of the eps are really really terrible though some are good (and a bit x-filey)
they seem to be trying to big up the drama well before we give a toss about the characters
most sci fi series take a few seasons to find their stride so fingers crossed it will get better
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