Torchwood!!

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UPDATED: Sunday, April 13, 2008 15:37
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OPTIMUS1998

Saturday, February 9, 2008 10:11 PM

I've been watching WAY to much torchwood lately.
i'm starting to use some of Gwen's inflections, and enunciations.
I'm From Ohio(Usa) i've never even been to the uk, and i'm effecting a welsh accent from watching a tv show.

oi...

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BLACKADDER7

Monday, February 11, 2008 7:12 PM

My first crack at a Torchwood music video. Have gotten some good input on it so far, would like to see what ppl here think and will take any and all suggestions for improvement.

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MYGOODEYE

Sunday, February 17, 2008 4:40 PM

ive tried and tried with Torchwood but i just cant watch it. i love John Barrowman, but like Doctor Who i just cant get past the plots sorry!

IMNOTHERE

Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:48 PM

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Originally posted by mygoodeye:
ive tried and tried with Torchwood but i just cant watch it. i love John Barrowman, but like Doctor Who i just cant get past the plots sorry!

Doctor Who is like Marmite ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite) - it may be hard to love if you didn't grow up with it.

Its also a rather unusual half-way-house between kids TV and adults TV. It has always had a certain pantomime element to it (and since Russel T Davis revived it its been more camp than Skegness in August

)

In Doctor Who, I can accept the occasional plot involving man-with-evil-laugh reviving a giant evil monster then acting all surprised when he's the first one to get squished. I could even forgive the cyberwoman with nice little high-heeled cyberboots and oh-so-convenient cyberbikini if there were kiddies watching who might be traumatised by some horrific melding of flesh and machine or (horror of horrors) a nipple!

Torchwood, however, is supposed to be adult and dark and gritty and sexy - which is rather hard to do while maintaining coninuity with an escapist camp fantasy (and there's a big important gulf between "camp" and "homo-erotic").

What it needs is some script doctoring by someone with experience of producing a darker, more adult spinoff from a show aimed mainly at teens.

If only someone like that existed...

CRUITHNE3753

Friday, March 21, 2008 1:26 AM

Watching the episode "From Out of the Rain"...

For some reason I was expecting the line "Hello Dave... you're my wife now!" at some point...

IMPERATODD

Saturday, April 12, 2008 5:07 PM

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Originally posted by Calhoun:
I like torchwood too, I just wish there was a little less blatant homosexuality.. and making James Marsters kiss a man...

I know i'm gunna get flamed by the homo-sensitive types out there but we heterosexuals are still the majority and majority rules!

Whats wrong with a gay role model, or even a hero? There are few if any gay characters in the media that are not asexual and sterilized. Let Jack be a sexual being and be unapologetic about it. There are many gay young people who are taught that what they are is wrong, and to see if only for a little while that it isn't can make a world of difference for them. I respect your opinion but I disagree, hetero's have 99.9% of the media let others have a show where the gay characters aren't a walking joke, a stereotype, or a caricature of what a person is.

ROCKETJOCK

Saturday, April 12, 2008 5:35 PM

I had a little trouble with the omnipresent multi-directional sexuality of the series at first-- I have no problem with gay characters per se, but it seemed a little against odds that every member of the Torchwood team (as of the series opener,) was bisexual. Then it was revealed that Jack had recruited each one, and suddenly it made sense. Nice set of Gaydar, Cap'n. (Gwen, who literally walked in off the street didn't undergo Jack's screening process)

I have a lot more problems with story illogic, for example, (recent episode spoilers follow):

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Although I can accept that Owen, being an animate corpse, no longer needs to breathe, and probably no longer has the breathing reflex, he obviously still has the capacity to inhale and exhale to some extent. Why? Because he's capable of audible speech, including deep sighs (which are nothing but an exhilation). So why couldn't he perform mouth-to mouth on the dying guy? Hell, it'd probably be more effective than an ordinary human, as Owen wouldn't be using up any of the oxygen in the air!

Another example: In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (an otherwise excellent episode)

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the time warp at the end sends the entire group back to the exact moment that Captain John arrived in Cardiff, and they happen to be at the same spot where he arrived. So where is the earlier version of Captian John, not to mention the mugger and his victim? If they arrived earlier, the rubble of their arrival should have been present during the first scene; if they arrived later, then the mugger's corpse should be present.

Multiple episodes are full of logic gaps like that. It hasn't dissuaded me from watching yet, but I'm beginning to get tired of lazy writing.

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IMNOTHERE

Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:37 PM

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Originally posted by RocketJock:
but it seemed a little against odds that every member of the Torchwood team (as of the series opener,) was bisexual.

Not sure that's even true: Ianto and Jack sure, but Gwen and Owen both had pheromone-induced "incidents" but have shown no other signs of being bi- and Tosh fell victim to a manipulative alien who, as a mind reader, could exploit her vulnerabilities and know exactly what... buttons... to... push........ (I'll be in my bunk).

However, Jack (the character) isn't supposed to be gay in the conventional sense - he was introduced in 'Who as being from a future, cosmospolitan society in which gender - or even species - is simply not an issue in relationships. If he has surrounded himself with a team who are, at least, open minded it may simple be because he associates that with the necessary openness to new ideas demanded by the job. (although it does seem that the main qualification for being a Time Agent is a hyperactive libido).

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