Torchwood: Miracle Day
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Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
Now your getting it, the massive questions about how and why are just glossed over or tackled badly and there is loads of filler that was pointless.
The difference being it didn't affect how much I enjoyed the show... whereas something like "lost" lost me after the first few episodes when it became clear that it was never gonna end.
I guess I don't always expect a tv series to tie up all loose ends and explain every detail... as long as the story continues to grip me and I enjoy each individual episode for what it is.
I guess I don't always expect a tv series to tie up all loose ends and explain every detail... as long as the story continues to grip me and I enjoy each individual episode for what it is.
Stigmata
sexual tyrannosaurus
If I was to rate this series i'd give it a C or thereabouts, but I still hope they get another shot at it. All of Torchwood's flaws are forgiveable, except for being dull which it was at times during this run. I hope RTD et al take it on board that a longer series isn't necessarily a good thing and come up with something a bit more refined. And no more sideplots about Gwen's boring family- that's another idea they pinched off 24 and it was rubbish on that show too.
Termite Man
zombie flesh eater
I've just thought of a good example of how I think the flashbacks should have been done 
they should have been done in a similar way to the how the highlander flashbacks were done. That would have been much better and they could have 2 different times for filler and develop Angelo (or whatever the lover was called) as a better character.
they should have been done in a similar way to the how the highlander flashbacks were done. That would have been much better and they could have 2 different times for filler and develop Angelo (or whatever the lover was called) as a better character.
strung out
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intense in a kind of teenage 'woah that is so intense man' way. it just wasn't believable.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
TOp TiP!!1! It made a lot more sense when you replaced 'bleh, bleh bleh the blessing' with 'bleh, bleh bleh brian blessed'
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
you made me laugh.
Augie March
blahem
I'm thinking that the whole series was a parable about suicide bombers, judging by the amount of times people blew themselves up in it.
I'll have you know I ditched this post just over halfway through and I was right to do so...
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
finally caught up with this last night, and, mmm, well it was rubbish wasn't it? None of it really made coherent sense, there were clear issues with the two production companies having different styles, pacing etc. But it was largely entertaining tosh too, with enough good bits to get by. I was surprised at who survived in the end, tho it would have been better to keep Charlotte in another series. That Danes topped himself whilst proudly exclaiming his continued paedophilia was marvellous.
If they do do a follow up series, they really should work out the plot properly tho.
If they do do a follow up series, they really should work out the plot properly tho.
strung out
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from what i hear, RTD isn't banking on another series. i agree with you btw, entertaining rubbish.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Yeah - entertaining tosh, not great, full of holes but it kept me interested, more or less. And I thought Bill Pullman was very good.
Stigmata
sexual tyrannosaurus
His mad ranting was a definite highlight
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I finally got a chance to watch the rest, and I really enjoyed it; I'm kinda glad now that I wasn't reading along with thread.
What I liked most about it was the same as with CoE: the fairly realistic depictions of how a world would cope with this kind of change. How some people would be bastards because they're just doing their job, how some horrible decisions would be made because the alternative was worse, how it would affect the global economy, that sort of thing. Some scifi shows seem to have amazing things happen in a bubble of main characters while the world carries on like normal outside, and this show shows the world outside the bubble.
Termite Man has a good solution to the flashback sequence - what made it boring really was having a third of an episode dedicated to it. It still could have been a lot shorter.
Answering the questions that were listed on the previous page (I copied them, but they copied as a picture for some reason, so I can't write in between each question):
The stuff being sent to Rex's phone at just the right moment, dramatically: yeah, that's a bit crap, but it's not some random guy texting him - it's that they finally retrieved the stuff after the explosion.
The three families could have continued living like aristocracy in a world of much 'better' people where they and they alone had control over who lived and died. What do you give to a man who's got everything and still wants more? Power over life and death for the entire world. I don't see that as implausible at all. ABSOLUTE POWER!!!
I have no answer about Danes. That didn't make any sense, I agree. The only explanations I can think of are too fan-wanky. I think he was there for Jack to have another child-killer to emote with.
The families had basically experimented on the blessing (Jack's words) using Jack's blood. It's feasible that they'd know how to stop the blessing if they chose to.
The death camps helped the families by getting rid of, well, the dead, which had to be done at some point (at least for the actually dead, rather than really ill), and changing people's whole way of thinking about what 'life' means, and exerting control. Once you've conceded to sending grandpa off to be burnt alive you're going to be more likely to do other things that you previously considered wrong.
Stockpiling painkillers would be a lot, in a world with unending pain and no death, but they owned a pharmaceutical company and had enough money and influence to own a lot of others, so that was probably just an example of one of many things they already owned. Also, they had control of the blessing.
The director of the CIA not being in a particular CIA office all the time does make sense. Why would he be there all the time? He's the director of the CIA, not that field office - and he only came in when the man responsible for that office 'died.'
What I liked most about it was the same as with CoE: the fairly realistic depictions of how a world would cope with this kind of change. How some people would be bastards because they're just doing their job, how some horrible decisions would be made because the alternative was worse, how it would affect the global economy, that sort of thing. Some scifi shows seem to have amazing things happen in a bubble of main characters while the world carries on like normal outside, and this show shows the world outside the bubble.
Termite Man has a good solution to the flashback sequence - what made it boring really was having a third of an episode dedicated to it. It still could have been a lot shorter.
Answering the questions that were listed on the previous page (I copied them, but they copied as a picture for some reason, so I can't write in between each question):
The stuff being sent to Rex's phone at just the right moment, dramatically: yeah, that's a bit crap, but it's not some random guy texting him - it's that they finally retrieved the stuff after the explosion.
The three families could have continued living like aristocracy in a world of much 'better' people where they and they alone had control over who lived and died. What do you give to a man who's got everything and still wants more? Power over life and death for the entire world. I don't see that as implausible at all. ABSOLUTE POWER!!!
I have no answer about Danes. That didn't make any sense, I agree. The only explanations I can think of are too fan-wanky. I think he was there for Jack to have another child-killer to emote with.
The families had basically experimented on the blessing (Jack's words) using Jack's blood. It's feasible that they'd know how to stop the blessing if they chose to.
The death camps helped the families by getting rid of, well, the dead, which had to be done at some point (at least for the actually dead, rather than really ill), and changing people's whole way of thinking about what 'life' means, and exerting control. Once you've conceded to sending grandpa off to be burnt alive you're going to be more likely to do other things that you previously considered wrong.
Stockpiling painkillers would be a lot, in a world with unending pain and no death, but they owned a pharmaceutical company and had enough money and influence to own a lot of others, so that was probably just an example of one of many things they already owned. Also, they had control of the blessing.
The director of the CIA not being in a particular CIA office all the time does make sense. Why would he be there all the time? He's the director of the CIA, not that field office - and he only came in when the man responsible for that office 'died.'
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I liked that they didn't redeem him. I'm fed up of really bad guys being redeemed by one final good act, as if it counted more than all the rest. He'd seen hell and wanted to go there because all the bad girls were there.
But I've always liked him as an actor since loving Spaceballs as a kid.
Augie March
blahem
It was a high point for him, which only adds to the disappointment that he was mostly wasted because the writers didn't seem to know what to do with him half the time.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I see RTD still hasn't got past using 'what' as a substitute for closing dialogue
RTD isn't writing this series.
Pseudopsycho
I ate all your bees
at least he's not put "lol! Wut?" as the final words yetI see RTD still hasn't got past using 'what' as a substitute for closing dialogue
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I liked that they didn't redeem him. I'm fed up of really bad guys being redeemed by one final good act, as if it counted more than all the rest. He'd seen hell and wanted to go there because all the bad girls were there.
But I've always liked him as an actor since loving Spaceballs as a kid.
Omg I saw Spaceballs last week and never put two and two together.
He's so different now.
Augie March
blahem
Badly written and mostly superfluous pretty much sums up the whole series really.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
he has stopped his career for now
fair play to him, hope his partner gets better
http://sciencefiction.com/2011/12/0...-career-on-hold-is-this-the-end-of-torchwood/
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I didn't even know there was such a thing as brain cancer. Hope his man is alright. People like to hate on RTD but I think he still did the business when on form and could do again if personal tragedy doesn't keep him out of the game
