Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
That said, the actress who plays Gwens first role in the whoniverse was as a servant - referenced in the last episode of the last series of Doctor Who.
torchwood
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That said, the actress who plays Gwens first role in the whoniverse was as a servant - referenced in the last episode of the last series of Doctor Who.
fogbat
The Talibum
Your Filipino-American friend has failed to realise that it was mocking those who hire servants, and not Filipinos.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
I enjoyed it 
Hardly watch any tv but will def try to remember to watch this every night.
Hardly watch any tv but will def try to remember to watch this every night.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Why is a children's TV programme on at 9 oclock in the evening? 
fogbat
The Talibum
Why is a children's TV programme on at 9 oclock in the evening?
Torchwood was always supposed to be the "grown up" spin-off of Doctor Who.
Sadly "grown up" basically meant crap teenage references to shagging.
Strumpet
gypsy girl
That was great. Threw me cos I thought the same.I loved that they made us think
Rupesh would be a new member of the team, then just killed him
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Why is a children's TV programme on at 9 oclock in the evening?
This.
I don't get it.
Like I said, enjoyable nonsense on the CBBC channel, but primetime on BBC1?
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
It's in that Buffy range, isn't it; you can see it as superficial teenage nonsense or you can look a little further. It's a choice you're being offered. As this thread demonstrates, plenty of adults are engaged enough to want to look beyond the surface.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Fair enough.
I'm not one of those people who go onto a thread to slag something off for the sake of it, but I really thought it was a kids programme on at 9pm on BBC1.
I got the joke about Cardiff being the centre of an alien invasion, but there was no swearing, violence, sex or drug references. There wasn't anything that couldn't have been shown on a Saturday afternoon, which seems to be the traditional slot for a show like this.
Why was it on at 9pm? Just because of the two blokes kissing?
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I suppose we'll know by the end of the week. It might also be to do with it being intended for an adult audience.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Well, I won't give it a spin tonight, so it might suddenly turn into a fright fest during the rest of the week.
But "Are you my mummy" and "The Library" episodes of Doctor Who were far more chilling, and shown on a Saturday afternoon, than this post watershed offering.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
I never watched it on BBC Three, but wasn't there a lot of swearing, hence the post 9pm slot?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
need an alternate source to iplayer cos iplayer is being shit.
any helpers?
any helpers?
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Pacific Ocean - Why are you so intent on simplifying what is adult orientated material into sex or swearing?
It seems adult to me because it’s layered and fairly sophisticated. And becasue of who the writer is, you know, if there is sex and swearing, he included it to make sure it went out after 9.
It seems adult to me because it’s layered and fairly sophisticated. And becasue of who the writer is, you know, if there is sex and swearing, he included it to make sure it went out after 9.
Stigmata
sexual tyrannosaurus
There was a bit of swearing, plus some people getting cut open and some shooting, which would have been edited slightly for a pre-watershed slot.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
I missed the swearing and the people getting cut open was highly stylised with a magic pen - hardly the scene from Aliens.
Maybe I am being dense, but I just thought it was a summer filler for BBC1 for the week after knicking it off BBC Three.
There was no reason that it was on after the watershed.
BlueSquareThing
With chips
Think about it.
Where else in the UK could aliens walk amongst us and not be noticed, hmmm?
Norfolk.
Strumpet
gypsy girl
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Who cares! Really!If you are interested, watch it. If not, don't....innit
I want swearing goddamit after 9pm
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I want swearing goddamit after 9pm
Swearing and fucking and blood and guts!!!
The whole cast rolling around in the blood and guts while fucking and swearing and shooting guns and driving big cars and smoking!!!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Swearing and fucking and blood and guts!!!
The whole cast rolling around in the blood and guts while fucking and swearing and shooting guns and driving big cars and smoking!!!
and having buttsecks
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Swearing and fucking and blood and guts!!!
The whole cast rolling around in the blood and guts while fucking and swearing and shooting guns and driving big cars and smoking!!!
This.
Is it too much to ask for a post watershed drama?
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
8ball
Decolonise colons!
fogbat
The Talibum
. . . or I demand my license fee back!!
How about a compromise? The BBC send John Barrowman around to bum you.
Everyone's happy.
