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I liked this episode - one of the best so far. It was cool seeing the bloke off the milk advert as a slathering scary cannibal, and I liked the lovely bleak setting and the siege tension they built up. Could do without the 10 minutes of oh-so-amusing banter between the torchwood team at the start, though.
I quite like the fact the sexuality is fucked. It really does lend a darker edge, and the homo stuff is cool in my book - the more exploration/exposure to alternative sexualities we get in mainstream stuff like this the better (although I do think that Owen is a reppellant toad, and that Gwen is off her head to find him anything approaching attratcive).
 
"It makes me happy" = :cool:

Almost good enough to make up for the rest of the episode which was moderately pants. The underlying plot / character interacttions would put soap opera writiers to shame. :(
 
llantwit said:
I quite like the fact the sexuality is fucked. It really does lend a darker edge, and the homo stuff is cool in my book - the more exploration/exposure to alternative sexualities we get in mainstream stuff like this the better [...]
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I agree, in theory, but the vehicle of Owen's secretive borderline rapes and your average lesbo voyeurism just aren't cutting it for me. 2/10, must try harder.
 
LOL the cannibal woman with the shotgun was played by a cousin of mine :cool:

I didnt recognise her as I havent seen her since i was nipper, my brawd had to ring and tell me.
 
Given it a go on several occasions now, and it's just rubbish. :(

Was really looking forward to it, but it leaves me cold.

Shame. :(
 
Owen was definitely a borderline rapisto in the episode with the spray, but I didn't get that from the cannibal episode at all. They were both into it. Dirty buggers.

(Whyyyyy would she fancy Owen when Jack's there all on a plate for her. Silly mare.)
 
zoooo said:
Owen was definitely a borderline rapisto in the episode with the spray, but I didn't get that from the cannibal episode at all. They were both into it. Dirty buggers.

(Whyyyyy would she fancy Owen when Jack's there all on a plate for her. Silly mare.)
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maybe he used the date-rape drug on her
 
Griff said:
Given it a go on several occasions now, and it's just rubbish. :(
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I probably wouldn't put it that strongly, but it's been very disappointing. I kind of liked the first episode and the Cyberwoman ep was fun but everything else has just been a bit mediocre. The acting isn't much cop, most of the characters are unengaging and the storylines aren't much better. The idea to have a village-full of Welsh cannibals could have been brilliant - unfortunately, it was just one long homage to everything similar that's been created in film over the last 30 years (Texas Chainsaw to Wolf Creek).

I'll keep watching in hope it gets better.
 
zoooo said:
Owen was definitely a borderline rapisto in the episode with the spray, but I didn't get that from the cannibal episode at all. They were both into it. Dirty buggers.

(Whyyyyy would she fancy Owen when Jack's there all on a plate for her. Silly mare.)
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Well, she needed someone to talk to, and share things with.

And Jack hasn't pushed her up against a tree yet. :eek: :D
 
Well another dose of girl-on-girl action tonight... :D

And Christina Cole looked very sexy in it.

But otherwise not the greatest episode I don't think...
 
I know the internet password need to be in every episode and advert 12 times but why woudnt a top secret organisation like torchwood at least star it out like every other system in the world?
 
It's really not very good is it? Still, the latest Deadwood disc arrived in the post today, so I shall settle down and watch how good television should be. It isn't so much that Torchwood is bad, more the continual BBC self-aggrandizement that surrounds it that really sticks in the craw.
 
It's... alright. It lacks the subtlety(!) of Russell T Davies's Doctor Who; characters are in the habit of stating what their emotional state is, often in horrible purple prose, rather than allowing the actors to carry it across to the audience with their, um, acting. Between that and the polished look of the thing, it's actually more reminiscent of an ITV drama than anything the Beeb puts out.

This coming Sunday's episode is pretty good (hooray for preview discs!); there's some interesting info on the whole Jack-should-be-dead-but-isn't thing, and there's a nicely twisted idea at its core. And I won't deny that seeing Tosh lez up in the last one was entertaining - but the writers really need to get their act together. Also, the morality of the series is a bit skew-wiff:

"Torchwood. Above and beyond the United Nations. Protecting the world by distracting invading aliens from conquest by snogging them instead, while helping fairies deliver vigilante justice to elderly rapists and kiddie-fiddlers."

SG
 
Bob_the_lost said:
"It makes me happy" = :cool:

Almost good enough to make up for the rest of the episode which was moderately pants. The underlying plot / character interacttions would put soap opera writiers to shame. :(
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I like that though, I've watched all of them on download over the last week or so and I like it precisely because it's a mixture between Corrie and Doctor Who with a bit of some racy C4 series lobbed in. I think there has been a few crap endings, but as daft telly goes - I like it a lot. It's been a bit more effective than some Doctor Who for me. I also like the dark edge, in that Gwen is a dodgy heroinne in that her sexual morals are questionable, Owen is a seriously wierd bloke who reminds me of someone in real life, Tosh is, well fairly normal apart from snogging aliens and the other guy is dealing with a whole cyberwoman wierdness thing that is an excellent metaphor for keeping a relationship going after you realise you don't actually love the person anymore or something like that.

And then Jack. In love with a pensioner and with some really wierd stuff about being dead - there is something dark as burnt toast in his past for sure.

Yay! crap telly!

All I watch is Torchwood and QI - that's it :)
 
Like it. But it's not a patch on the original Torchwood.

Ultraviolet, feat, another Jack. Davenport.

Deserved a second series at the very least.
 
I still like it, its good sunday night telly i have to say i have a crush on Owen:oops: then again i thought he was cute as Mr. Guppy too:cool:
 
I enjoyed last nights episode, best yet IMO.

Does anyone know what the tune that was playing at the end was? I recognize it, but can't quite put my finger on it....
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
I enjoyed last nights episode, best yet IMO.

Does anyone know what the tune that was playing at the end was? I recognize it, but can't quite put my finger on it....
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Gorecki by Lamb. :)

Damn, they do use some good music in this show don't they?
 
fudgefactorfive said:
The sexuality in this series is fucked.
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That's one of the main points, innit.

Jack's lived in the future where there is no longer sexuality - he sees our times as prehistoric, sexuality wise.

It's one of the cleverer bits about Torchwood, imo.
 
reminds me of the doctor who books ... every one is trying to be so on edge sexual and dark that the whole thing feels turgid

i want my doctor who and spin offs to be freindly and crapish

i would have much perfered to see a unit based spin off .... you could use a lot of the same charactors but be more routed in the doctor who mythos

bring back the brig
 
Torchwoods starting to piss me off a bit. It this big secret organisation yet every fucker knows about it including every cop in Cardiff except Gwen when before she joined. Lets pick the thickest cop in town to protect the earth.
 
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