torchwood

[FabricLiveBaby!]

what the hell was all that about the stopwatch between Captain Cack and Ianto last night? Is it a gay thing?

.... I think it may well be.

 

[zoooo]

It was the gayest gay thing evah.

I just wish they'd show the gayest gay things - just like they show the lesbianic lesbian things EVERY week.

Tut.

 

[fudgefactorfive]

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.

aye, I like the post-gay stuff, but when I said sexuality I didn't mean sexual orientation or polarity. I meant sexuality - what people find sexy, how they are sexy. It's all being rammed up against trees, men telling women what they really want, aggressive lesbians telling women what they really want and then being hyperspaced into a stellar core, snatched kisses from the emotionally vulnerable ... Male sexuality towards women is all about domination and taking control. Female sexuality towards men is all coyness and pining. Female to female is yer standard tragic vamp who seduces heteroid women with devastating effects and then self-destructs. Male sexuality towards men is all off-screen nudging and winking, it's all lip service and no trousers.

2/10, must try harder.

 

[CNT36]

They are trying to hard already just comes across as totally contrived bollocks. Theres been couple of times where its worked the rest of the time it just seems tagged on for the sake of reminding the viewer that its an edgy series and not just aliens.

 

[Reno]

aye, I like the post-gay stuff, but when I said sexuality I didn't mean sexual orientation or polarity. I meant sexuality - what people find sexy, how they are sexy. It's all being rammed up against trees, men telling women what they really want, aggressive lesbians telling women what they really want and then being hyperspaced into a stellar core, snatched kisses from the emotionally vulnerable ... Male sexuality towards women is all about domination and taking control. Female sexuality towards men is all coyness and pining. Female to female is yer standard tragic vamp who seduces heteroid women with devastating effects and then self-destructs. Male sexuality towards men is all off-screen nudging and winking, it's all lip service and no trousers.

2/10, must try harder.

Doesn't help that this has the least sexy cast since Last Of The Summer Wine and that Captain Jack is about as charismatic as a shop window dummy.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

I liked this week's episode. Disapointing lack of aliens yet again, but still good.

 

[DotCommunist]

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

Harumph

Dr.Who books are brilliant, especially the seventh doctors adventures concerning the land of fiction.
And if you actually watch Sylvester Mcoys adventures you'll see that he was very on edge and dark. The one where he goes to the planet where happiness is mandatory and sadness punishable by death is a case in point.

 

[aqua]

last nights was shit

 

[Biffo]

last nights was shit

By far and away the worst. VERY BBC Wales-type low quality fair. Thought last week's with Suzie was q good though.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Last nights was.....odd. I just didn't see the point of it really

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I really liked last night.

It was a little like the Dr. Who episode with the absorbalof. Same kind of thing. Quite enjoyed it. Boyfriend didn't like the ending.

 

[fudgefactorfive]

I really liked last night.

It was a little like the Dr. Who episode with the absorbalof. Same kind of thing. Quite enjoyed it. Boyfriend didn't like the ending.

same actor - similar character - same storytelling technique. Total rip-off.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

was it the same actor????

I mentioned it to Dr Who nerd of a boyfreind but he said it was a different bloke.

::Wanders off into google::

 

[fudgefactorfive]

Aye ... wasn't it Paul Chequer from Sinchronicity? Can't find a cast list for the Torchwood ep though.

 

[Augie March]

Wasn't he in that As If show that used to be on C4?

Best ep of Torchwood so far IMO.

 

[fudgefactorfive]

I think I'm wrong - the Doctor Who guy was a different actor. You can see why I got them mixed up though ...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

IIt was a little like the Dr. Who episode with the absorbalof

That was the worst episode of the entire series

 

[CNT36]

Yeah I was thinking that it was a rip off of the absorbaloff episode and that the ending was utter shit. They have already recycled a couple of doctor who scripts and added swearing and sex. The first episode especially.

 

[onenameshelley]

i liked it but i quite like positive endings these days. Still a rampaging face eating alien is probably needed at this point.

 

[pk]

It was almost identical to that Dr Who one where the guy retraces his movements.

And it was shite too - no aliens.

He was the actor who was dating the eternally moody face-like-a-slapped-arse minger Sooz in that student drama "As If".

 

[wishface]

This is still the worst show on telly.

It's not even as good as Lexx!

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

It's not even as good as Lexx!

LEXX WAS THE BEST!

 

[Jim2k5]

watched this again on sunday, had the ep with the welsh blode from grownups in it. and my god, i thought it might get better, if anything i think it has to have gotten worse.

 

[gnoriac]

The cannibals one's been the best so far imho, but even then it wasn't great. very disappointed so far.

 

[gnoriac]

They have already recycled a couple of doctor who scripts and added swearing and sex.

Here's hoping they rip off the Sound of Music at some stage.

 

[agricola]

That was absolutely appalling, by far the worst in the series. What was the story again?

 

[fudgefactorfive]

i actually felt physically sick

 

[Error Gorilla]

Why would the 1950s refugees be impressed by a pair of automatic doors at the local Tesco, but seemingly not when they'd presumably been driven from the remote airfield to the urban wonders of the capital of Wales in an adapted Range Rover covered in more tacky neon lights and plasma screens and bleeding edge technology than you could point a startled Woodbine-clamping hand at?

And apparently they didn't raise an eyebrow at the alien wonders of the Torchwood headquarters, but were jitter-bugging down the aisles at the opportunity purchase a twelve pack of mini Milky Ways and liquid mascara. Thank fuck Gwen didn't produce her reward card at the till or they'd have passed out at the shock.

Also, where has Gwen's chump of a boyfriend been of late? Why is the boring admin guy - you know, the one that nearly killed them all through the small matter of being so staggeringly stupid he thought bringing a Cyberwoman into their lair and then pointed a gun at his boss (the same boss who it was subsequently hinted he's having sex with) was a good idea - still employed there when he's clearly ever so slightly untrustworthy? You'd assume that in order to be part of an ultra-secretive underground organisation operating above and beyond the reach of democracy and the law there'd by a little more onus on recruiting staff that aren't staggeringly stupid and demonstrate piss poor judgement at nearly every opportunity.

 

[belboid]

You missed one central question out there.

Why the fuck would anyone wany to shag the charmless dumboy Owen? Let alone fall madly in love with him in a couple of days.

 

[dylanredefined]

He is a doctor the white coat covers up an awful lot of personality flaws .