Torchwood torched
[Spoilers]
I have been watching the BBC's Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood since it started in October 2006 but have been disappointed by the lack of originality of its plots and themes as well as the unsympathetic and downright incompetent characters. It is suffering from "First Season-itis" and has to introduce the main characters and the series milieu but we have gone from Character of the Week (Cyberwoman, Small Worlds, Greeks Bearing Gifts), to Device of the Week (Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts) via rip-offs of The X-Files (Day One, Small Worlds) culminating in the downright dreadful (Countrycide, Random Shoes).
The only episode I really liked, against my will, is They Keep Killing Suzie which was strong on acting & relationships between the characters, although perhaps Suzie was too clever for Torchwood's good.
For a more articulate and academic dissection of the series, the Feeling Listless blog is the one to beat. Whatever would we do without Screen Studies graduates?
Does anyone else think there is a continuity error for Naoko Mori's character, Toshiko Sato? In the 9th Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston) episode, "Aliens of London", she appears to be a medical doctor examining the crashed UFO's pig pilot, whereas in Torchwood, she is a computer / communications / hardware expert.
If anyone from Torchwood should have been examining the pig, it should really have been the job of Burn Gorman's character, Owen Harper.
However, the last three episodes of the first series (spoilers) could end it on a high.
I have been watching the BBC's Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood since it started in October 2006 but have been disappointed by the lack of originality of its plots and themes as well as the unsympathetic and downright incompetent characters. It is suffering from "First Season-itis" and has to introduce the main characters and the series milieu but we have gone from Character of the Week (Cyberwoman, Small Worlds, Greeks Bearing Gifts), to Device of the Week (Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts) via rip-offs of The X-Files (Day One, Small Worlds) culminating in the downright dreadful (Countrycide, Random Shoes).
The only episode I really liked, against my will, is They Keep Killing Suzie which was strong on acting & relationships between the characters, although perhaps Suzie was too clever for Torchwood's good.
For a more articulate and academic dissection of the series, the Feeling Listless blog is the one to beat. Whatever would we do without Screen Studies graduates?
Does anyone else think there is a continuity error for Naoko Mori's character, Toshiko Sato? In the 9th Doctor Who (Christopher Eccleston) episode, "Aliens of London", she appears to be a medical doctor examining the crashed UFO's pig pilot, whereas in Torchwood, she is a computer / communications / hardware expert.
If anyone from Torchwood should have been examining the pig, it should really have been the job of Burn Gorman's character, Owen Harper.
However, the last three episodes of the first series (spoilers) could end it on a high.
posted by Iconochasm at 6:09 pm
1 Comments:
Thank you so much for the link.
The Tosh issue is an iteration of the perenial Star Trek personnel problem. In the opening episode of Classic Trek, Sulu was obviously a science officer but later went to the helm. In The Next Generation, Geordi was variously at the helm and science stations before finally finding his way down to engineering - Worf wasn't the security officer until the second series too and would often be at the helm. O'Brien was all over the shop until he ended up in the transporter room.
Does Tosh actually do anything particularly medical in Aliens of London (ages since I've watched it)?
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