This is what we've been waiting for???
Oct. 25th, 2006 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
martinlivingsTorchwood.
It's an anagram of Doctor Who.
Hmm.
So, what's an anagram of "Total and utter shite"?
I mean, this group's meant to have been around since Queen Victoria's time, yet they're totally clueless, unprofessional, unreliable, have no protocols or procedures whatsoever, and entirely consist of five, count 'em, five people. Everything that happens, at least in the first two episodes, happens BECAUSE of them and their own stupidity. People die because of them. Lots of people. And they show not the slightest iota of concern about this. We're meant to like these characters? At all????
This show contains the same level of illogic and bad writing as Doctor Who. The difference is, we forgive Doctor Who because, well, it's Doctor Who, and aimed at a young audience. This, on the other hand, is meant to be for adults, and as such I'd expect a certain level of sophistication and character development. How can something like this be made when there are shows like Lost, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica out there showing exactly what can be done in SF television for adults? Unnatural snappy banter and gratuitous sex and violence are no substitute for smart writing, acting and production values. They should have known better.
This show truly pisses me off. It took a semi-decent concept and turned it into something truly mindless and damn-near offensive. And everyone's going "oh wow, it's great", but what they're seeing is what they wanted to see, what they've been waiting for for a year or so. Hopefully, after a few episodes like this, they'll see that the emperor is naked, and drop it like the steaming pile of crap it is.
Oh, and Captain Jack (please, stop swooning ladies, John Barrowman is as openly gay as a floral bag stuffed full of butterflies) is genuinely pathetic in this. And I liked him in Doctor Who.
It's an anagram of Doctor Who.
Hmm.
So, what's an anagram of "Total and utter shite"?
I mean, this group's meant to have been around since Queen Victoria's time, yet they're totally clueless, unprofessional, unreliable, have no protocols or procedures whatsoever, and entirely consist of five, count 'em, five people. Everything that happens, at least in the first two episodes, happens BECAUSE of them and their own stupidity. People die because of them. Lots of people. And they show not the slightest iota of concern about this. We're meant to like these characters? At all????
This show contains the same level of illogic and bad writing as Doctor Who. The difference is, we forgive Doctor Who because, well, it's Doctor Who, and aimed at a young audience. This, on the other hand, is meant to be for adults, and as such I'd expect a certain level of sophistication and character development. How can something like this be made when there are shows like Lost, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica out there showing exactly what can be done in SF television for adults? Unnatural snappy banter and gratuitous sex and violence are no substitute for smart writing, acting and production values. They should have known better.
This show truly pisses me off. It took a semi-decent concept and turned it into something truly mindless and damn-near offensive. And everyone's going "oh wow, it's great", but what they're seeing is what they wanted to see, what they've been waiting for for a year or so. Hopefully, after a few episodes like this, they'll see that the emperor is naked, and drop it like the steaming pile of crap it is.
Oh, and Captain Jack (please, stop swooning ladies, John Barrowman is as openly gay as a floral bag stuffed full of butterflies) is genuinely pathetic in this. And I liked him in Doctor Who.
