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Jul. 11th, 2009 03:05 amWell, Torchwood was interesting. (Doing this obliquely enough that spoilers should be minimal, but avoid if necessary.)
It was a great story, told in a fascinating way, etc. etc., but on a more base sense, it just wasn't entertaining. I've got no desire to watch that again, unlike with the other episodes in the series. As intellectually intriguing as that may have been, and though the first part had a nice balance of the normal human interaction/humor/alien fighting sci-fi, the rest were just too damn depressing. I don't enjoy crying through large portions of a show, I don't enjoy such utter and irreconcilable destruction of characters, and I don't like it when characters we're supposed to like get vilified. It's a strange thing when the character that came across to me the best at the end of that show was Gwen. I'm not sure if I really am liking her more or if it's just that she was the only sympathetic one at the end (prolly half and half, I think). The way they presented the running at the very end left no possibility of redemption or hope or anything, just cowardice (see vilification above).
Some random bits: Rupesh Patanjali (looked this up to check and turns out I spelled it right on the first try, ace) should have hung around longer. He was prettyboycute. And Alice Carter and Agent Johnson pinged my femslashdar--there had to be a pretty good connection for Alice to be able to convince Johnson like that, though the situation was already so sketchy that it probably didn't take a whole lot to make her really examine which side she was supposed to be on.
It was a great story, told in a fascinating way, etc. etc., but on a more base sense, it just wasn't entertaining. I've got no desire to watch that again, unlike with the other episodes in the series. As intellectually intriguing as that may have been, and though the first part had a nice balance of the normal human interaction/humor/alien fighting sci-fi, the rest were just too damn depressing. I don't enjoy crying through large portions of a show, I don't enjoy such utter and irreconcilable destruction of characters, and I don't like it when characters we're supposed to like get vilified. It's a strange thing when the character that came across to me the best at the end of that show was Gwen. I'm not sure if I really am liking her more or if it's just that she was the only sympathetic one at the end (prolly half and half, I think). The way they presented the running at the very end left no possibility of redemption or hope or anything, just cowardice (see vilification above).
Some random bits: Rupesh Patanjali (looked this up to check and turns out I spelled it right on the first try, ace) should have hung around longer. He was prettyboycute. And Alice Carter and Agent Johnson pinged my femslashdar--there had to be a pretty good connection for Alice to be able to convince Johnson like that, though the situation was already so sketchy that it probably didn't take a whole lot to make her really examine which side she was supposed to be on.
