Well, I keep watching Torchwood every week in the hope that it might improve. Last week’s effort (Small Worlds) wasn’t too bad, but last night’s episode (Countrycide) was simply laughable. The plot holes could have had a truck driven through them, and the climatic standoff between Gwen, Owen, the psycho and the bent copper was – well, utterly ridiculous. And this was episode 6 in the series. I’m beginning to lose my patience.
Torchwood Guttering
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3 responses to “Torchwood Guttering”
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Some days it seems that everything that Russell T Davies has written after the first series of <em>Queer as Folk</em> has been truly awful. With Torchwood and the new Dr Who, the attention span of the writers seems to be considerably shorter than the duration of a single episode, there’s an ill-conceived projection of current cultural concerns into the past, and the way to indicate any heightening of the dramatic tension seems to be to have people shouting and running up and down corridors to bangy music. If that wasn’t bad enough, the BBC adds insult to injury by having any mention of Torchwood and Dr Who, in any of its media properties, be absurdly triumphalist. This whole system of dumbing town and talking up makes me want to vomit. There, I feel better now.
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Gerard, you have my sympathy. I so wanted Torchwood to succeed, hence my disappointment is all the greater. I do think that the reinvention of Doctor Who by Davies has, on the whole, worked very well. Episodes such as Father’s Day, School Reunion and the Doctor Dances have given me much pleasure. And there were motifs and plot elements that spanned the series and beyond. So in that sense I would have to consider myself pleased with the reinvention. I suppose that’s also part of what makes Torchwood such a let-down.
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