Torchwood: Kids In The Mud
Jul. 11th, 2009 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
craigoxbrowOn the whole, I kinda liked it. (A first for Torchwood where previous series have been best used as a metric for a drinking game.)
The Who connection weakened it a bit because I knew they'd have to stop it, since the world needs to be in recognisable form to provide a backdrop for Sarah Jane series three and Who series five.
Of course, this being a British SF-horror miniseries about first contact going horrifically wrong, without the Who connection the world would have been doomed, since that's what we usually do when we set up a "the world could be doomed!" scenario...
And also there's the issue of "why doesn't the Doctor show up and sort it all out in five minutes?" Having Gwen address the Deus Ex TARDIS directly helped a little, but her theory isn't that strong, and then Jack did sort it all out in five minutes. Just with the addition of having to do an unfeasibly horrible thing that set him back to Torchwood S1 Weepy Jack again.
Peter Capaldi was great, although I did keep thinking what Malcolm Tucker would do. He'd shoot the PM when he requisitioned the gun, for starters. In the bollocks. And then swear the monsters to death.
And yay Lois and Bridget and Alice and Ianto's In-Laws and Andy and Normal People In General!
And aww, Ianto... Even despite Cyberella and the stopwatch, he was always The Torchwood Character It's Okay To Like. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
barg noted last night, he was always so nicely turned out.
Looking at it via The Writer's Tale, where RTD acknowledges the problems of his dropping out of writing the Torchwood S2 opener and that opportunity to rejig the series to live up to its potential, seeing the show he had in mind is rather interesting. If it had been a standalone series (some of his Torchwood ideas started off as a non-Whoniverse series idea before he got the Who job) it might have been stronger yet. And he probably would have written more episodes of previous series himself in a parallel universe where he wasn't knackering himself running Who.
The Who connection weakened it a bit because I knew they'd have to stop it, since the world needs to be in recognisable form to provide a backdrop for Sarah Jane series three and Who series five.
Of course, this being a British SF-horror miniseries about first contact going horrifically wrong, without the Who connection the world would have been doomed, since that's what we usually do when we set up a "the world could be doomed!" scenario...
And also there's the issue of "why doesn't the Doctor show up and sort it all out in five minutes?" Having Gwen address the Deus Ex TARDIS directly helped a little, but her theory isn't that strong, and then Jack did sort it all out in five minutes. Just with the addition of having to do an unfeasibly horrible thing that set him back to Torchwood S1 Weepy Jack again.
Peter Capaldi was great, although I did keep thinking what Malcolm Tucker would do. He'd shoot the PM when he requisitioned the gun, for starters. In the bollocks. And then swear the monsters to death.
And yay Lois and Bridget and Alice and Ianto's In-Laws and Andy and Normal People In General!
And aww, Ianto... Even despite Cyberella and the stopwatch, he was always The Torchwood Character It's Okay To Like. As
barg noted last night, he was always so nicely turned out.Looking at it via The Writer's Tale, where RTD acknowledges the problems of his dropping out of writing the Torchwood S2 opener and that opportunity to rejig the series to live up to its potential, seeing the show he had in mind is rather interesting. If it had been a standalone series (some of his Torchwood ideas started off as a non-Whoniverse series idea before he got the Who job) it might have been stronger yet. And he probably would have written more episodes of previous series himself in a parallel universe where he wasn't knackering himself running Who.
