Torchwood

[fairyd123]

Is anybody else finding Torchwood unbelievably frustrating? The potential is there but they're just not living up to it. Tonight's episode bored me to tears. They've got the time period and the leeway to produce something exciting and innovative and instead we keep getting rather dull, poorly written and very deriative episodes. Cannibal villagers, sex crazed aliens, mind reading - done to death over the course of a million and one sci-fi shows and I'm way to jaded to consider girl on girl kissing exciting, envelope pushing television.

How many more times can they shoot John Barrowman posing iconically on a rooftop before the entire enterprise lapses into parody? The writing is a serious let down. They were supposed to be writing Doctor Who for adults and instead we have a weird mix of creaking old sci-fi storylines sitting very uneasily with sex driven storylines. And somebody give John Barrowman more than 6 lines for christ's sake!

So far its been incredibly disappointing - and I'm not holding out a lot of hope that its going to improve any time soon.

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[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

I like Jack's hardline approach and am down with the sex and violence but I'm just not that impressed with the whole package. I like Jack, like Gwen and was surprised at how quickly Owen grew on him. I find Ianto and Tosh to be deadweight but that's just me. It just pains me that I found myself saying "god this is dull" out loud during today's ep. I spoke to my father earlier (world's biggest Doctor Who fan - he raised me on the show) and he thinks the show is dire -its very much amateur night as far as he's concerned. They've got the makings of an engaging cast and a great concept but so far I just think the writing is pretty poor. It's as deriative as Supernatural but in Supernatural J squared's chemistry hides a multitude of sins. Torchwood doesn't seem to have anything to hide behind - and to me anyway the cracks are showing.