In a dry and waterless place
Nov. 8th, 2006 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraIt took me two episodes of QI this time before I watched the latest Torchwood episode, which is a worrying trend. Anyway.
I will still continue to like Owen, mad drugging (attempted) rapist and inappropriate purveyor of workplace sexual harrassment that he is, largely because he rolled his eyes at the exact same time I did, when Ianto was accusing Jack of being the biggest monster of them all, or losing touch with his essential humanity or something. My current theory is that Torchwood is secretly run by aliens trying to completely stuff up humanity's response to anything extra-terrestrial, with Jack as their super secret agent, because otherwise nothing makes sense. This is the least functional team ever (I haven't seen The Office, tho'). Every week, Jack's opening voice-over announces that "You have to be ready", and every week they lock more technology away from everyone (except bored office staff) or fail to deal with what they already have. Okay, so they've trained a pterodactyl. The most effective and high tech nonliving weapon they have against a cyberperson is some sort of bone chisel.
Running along with the problems of the team's actual mission is the fact that the series seems incapable of generating tension outside the team, what with Suzie, Owen and now Ianto all providing major action plots. Despite this, Toshiko still has no personality. I find myself thinking fondly of Law and Order: SVU, where I always got the feeling the writers were slightly embarrassed when they suggested the characters had personal lives, but they were all distinct personalities.
The trailer for next week's episode, though, looks surprisingly good. And I'll keep watching for the PJ Hammond episode, if nothing else, but I really wish the show wasn't moving from "chaotic, but has potential" to "intermittently enjoyable but ultimately incoherent" quite so quickly.
I will still continue to like Owen, mad drugging (attempted) rapist and inappropriate purveyor of workplace sexual harrassment that he is, largely because he rolled his eyes at the exact same time I did, when Ianto was accusing Jack of being the biggest monster of them all, or losing touch with his essential humanity or something. My current theory is that Torchwood is secretly run by aliens trying to completely stuff up humanity's response to anything extra-terrestrial, with Jack as their super secret agent, because otherwise nothing makes sense. This is the least functional team ever (I haven't seen The Office, tho'). Every week, Jack's opening voice-over announces that "You have to be ready", and every week they lock more technology away from everyone (except bored office staff) or fail to deal with what they already have. Okay, so they've trained a pterodactyl. The most effective and high tech nonliving weapon they have against a cyberperson is some sort of bone chisel.
Running along with the problems of the team's actual mission is the fact that the series seems incapable of generating tension outside the team, what with Suzie, Owen and now Ianto all providing major action plots. Despite this, Toshiko still has no personality. I find myself thinking fondly of Law and Order: SVU, where I always got the feeling the writers were slightly embarrassed when they suggested the characters had personal lives, but they were all distinct personalities.
The trailer for next week's episode, though, looks surprisingly good. And I'll keep watching for the PJ Hammond episode, if nothing else, but I really wish the show wasn't moving from "chaotic, but has potential" to "intermittently enjoyable but ultimately incoherent" quite so quickly.
