Torchwood Revisited
Nov. 11th, 2006 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI liked the first couple of episodes, but now I'm having doubts. The truth is we're four episodes in and I don't care tuppence for any of the characters. They don't interest me. There doesn't seem to be any chemistry between them.
And there's a great big black hole at the centre in the shape of John Barrowman. He's pretty and the 1940s greatcoat is enviable, but that's it. He smirks, he quips, he flaunts, but he doesn't have soul. He's a throwback to those cocky, American TV heroes of the 60sand 70s- like Napoleon Solo or James T. Kirk or the Tony Curtis character in the Persuaders- whom we tolerated for the sake of their much groovier sidekicks.
Torchwood is being sold as an adult show, but adult ought to mean something more than the odd lesbian snog or particularly bloody death. The latest episode- with our heroes running all over the shop to escape the stompy cyberwoman- was base-line Who and could easily have gone out at tea-time. Dr Who at its best- The Girl In The Fireplace for example- is much more grown up than anything we've seen from Torchwood thus far.
Teething troubles or fatal flaw? I wonder how the viewing figures are holding up?
And there's a great big black hole at the centre in the shape of John Barrowman. He's pretty and the 1940s greatcoat is enviable, but that's it. He smirks, he quips, he flaunts, but he doesn't have soul. He's a throwback to those cocky, American TV heroes of the 60sand 70s- like Napoleon Solo or James T. Kirk or the Tony Curtis character in the Persuaders- whom we tolerated for the sake of their much groovier sidekicks.
Torchwood is being sold as an adult show, but adult ought to mean something more than the odd lesbian snog or particularly bloody death. The latest episode- with our heroes running all over the shop to escape the stompy cyberwoman- was base-line Who and could easily have gone out at tea-time. Dr Who at its best- The Girl In The Fireplace for example- is much more grown up than anything we've seen from Torchwood thus far.
Teething troubles or fatal flaw? I wonder how the viewing figures are holding up?
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Date: 2006-11-11 04:39 pm (UTC)As a theory it falls completely flat with Captain Jack there because he's continually being painted as the know-it-all.
I think the series would work much better if all the Torchwood personnel were encountering this in the same way Gwen is. Though I guess it could get a little too X-files if that became a big theme.