36 Hours

[poliphilo]

The night before last I kept waking up to discover I'd forgotten to breathe and needed to rectify the mistake pretty damn quick. Stupid old body.

Yesterday I spent in a reclining armchair watching stuff on TV. I watched Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix- a turbo-charged account of a leisurely novel- and the last three episodes of the BBC's new Torchwood series- which more than fulfilled the promise of the first two by turning all political and state-of-the-nationy. Russel T. Davies is a classic writer. He's produced a lot of tosh- much of it in the first two seasons of Torchwood- but when he gets things right he's outstanding.  Torchwood: Children of Men is a masterpiece- bitter, shaming, heartening, kinky, sentimental, morally challenging, subversive- also very exciting and funny.

 Last night I slept for 12 hours straight.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Well, I finally finished the last Torchwood at 1 AM. I can't believe I stayed up that late! It was pretty exciting, but I mostly felt like Davies wanted to make sure that "Torchwood" would never be back by removing all possibility. Having Jack kill 2 family members was completely over the top, IMO.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's always a way to bring back a successful TV or movie franchise if the will is there. After the success of the mini-series, I should imagine execs at the BBC will be keen to keep the show on the road- if necessary with an entirely new team.