Okay, okay, let me fix you on a few sad, sad things:
I...wow. This was truly awful. Awful in a way I was not really prepared for.
Sorry. I tried to warn you about the stabbity stupid.
Although the Cyberwoman/pterodactyl fight did give me five of the most unintentionally hilarious minutes I've seen this year, so that's something.
You need need need to watch the declassified thingee, because as it turns out, to film that scene they basically had a great big green triangle on a ten-foot stick that they poked CyberSkank with repeatedly. SO MUCH FUN!
Why the hell is there a stream, or possibly an open sewer line, flowing through the Torchwood office?
Um, so the official Rustese on the matter (from an earlier declassified thingee) is that... the office is an abandoned Tube station? Confronted with the idea that, perhaps, there is no Underground in Cardiff, RTD kind of muttered and waved his hands and they cut to a different question. No, really. Oh, and they're right under the big watery Freudian thingabob outside the shiny cultural center doodle (um, check it out in Boom Town), and... the water's gotta drain somewhere? Ok, pretty much just chalk it up to ambience.
why do five people, one of whom appears to be both secretary and janitor, need such a massive office?
Um... they're saving space for all those competent people they're gonna hire... someday? Again, a bit of the Tube seems to have gotten horribly, horribly lost.
Although that stilted delivery is possibly because he's trying very, very hard not to crack up at the awful lines he gets.
THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!! But woah, if you wanna see bad... tonight was a whopper. I had to *avert my eyes* because I just couldn't bear to look at delivery that awkward. That, and TPTB seem to be trying to 1) murder Jack's character, and 2) make him straight. WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO POOR JACK??
So, we're not just utilizing our later timeslot, we're actively exploiting it. Good to know.
Yes, "adult" means "adolescent boy." Didn't anyone tell you?
I get the impression that Jack never really wanted to lead people. He seems...less than communicative.
No, that's just his Undying Emo Pain.
Like perhaps he'd like everyone to leave so he can save the world by himself, and then be alone with the Doctor's severed hand.
You haven't actually seen that episode, have you? We could fix that... You know you want more baaaaaaad....
Did Jack just...oh, he did. Jack brought Ianto back to life with a magic kiss. Ow, my head. *drinks more, thinks less*
A show that has a PRECEDENT for a Snog of Life makes me die a little on the inside. Because, yes, Jack got immortal'd when Rose did that TARDIS-CPR stuff, and now he's got... immortality to spare? Via snog? Be glad you didn't see the CGI version. But it explains why they had to warp his character beyond all recognition, 'cause otherwise the entire population of Cardiff would be immortal now. Or something. I miss the old Jack.
*eyes Jack and Gwen* Gwen's boyfriend is so very not long for this world, or at least for being Gwen's boyfriend.
Rumor is she cheats on him before they break up. Ouch!
And I even forgive her her incompetence, seeing as it stemmed from Jack's megalomania.
What, her "let's stand in a doorway and stare and totally forget to run away and save everybody?" Um, many many things are Jack's fault, but not that.
Ellen, I'm trying to get up the stomach to watch the Declassified thing you included, but it has RTD on it, and he's talking, and I'm sure you know how I can't stand that.
But it has John Barrowman on it, and he's squeeing! (Seriously, it makes David Tennant look... dignified.) And there's a poor, mistreated actress in a CyberKini getting attacked by a green-screened triangle on a pole! With barbeque sauce! And the pole-wrangler is wearing a cape. WATCH IT! (It's only ten minutes of pain, I promise.)
Oh, and tonight's ep: JACK FED A KID TO AN EVIL MONSTER AND IT WAS FABULOUS!
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Date: 2006-11-13 05:33 am (UTC)I...wow. This was truly awful. Awful in a way I was not really prepared for.
Sorry. I tried to warn you about the stabbity stupid.
Although the Cyberwoman/pterodactyl fight did give me five of the most unintentionally hilarious minutes I've seen this year, so that's something.
You need need need to watch the declassified thingee, because as it turns out, to film that scene they basically had a great big green triangle on a ten-foot stick that they poked CyberSkank with repeatedly. SO MUCH FUN!
Why the hell is there a stream, or possibly an open sewer line, flowing through the Torchwood office?
Um, so the official Rustese on the matter (from an earlier declassified thingee) is that... the office is an abandoned Tube station? Confronted with the idea that, perhaps, there is no Underground in Cardiff, RTD kind of muttered and waved his hands and they cut to a different question. No, really. Oh, and they're right under the big watery Freudian thingabob outside the shiny cultural center doodle (um, check it out in Boom Town), and... the water's gotta drain somewhere? Ok, pretty much just chalk it up to ambience.
why do five people, one of whom appears to be both secretary and janitor, need such a massive office?
Um... they're saving space for all those competent people they're gonna hire... someday? Again, a bit of the Tube seems to have gotten horribly, horribly lost.
Although that stilted delivery is possibly because he's trying very, very hard not to crack up at the awful lines he gets.
THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!! But woah, if you wanna see bad... tonight was a whopper. I had to *avert my eyes* because I just couldn't bear to look at delivery that awkward. That, and TPTB seem to be trying to 1) murder Jack's character, and 2) make him straight. WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO POOR JACK??
So, we're not just utilizing our later timeslot, we're actively exploiting it. Good to know.
Yes, "adult" means "adolescent boy." Didn't anyone tell you?
I get the impression that Jack never really wanted to lead people. He seems...less than communicative.
No, that's just his Undying Emo Pain.
Like perhaps he'd like everyone to leave so he can save the world by himself, and then be alone with the Doctor's severed hand.
You haven't actually seen that episode, have you? We could fix that... You know you want more baaaaaaad....
Did Jack just...oh, he did. Jack brought Ianto back to life with a magic kiss. Ow, my head. *drinks more, thinks less*
A show that has a PRECEDENT for a Snog of Life makes me die a little on the inside. Because, yes, Jack got immortal'd when Rose did that TARDIS-CPR stuff, and now he's got... immortality to spare? Via snog? Be glad you didn't see the CGI version. But it explains why they had to warp his character beyond all recognition, 'cause otherwise the entire population of Cardiff would be immortal now. Or something. I miss the old Jack.
*eyes Jack and Gwen* Gwen's boyfriend is so very not long for this world, or at least for being Gwen's boyfriend.
Rumor is she cheats on him before they break up. Ouch!
And I even forgive her her incompetence, seeing as it stemmed from Jack's megalomania.
What, her "let's stand in a doorway and stare and totally forget to run away and save everybody?" Um, many many things are Jack's fault, but not that.
Ellen, I'm trying to get up the stomach to watch the Declassified thing you included, but it has RTD on it, and he's talking, and I'm sure you know how I can't stand that.
But it has John Barrowman on it, and he's squeeing! (Seriously, it makes David Tennant look... dignified.) And there's a poor, mistreated actress in a CyberKini getting attacked by a green-screened triangle on a pole! With barbeque sauce! And the pole-wrangler is wearing a cape. WATCH IT! (It's only ten minutes of pain, I promise.)
Oh, and tonight's ep: JACK FED A KID TO AN EVIL MONSTER AND IT WAS FABULOUS!