This Week's Torchwood
Dec. 11th, 2006 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The episode made me cry.
Then so did Legally Blonde and Eight Crazy Nights. Not particularly difficult to make me cry--funeral scenes especially tend to do it. I get sort of jealous of all the sudden outpouring of love, I think.
Anyway, the point is that it's rather easy to make me cry and not necessarily an indicator of aesthetic quality. I think this was the weakest episode of the season so far. Which, again, not something to be ashamed of, every episode can't be as brilliant as "Countrycide" or "They Keep Killing Suzie," but the show is so consistently excellent that I found myself somewhat dissapointed. "Good" isn't good enough for me anymore; I've come to expect great.
There were a lot of good spots, and I liked the ending. Having a non-Torchwood member narrate seems a little too reminiscent of "Love and Monsters," though, and I feel there were a lot of places where it could have been better, that the writing and the execution was weak, that not all the problems were intrinsic to the concept.
Also not sure how it fits into the season thematically. No real abuse of power going on here, sort of like "Small Worlds." I guess it makes sense that they can't be being corrupted by their jobs all the time, sometimes they do need to just be solving cases and maybe even accidentally helping people (and the way in which Gwen's need to help Eugene and the official Torchwood objective of finding the eye were intermingled worked well), but it seems like everything interesting about the series was sort of put on hold so we could . . . what?
And the two problems are linked, I think, because it ends up feeling like filler, like the writers didn't care enough about this episode to make it great or to think about how it fit into the season. It feels like they just pumped it out because they needed a magical number of episodes, and if they didn't care then, really, why should I?
Notwithstanding the fact that I did care, at lots of points. Isn't an awful episode, just could--and should--have been great and sadly isn't.
I liked the focus on Gwen, but we didn't really learn anything new about her. People fall in love with her, and she's good at investigative work. While that still makes her more complexand hotter than Rose. . . .
Next week's episode looks promising, though.
The episode made me cry.
Then so did Legally Blonde and Eight Crazy Nights. Not particularly difficult to make me cry--funeral scenes especially tend to do it. I get sort of jealous of all the sudden outpouring of love, I think.
Anyway, the point is that it's rather easy to make me cry and not necessarily an indicator of aesthetic quality. I think this was the weakest episode of the season so far. Which, again, not something to be ashamed of, every episode can't be as brilliant as "Countrycide" or "They Keep Killing Suzie," but the show is so consistently excellent that I found myself somewhat dissapointed. "Good" isn't good enough for me anymore; I've come to expect great.
There were a lot of good spots, and I liked the ending. Having a non-Torchwood member narrate seems a little too reminiscent of "Love and Monsters," though, and I feel there were a lot of places where it could have been better, that the writing and the execution was weak, that not all the problems were intrinsic to the concept.
Also not sure how it fits into the season thematically. No real abuse of power going on here, sort of like "Small Worlds." I guess it makes sense that they can't be being corrupted by their jobs all the time, sometimes they do need to just be solving cases and maybe even accidentally helping people (and the way in which Gwen's need to help Eugene and the official Torchwood objective of finding the eye were intermingled worked well), but it seems like everything interesting about the series was sort of put on hold so we could . . . what?
And the two problems are linked, I think, because it ends up feeling like filler, like the writers didn't care enough about this episode to make it great or to think about how it fit into the season. It feels like they just pumped it out because they needed a magical number of episodes, and if they didn't care then, really, why should I?
Notwithstanding the fact that I did care, at lots of points. Isn't an awful episode, just could--and should--have been great and sadly isn't.
I liked the focus on Gwen, but we didn't really learn anything new about her. People fall in love with her, and she's good at investigative work. While that still makes her more complex
Next week's episode looks promising, though.