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bending_sickleJust a while ago, I was happily eating a nice cheese-stuffed pastry - a bit headachey because I'm behind on the whole food concept again. I was walking past the hospital, down to my last bite, quite chipper because, dude, food. Then suddenly there's this whoosh, a sharp something on my head, and I cringe and close my eyes. Open my eyes. There is no cheese pastry. There is, however, a very happy seagull flying away with a bite-size morsel of cheese pastry.
This may or may not have prompted a little wibble!fest centering on how fucky the universe is to one sometimes. The universe doesn't necessarily aim to kick you when you're down, but it won't deter it either. And once you're down, well, any stumble's worth crying over.
So I've finally started watching Torchwood. Yesterday I watched 1x01: Everything Changes (transcript"). Honestly, if I hadn't decided to watch the series - and if I didn't already have Season 1 - I wouldn't "tune in for next weeks". It was very meh. I liked Gwen (and her boy), thought Ianto was nice (mainly because I saw a bit of him in Stolen Earth/Journey's End), but that's about it.
Captain Jack hits all the right buttons but just never really catches my attention enough - not even on Doctor Who. Oh, I like him fine on Doctor Who, but I don't really care about him all too much. Maybe it's all that youthful exuberance.
But there were a number of points where Torchwood had me back-pedaling. Hard.
One back-pedal was Jack: too condescending and plain captainy, especially with Gwen (at that point, a stranger and copper). His flipant, "No you’re not, and you never will." to Gwen's "I’m getting tired of following you." and his "You followed my lead, keep doing that you might just get through this." just had me wanting to slap him. (Mind, I really liked his drawing Gwen up a chair to assimilate the WTFery of aliens, saying, "Take your time. It was born on a different world and it’s real.")
Another back-pedal: the science. Jack says, "Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain." Strictly - or hey, even loosely - speaking, oestrogen isn't a contraceptive. It's a bloody hormone. There's hormones in the rain. What makes it a contraceptive is the constancy of levels in the female body, preventing normal cycling and thus the inception of ovulation. *slams Science Stick down*
The major back-pedal? The "We're above the law" shit. Which breaks down into a variety of Really Bad Things To Do.
1) The mindwipe. I hate mindwipes, and not just because of Donna's retcon. It's a complete violation of self, a cheapening of self. The fact that the mindwipe was through an alocholic bevearge just stank of benzodiazepines and date rape.
2) The sex-perfume. Speaking of date rape, I thought this was just aweful. I don't care how enthusiastic the woman - or man - gets after the spritz, this was rape.
3) Playing God. I'm so tired of this complex, it's not even funny.
Conclusion? The characters better as hell shape up and not be such colossal jerks. Oh, and I want Tosh's alien machine thingy.
Museum photographs in previous post.
* I understood late that regrets penalize me.**
** Je réalise, Sinik ft. James Blunt - Bloody gorgeous song.
This may or may not have prompted a little wibble!fest centering on how fucky the universe is to one sometimes. The universe doesn't necessarily aim to kick you when you're down, but it won't deter it either. And once you're down, well, any stumble's worth crying over.
So I've finally started watching Torchwood. Yesterday I watched 1x01: Everything Changes (transcript"). Honestly, if I hadn't decided to watch the series - and if I didn't already have Season 1 - I wouldn't "tune in for next weeks". It was very meh. I liked Gwen (and her boy), thought Ianto was nice (mainly because I saw a bit of him in Stolen Earth/Journey's End), but that's about it.
Captain Jack hits all the right buttons but just never really catches my attention enough - not even on Doctor Who. Oh, I like him fine on Doctor Who, but I don't really care about him all too much. Maybe it's all that youthful exuberance.
But there were a number of points where Torchwood had me back-pedaling. Hard.
One back-pedal was Jack: too condescending and plain captainy, especially with Gwen (at that point, a stranger and copper). His flipant, "No you’re not, and you never will." to Gwen's "I’m getting tired of following you." and his "You followed my lead, keep doing that you might just get through this." just had me wanting to slap him. (Mind, I really liked his drawing Gwen up a chair to assimilate the WTFery of aliens, saying, "Take your time. It was born on a different world and it’s real.")
Another back-pedal: the science. Jack says, "Definitely oestrogen. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain." Strictly - or hey, even loosely - speaking, oestrogen isn't a contraceptive. It's a bloody hormone. There's hormones in the rain. What makes it a contraceptive is the constancy of levels in the female body, preventing normal cycling and thus the inception of ovulation. *slams Science Stick down*
The major back-pedal? The "We're above the law" shit. Which breaks down into a variety of Really Bad Things To Do.
1) The mindwipe. I hate mindwipes, and not just because of Donna's retcon. It's a complete violation of self, a cheapening of self. The fact that the mindwipe was through an alocholic bevearge just stank of benzodiazepines and date rape.
2) The sex-perfume. Speaking of date rape, I thought this was just aweful. I don't care how enthusiastic the woman - or man - gets after the spritz, this was rape.
3) Playing God. I'm so tired of this complex, it's not even funny.
Conclusion? The characters better as hell shape up and not be such colossal jerks. Oh, and I want Tosh's alien machine thingy.
Museum photographs in previous post.
* I understood late that regrets penalize me.**
** Je réalise, Sinik ft. James Blunt - Bloody gorgeous song.
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Date: 2008-07-16 10:37 pm (UTC)As always: ♥-ing the science stick!
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Date: 2008-07-16 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-17 12:50 am (UTC)The above the law thing is annoying too, it eliminates a barrier that otherwise could add more character to the show. Also, Gwen works for the police and suddenly oh!! She doesn't care about the law anymore??
Doesn't fly with me.
When you get to Cyberwoman, we'll rant more.
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Date: 2008-07-17 09:17 am (UTC)I'm hoping to
rantreview each ep as I go. And I've heard horrible things about Cyberwoman. *shakes head*