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Torchwood

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
edited January 2023 in General Chat
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought it looked a bit like an advert by the welsh tourist board - maybe they are part funding it.

    But yes in general i though it was a bit like dr who with added porn and actors who were sexy from one angle and ugly from another. I might watch another episode but its unlikely as its on so damn late. Yanto was amusing though...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I havn't watched it because i was out last night. I'm going to try and catch the repeats on Wednesday.
  • littlemissylittlemissy Posts: 9,972 Supreme Poster
    Have recorded it and will watch it later. I hope it is better than you say. I'll be very disappointed otherwise as I have been waiting ages for it.

    Although, Captain Jack :heart:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It was ok, but if it was me making it, apart from Captain Jack and young lady Gwen i would have killed off all the rest of the cast in the first episode. They are all just so uninteresting. However... the swearing and sex scenes were good... though i miss the military units, etc that Torchwood had in London in the Dr Who finale.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It was okay, but the pace of the episodes where all over the place everything seemed to happen in the first and last 10 mins.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Given how fantastic Doctor Who is, this was shite.

    It was very "atmospheric"- i.e. 20 minutes of script and plot development, and 25 minutes of very pretty night-time helicopter shots of Cardiff.

    The talent's good though :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hardly a great opening, but worth giving another try I think.

    Anyone know when the next series of House is on, that's the only proper decent drama on TV.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought it was pretty good, I was expecting it to be absolutely terrible, the third episode looks like it might pick things up a bit, though the second was alright.

    Surprised no Joe Aherne involved though, after Ultraviolet I was expecting they'd want him for a director is they really wanted something gritty.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I still stand by my statement that they should get rid of the entire cast in one big killing frenzy with the exception of the 2 leads.

    Also, yes, far too much Cardiff photography, but saying that, i wasnt that keen on some of the first new series of Dr Who, so worth waiting for it to pick up.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was confused as to why they kept showing the aerial shot of the roundabout at night :chin:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I thought it was entertaining enough :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Pretty poor - in the last two episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood was a well funded organisation, with plenty of people. After decamping to Cardiff its dropped down to four, one of whom turned out to be a pyschotic mass murderer and her replacement let loose a mass murdering alien. Frankly their recruitment policies are a bit shit...

    and the full on lesbian kiss, whilst enjoyable, seemed only to be there so that they could justify calling it 'adult'.

    I want UNIT and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart back :crying:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There's more than one Torchwood site.

    Yeah one that's well staffed with scientists and military personell and one that has four people. If Cardiff is as important as they say common sense suggests you might want to put a few more people there. One car crash when they're speeding to an investigation and that Earth sold into slavery...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Umm...no...

    Torchwood One is the big tower in London, Torchwood Two is the one in Glasgow, Torchwood Three is the one in Cardiff and Torchwood Four was "lost" somehow.

    So does Torchwood Two have four people as well or do you think they could lend a couple to Cardiff...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's a low casting budget more like
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    So does Torchwood Two have four people as well or do you think they could lend a couple to Cardiff...

    Touchwood 2 is staffed by one man in glasgow apparently - though that could just be the boss who knows. I thought Touchwood one was lost in a Dr Who episode but i dont' really know as i don't watch DR W.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Torchwood One got blown up in the war between the Cybermen and the Daleks.

    Do keep up!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    And they decided their mistake was to have lots of people involved and investigate things with a team of scientists. Far better to focus all their efforts in a serial killer, a bi time traveller, a boring geek and a sex starved reject from a bad episode of coupling ;)

    But seriously, you almost never focus on a large group of people to get a drama to work, look at the x-files or ultraviolet which both have basically 4 or 5 cast members (and often fail when moving up to too many in the case of the x-files). I mean the x-files is set in the FBI but other than shadows walking past the door you'd never know it.

    Even stuff like Star Trek is still basically Kirk, Spock and McCoy and everyone popping in now and again.

    Probably Lost or Heroes, or a few other minor series (haven't seen 4400), are the only ones to work with large casts and that's because the budget allows. Even so shows like Lost end up getting bogged down dealing with so many different characters and stories rather than moving forward.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I would agree with that, still i would prefer it to just have 2 people and the rest as pop up extras in Torchwood. I never watched 4400 until the other night when i saw the guy who was the Vice President in Commander in Cheif was in it and then i got watching and it turned out to be really good.
    Why does the budget allow so many characters...because most of the seasons were only 13 episodes long.

    Makes me respect the Financial backers of Battlestar Galactica to make sooooo many episodes per season, at such high production values with such a large ensemble cast.

    P.S. The X-files seriously lost the plot near the end...dont you just hate it when main characters have to leave because the actor has gotten too big for the show in their own head.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Man Battlestar just breaks all the rules, all the time. Hands down the best sci-fi for a decade
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote:
    Man Battlestar just breaks all the rules, all the time. Hands down the best sci-fi for a decade


    :thumb: You speak the truth :thumb:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bullseye wrote:
    :thumb: You speak the truth :thumb:

    NERDS:D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Renzo wrote:
    NERDS:D


    Silence You!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jim V wrote:
    And they decided their mistake was to have lots of people involved and investigate things with a team of scientists. Far better to focus all their efforts in a serial killer, a bi time traveller, a boring geek and a sex starved reject from a bad episode of coupling ;)

    But seriously, you almost never focus on a large group of people to get a drama to work, look at the x-files or ultraviolet which both have basically 4 or 5 cast members (and often fail when moving up to too many in the case of the x-files). I mean the x-files is set in the FBI but other than shadows walking past the door you'd never know it.

    Even stuff like Star Trek is still basically Kirk, Spock and McCoy and everyone popping in now and again.

    Probably Lost or Heroes, or a few other minor series (haven't seen 4400), are the only ones to work with large casts and that's because the budget allows. Even so shows like Lost end up getting bogged down dealing with so many different characters and stories rather than moving forward.

    But having lots of extras around doesn't mean you don't focus on the main characters. Star Trek as you say focussed on the three main characters, then a bunch of secondary characters and then had loads of other bods running around to make it look like the Enterprise was a working spaceship.

    I still want them to bring back UNIT
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Was anybody else really disappointed?

    Less pretty shots of Cardiff and more script if you please.

    ... and turn the fucking background music down so that I can here the words which you have actually written...
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