Torchwood: UNjumping the shark!
Feb. 23rd, 2008 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seawaspI *detested* the first season of Torchwood. It was mostly a juvenile exercise in sex-focused idiot plots, and the few episodes I enjoyed seemed to be the least-liked by the fans. It seemed that Torchwood itself caused a lot of the problems rather than solving them, and the characters for the most part were simply not believable as members of this super-secret organization.
The NEW Torchwood has been much more fun. The characters are less juvenile, the organization... well, HAS organization. The characters show competence most of the time and the problems mostly stem from things that AREN'T Torchwood's fault.
It's nice to see a show which, for once, gets BETTER instead of worse as time goes by.
The NEW Torchwood has been much more fun. The characters are less juvenile, the organization... well, HAS organization. The characters show competence most of the time and the problems mostly stem from things that AREN'T Torchwood's fault.
It's nice to see a show which, for once, gets BETTER instead of worse as time goes by.
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Date: 2008-03-08 04:51 am (UTC)This was mentioned in at least one entry on the TV Tropes website: that, unlike many shows with one token character of alternate orientation, in Torchwood, everybody is. Having seen only part of the first season, but been bored silly by this aspect of the storytelling (what is this, Showtime's version of The Outer Limits?), I then invented the term "opportunistically sexual" to more compactly represent the show's attitude in my own head.