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castaliaOkay, saying I hate it all is pretty much understood now. While there was some hugely entertaining, high quality television there, like always Rusty disappoints in the end and leaves me feeling crap instead of elated.
I would have liked Gwen's little video speech at the beginning a bit better if it wasn't a total rehash of Rose's "this is the story of how I died" rubbish. Rusty, stop it with the same old tricks.
I really, really loved Ianto's sister. I wish we could've kept that whole family for another season.
The scenes of the governmental figures calmly organizing how to select children, blackmail the soldiers into doing the dirty work, etc, is really the most chilling aspect of the story arc IMO. It's simple yet we can all imagine our world leaders doing this.
I liked the UNIT guy, who finally asked what needed to be asked. So children are like little drug factories...okay. I guess just synthesizing some of those "chemicals" would just be out of the question, eh? What a huge letdown that was. Plotholes out the ass, that's Rusty.
It was kinda OTT evil for the PM to suddenly tell Frobisher he had to not only use his own kids to further the fake inoculation story, but to give them away to aliens as well. That's just fricking cold.
Loved hearing Andy speak a bit of Welsh, even if it was just a brief welcome home.
At first I was rolling my eyes a bit at Spears' little speech about Frobisher, but then when he took the gun out of the box I got chills. The whole thing made me finally tear up and was just a powerful scene because it was so believable and heart wrenching. God. I expected him to play a larger role in the conclusion, so it came as more of a shock.
I had a feeling when Johnson the Secret Agent saw the footage she'd switch sides and start helping Torchwood. Have to admit, it's nice having so many female characters.
Loved the estate lads taking on the soldiers, though I was really afraid for Ianto's BIL and PC Andy. I kept thinking at least it's not a US show, where those soldiers would be carrying assault rifles. But seriously, the government is stupid to think they could manage all this without anyone knowing. Not in the age of cell phone cameras, viral videos, and YouTube.
The higher production values were good until the shot of all the kids standing in one large group. The duplication software was showing, badly.
I also liked that Bridget Spears rebelled against the PM as well. Though I would have liked the other councilwoman taking over much better had she not been the one to say "let's get rid of all the poor kids".
Lord, and now Jack has sold his soul again. His own grandson. God, watching that was harsh. I'm surprised they went that far with a kid, with the blood and everything.
The ending was just lame for me. Okay, I can buy that this would be the last straw for Jack. After losing pretty much his entire team plus killing his own grandson, staying would be too painful. Gwen would be a reminder, putting together a new team would be something he wouldn't feel he deserved. So, what, he's just going to randomly cruise the universe until he becomes the wise old Face of Boe?
That was possibly the most depressing thing I've ever seen on television. I don't feel all wowed by it. I don't feel like I've watched something amazing. I feel like that was five hours of extreme emotional manipulation and a cheap attempt to be dark and edgy and modern and shit. Well, yay. If edgy means having your heroes be so incredibly incompetent that they get each other killed and almost take the world with them, then to fix it they sacrifice innocents instead of themselves...then no. I don't want edgy.
I'm glad Gwen and Rhys survived, but everything else, just, no. I'm done. Donna, Ianto, Tosh...I've learned my lesson, Rusty. Not watching any more of your damn shows.
I would have liked Gwen's little video speech at the beginning a bit better if it wasn't a total rehash of Rose's "this is the story of how I died" rubbish. Rusty, stop it with the same old tricks.
I really, really loved Ianto's sister. I wish we could've kept that whole family for another season.
The scenes of the governmental figures calmly organizing how to select children, blackmail the soldiers into doing the dirty work, etc, is really the most chilling aspect of the story arc IMO. It's simple yet we can all imagine our world leaders doing this.
I liked the UNIT guy, who finally asked what needed to be asked. So children are like little drug factories...okay. I guess just synthesizing some of those "chemicals" would just be out of the question, eh? What a huge letdown that was. Plotholes out the ass, that's Rusty.
It was kinda OTT evil for the PM to suddenly tell Frobisher he had to not only use his own kids to further the fake inoculation story, but to give them away to aliens as well. That's just fricking cold.
Loved hearing Andy speak a bit of Welsh, even if it was just a brief welcome home.
At first I was rolling my eyes a bit at Spears' little speech about Frobisher, but then when he took the gun out of the box I got chills. The whole thing made me finally tear up and was just a powerful scene because it was so believable and heart wrenching. God. I expected him to play a larger role in the conclusion, so it came as more of a shock.
I had a feeling when Johnson the Secret Agent saw the footage she'd switch sides and start helping Torchwood. Have to admit, it's nice having so many female characters.
Loved the estate lads taking on the soldiers, though I was really afraid for Ianto's BIL and PC Andy. I kept thinking at least it's not a US show, where those soldiers would be carrying assault rifles. But seriously, the government is stupid to think they could manage all this without anyone knowing. Not in the age of cell phone cameras, viral videos, and YouTube.
The higher production values were good until the shot of all the kids standing in one large group. The duplication software was showing, badly.
I also liked that Bridget Spears rebelled against the PM as well. Though I would have liked the other councilwoman taking over much better had she not been the one to say "let's get rid of all the poor kids".
Lord, and now Jack has sold his soul again. His own grandson. God, watching that was harsh. I'm surprised they went that far with a kid, with the blood and everything.
The ending was just lame for me. Okay, I can buy that this would be the last straw for Jack. After losing pretty much his entire team plus killing his own grandson, staying would be too painful. Gwen would be a reminder, putting together a new team would be something he wouldn't feel he deserved. So, what, he's just going to randomly cruise the universe until he becomes the wise old Face of Boe?
That was possibly the most depressing thing I've ever seen on television. I don't feel all wowed by it. I don't feel like I've watched something amazing. I feel like that was five hours of extreme emotional manipulation and a cheap attempt to be dark and edgy and modern and shit. Well, yay. If edgy means having your heroes be so incredibly incompetent that they get each other killed and almost take the world with them, then to fix it they sacrifice innocents instead of themselves...then no. I don't want edgy.
I'm glad Gwen and Rhys survived, but everything else, just, no. I'm done. Donna, Ianto, Tosh...I've learned my lesson, Rusty. Not watching any more of your damn shows.
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Date: 2009-07-11 04:22 pm (UTC)