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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2006-12-11 09:24 am
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Torchwood 8 and 9

Wow. They're actually starting to get better, finally.



ep 8 "They Keep Killing Suzie" - I rather liked this one, as it changed my sympathy for Suzie back and forth a bit. :D I never forgot that she'd killed a bunch of people to test the glove, but I had to remind myself a bit about it, and it gave two plausible reasons besides her just being a psychopath - the first being that she was obsessed with saving her dying father, and then after that was disproved, because she was obsessed with saving *herself*. The quest for immortality is a long and venerable tradition. :D

And "There's something moving in the dark" is a line that I find nicely creepy.

ep 9 "Random Shoes" - I liked this one, too. We didn't get any real characterization for the Torchwood people, but they were just being used as a vehicle for the story about Eugene and his life being revealed as made possible by the alien artifact and that's an approach I like.

Both of the episodes had a couple of logical leaps here and there made by the characters, but the rest of the story was interesting enough that I wasn't derailed.

[identity profile] thomasyan.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
I liked "Random Shoes", but I also found it annoying familiar in a way I couldn't figure out, until I realized it felt a bit like a retread of Doctor Who's "Love and Monsters".

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the conceit of focusing a story on someone other than the putative main characters, so that didn't bother me.