Hee! Thanks! I really like the concept but as far as actual execution, the text is kinda hard to read, darn it...
But with the New Who they've apparently decided that sexual tension is crucial to any TV show. Whatever. As long as it doesn't play any bigger element that it has so far, I can deal.
Yeah, ditto with me. Okay, yeah, it does bug me -- it's not unrealistic in terms of human relationships, but it's really not what I want to see. But it's not in-your-face enough to damage my enjoyment of the show. On the other hand, we're now two-for-two with shippy Companions (three-for-three if you count Jack) and I really, really want something different from the next one.
From all I've heard about Torchwood, I've decided to give this season a miss (maybe watching, or skimming, a couple of episodes so I know who the characters are) and then give it a try next season in the hopes it'll be a little less, well, everything that people have told me Torchwood is. *g*
The Face of Bo! That was hilarious! And I really have no idea if it's supposed to be literal fact or just the writers messing with us, since there's no telling who and what Jack comes in contact with during the rest of his possibly-eternal life, and there are dozens of ways that the name could be the same without the Face of Bo actually being Jack. But, still, that did throw me for a loop -- in a good way! Yet another reason for me NOT to want to watch Torchwood is because this way, I get to enjoy Jack on Doctor Who without thinking about any other incarnations of him ... my squee is unspoiled!
I've got to say that psychic energy thing making the Doctor glow and float like a glowy floating thing was really quite cheesy.
Ha. Very much with you on that. Actually, it was just a little TOO cheesy for me! But by that point, I was caught up enough in the general emotional high of the episode to not really care.
The Master ... hmm. I think I may be the only fangirl on the planet who's actually sort of indifferent to him. He's a good villain and he entertained me, but I don't really feel much of an emotional connection to him. I didn't get massive amounts of squee off his scenes with the Doctor, although the fact that the Doctor looked sort of like Gollum for some of that time probably had something to do with that...
The thing that really chilled me big-time about the Master, though, was his wife (was her name Lucy?) and her interaction with him. I thought they did a really, truly awesome job there of demonstrating the way that ordinary humans react to him, and the callous way that he interacts with them. Seeing her break down from an attractive and self-possessed (if obsessively cultist) woman, to this empty, bruised shell following him around, while he's still reacting to her just exactly as he did in the beginning, making it very obvious that he hasn't really noticed the change and wouldn't have cared if he did -- it's so much MORE chilling than the torture he inflicts on Jack or the way he deliberately humiliates Martha's family, because it's just ... casual. At least when he's trying to break the Doctor's friends, he's taking notice of them as individuals and sentient (if lesser) beings, but with Lucy, she's kind of like a piece of furniture to him.
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Hee! Thanks! I really like the concept but as far as actual execution, the text is kinda hard to read, darn it...
But with the New Who they've apparently decided that sexual tension is crucial to any TV show. Whatever. As long as it doesn't play any bigger element that it has so far, I can deal.
Yeah, ditto with me. Okay, yeah, it does bug me -- it's not unrealistic in terms of human relationships, but it's really not what I want to see. But it's not in-your-face enough to damage my enjoyment of the show. On the other hand, we're now two-for-two with shippy Companions (three-for-three if you count Jack) and I really, really want something different from the next one.
From all I've heard about Torchwood, I've decided to give this season a miss (maybe watching, or skimming, a couple of episodes so I know who the characters are) and then give it a try next season in the hopes it'll be a little less, well, everything that people have told me Torchwood is. *g*
The Face of Bo! That was hilarious! And I really have no idea if it's supposed to be literal fact or just the writers messing with us, since there's no telling who and what Jack comes in contact with during the rest of his possibly-eternal life, and there are dozens of ways that the name could be the same without the Face of Bo actually being Jack. But, still, that did throw me for a loop -- in a good way! Yet another reason for me NOT to want to watch Torchwood is because this way, I get to enjoy Jack on Doctor Who without thinking about any other incarnations of him ... my squee is unspoiled!
I've got to say that psychic energy thing making the Doctor glow and float like a glowy floating thing was really quite cheesy.
Ha. Very much with you on that. Actually, it was just a little TOO cheesy for me! But by that point, I was caught up enough in the general emotional high of the episode to not really care.
The Master ... hmm. I think I may be the only fangirl on the planet who's actually sort of indifferent to him. He's a good villain and he entertained me, but I don't really feel much of an emotional connection to him. I didn't get massive amounts of squee off his scenes with the Doctor, although the fact that the Doctor looked sort of like Gollum for some of that time probably had something to do with that...
The thing that really chilled me big-time about the Master, though, was his wife (was her name Lucy?) and her interaction with him. I thought they did a really, truly awesome job there of demonstrating the way that ordinary humans react to him, and the callous way that he interacts with them. Seeing her break down from an attractive and self-possessed (if obsessively cultist) woman, to this empty, bruised shell following him around, while he's still reacting to her just exactly as he did in the beginning, making it very obvious that he hasn't really noticed the change and wouldn't have cared if he did -- it's so much MORE chilling than the torture he inflicts on Jack or the way he deliberately humiliates Martha's family, because it's just ... casual. At least when he's trying to break the Doctor's friends, he's taking notice of them as individuals and sentient (if lesser) beings, but with Lucy, she's kind of like a piece of furniture to him.