So..

[tencrush]

I didn't want to write this long Torchwood post I was planning on writing, because I didn't feel it was fair of me to judge the show based on one episode. I VOWED that before saying any more about Torchwood: Miracle Day, I would at least watch one or two more episodes to get more of a feel for what was going on. I still haven't watched any more than that single solitary episode and having read the reactions to Ep 5, I suddenly realised that I probably won't actually be watching another episode ever again. Which probably means I won't ever write about what the fuck Torchwood has turned into and how much it disgusts me. You'll just have to take all that stuff as read, I guess. Sorry about that. But don't worry, that Ianto phonespam thing is still happening, it's just been delayed by technical problems.

But hey, dudes, MD episode 5: EDGY, right? Glad I'm not watching that gratuitous shock horror shit. Don't let the door hit your arse. Etc.

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[tencrush]

As far as I'm aware, we're on episode 5 and there's been no aliens as of yet. Which I was kind of expecting from what I'd heard. It's all CoE times one hundred about how awful humanity is and they'll even love pedophile killers and they'll put people in camps, moreso if they're poor or uneducated, and burn people alive and generally be cruel and unusual to each other and die pointlessly. I've seen all that before and I didn't like it much then, I certainly don't need to see it AGAIN WITH LESS SUBTLETY AND NO REDEEMING CHARM. And I have yet to undertsand how it qualifies as "sci-fi".

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen anyone liking this new season, whether or not they liked CoE, so whatever that did right for some people it's not doing it this time round. It's a pile of shit.

Rusty's best at stuff that's light-hearted overall with darker moments, but Torchwood tries to be the other way round so for me it's been floundering since it started a bit. But at least it was cracky and kind of stupid like when Jack drove in on a tractor and shot everyone in the legs, or when Ianto caught a bottle of life. And the vigilante fairies, that was special too.

We are witnessing a misanthrope writing about humanity.

[tencrush]

I loved all the stupid stuff with the pteranodon eating chocolate and the old ladies going "Bloody Torchwood" and Jack EMOTING at a space whale. Now it's just a hammer with the words PEOPLE ARE SCUM hitting you over and over and over, who the fuck would like that?

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the Doctor looks at Torchwood and turns away in SHAME. And because Antiques Roadshow is on another channel.

[tencrush]

Actually, it's Sarah Beeny and people whose houses are falling down. The Doctor would totes be watching that shiz, I think he'd like Beeny.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Is that where there is a tragic family and people build them a new house out of charity?

[tencrush]

No, that's DIYSOS. Beeny is a perpetually pregnant know-it-all property developer who helps people who have bought houses either by going "I wouldn't do that to it if I were you" or "I would never have bought this house if it had been me." Which usually makes them cry. And then she watches them fix up their dud house until their money runs out and then she laughs at them.

[jo02]

Oh - I lol'd really hard at this :)

[wounded-melody.livejournal.com]

"Kill them, kill them all! We're missing Antiques Roadshow!"

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Good God yes, exactly this. Real life hits us all with that particular hammer just fine, day in day out. I tend to prefer my fannish entertainment to be the stuff that maybe doesn't show the good guys winning every time, but at least has them winning sometimes. And always still trying to win, with humour and love. Clearly I'm too soft and bland and fantasy-hooked to endure RTD's bracing, searingly honest and integrity-laden life lessons. I'm just such a silly little woman.

[tencrush]

I see people now wishing that this shit was as lighthearted as CoE. That's just wrong on so many levels, it's almost funny.

[rivier.livejournal.com]

Certainly seems to have driven a fucking huge tractor straight through the middle of most of the MD squee, that's for sure. I can't imagine why. Still, it'll soon perk up when they're back to watching Jack fucking yet another new guy a few eps from now. Death camps? Pfft. SEXY GOOD TIMES Y'ALL!

[meleth.livejournal.com]

But he'll be fucking another guy in an angsty, manpain-y way. ANGST.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

I really, really loved the fairies.