Torchwood 1x09
Jan. 3rd, 2007 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
revieloutionneSo, I've heard a lot of "Love & Monsters Part II, and just as bad!" about this one, but... I liked it. Granted, I rather liked Love & Monsters (which I grant could be seen as weak, and probably was ruined by what happened to Ursula, because honestly that's so incredibly out of character for The Doctor, and the oral sex joke besides), but I don't think they really compare much beyond the tertiary character narrator.
I mean, this is how the public at large are able to write off the Sycorax and the Battle of Canary Wharf: they don't deal with that on a daily basis, they deal with people like Eugene, who are conivinced that their "plastic eye" is alien and try to sell it on eBay. While people like Eugene are right, they come off as right nutters to people who haven't had the everyday contact with the alien world like that. Think about it: how often do you come across someone who believes in aliens, and how often do you write it off? How would you honestly react to the Sycorax, if you'd grown up with a lifetime of that? Certainly, there are people who saw the Sycorax and Cybermen and Daleks for what they were, but most people, likely almost everyone, have "people who believe in aliens are insane" so incredibly ingrained, that it was easier to accept a temporary insanity as an excuse than a truth that they would see as proof of ongoing insanity.
That said, god DAMN is Torchwood 3 lax about secrecy. It's one thing for the cops they routinely interrupt to know about them, but Eugene, Layman Supreme, was able to (try to) contact them.
Plus, it was nice to finally see some of the Gwen/Gwyneth connection we'd been promised, with Gwen being the only one aware of Eugene's presence until the end.
Oh, and I loved, loved the kid who honestly didn't really give a rat's that his loser of an older brother died. Those kids exist, and Torchwood's amoral universe is the perfect place for them to show up on TV, because he's not really vilified for it. It's just a reaction to death that is what it is. Aweosme.
(Oh, and Eugene was HOT, despite what the script said about him)
I mean, this is how the public at large are able to write off the Sycorax and the Battle of Canary Wharf: they don't deal with that on a daily basis, they deal with people like Eugene, who are conivinced that their "plastic eye" is alien and try to sell it on eBay. While people like Eugene are right, they come off as right nutters to people who haven't had the everyday contact with the alien world like that. Think about it: how often do you come across someone who believes in aliens, and how often do you write it off? How would you honestly react to the Sycorax, if you'd grown up with a lifetime of that? Certainly, there are people who saw the Sycorax and Cybermen and Daleks for what they were, but most people, likely almost everyone, have "people who believe in aliens are insane" so incredibly ingrained, that it was easier to accept a temporary insanity as an excuse than a truth that they would see as proof of ongoing insanity.
That said, god DAMN is Torchwood 3 lax about secrecy. It's one thing for the cops they routinely interrupt to know about them, but Eugene, Layman Supreme, was able to (try to) contact them.
Plus, it was nice to finally see some of the Gwen/Gwyneth connection we'd been promised, with Gwen being the only one aware of Eugene's presence until the end.
Oh, and I loved, loved the kid who honestly didn't really give a rat's that his loser of an older brother died. Those kids exist, and Torchwood's amoral universe is the perfect place for them to show up on TV, because he's not really vilified for it. It's just a reaction to death that is what it is. Aweosme.
(Oh, and Eugene was HOT, despite what the script said about him)
