Torchwood: Children of Earth

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1430144]

For the record, I have not seen it because I pretty much hate almost all the characters on Torchwood and I think the writers need remedial writing classes (I suspect the two are related).

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I betcha you disliked Life as well.

Love House. Never seen Hustle, nor do I want to.

My feelings on Torchwood are conflicted. It has some really beautiful writing, combined with absolute garbage. I'm disappointed the first two seasons weren't up to its potential -- and I blame the writers, not the actors.

I haven't seen Children of Earth -- I expect I will sooner or later.

I'm currently listening to the recent Torchwood radio plays, which so far are quite good. Perhaps the restriction of sound-only makes the writers work harder.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I liked Life but I also have come to grips with the idea that Crews only gets convictions through the direct intervention of Jehovah.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

After the not-lulz-enough silliness of The Second Doctor RTD seemed to really sort out whatever was causing the sloppiness that had crept into his writing by the time he started on torchwood ALOT - the next doctor who special was genuinely enjoyable, and I actually ended up liking Ianto in Children of Earth (where the character hadn't been consistently written enough to make any kind of impression on me before) and genuinely thought for a second Torchwood was going to be competent for a moment there.

There was a few moments where the tone whipped from dramatic to comedic to dramatic with no real warning, but aside from those I found myself actually watching it on wednesday, thursday and friday to find out what was going to happen next - I haven't felt that engrossed by any program for a long while.

Also: it worked a quarry pit into the story without being all "OHAI GUYZ, I CAN HAS QUARRY PIT IN DOCTR HOO SPIN OFF y/y!?!?"