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

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

I've heard so much about it from people online that I feel like I've seen it, and since all I hear are complaints, I'm not likely to watch it. The complaints don't seem to be "you've ruined Doctor Who" though, more like "Goddammit, Davies, you're a hack and you suck".

[runningbadger.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Here is an anti-complaint. I didn't think much to the first season, liked the second one enough to watch all the episodes eventually, and thought CoE was incomparably better. Enough better that I wound up sitting through the last three hours back to back in the end. Quatermass IV blended with Spooks, as described above, is a good description; it's simply a much better show that happens to have the surviving members of the Torchwood cast in it. I think you should give it a chance.

Also I agree with the praise for Peter Capaldi above. Excellent. I was amazed by the range he can get out of (un)civil servant, when I got round to remembering Malcolm Tucker, but that took a long time, because there is nothing in the performance apart from Capaldi's features to remind you.