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Oct. 23rd, 2006 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tellitslantHells yeah I can get behind that. *g* I don't totally love it yet, but I can get there. I like Gwen quite a bit, am really amused that the staff spend their spare time speculating on Jack and his sexuality and background, and really, really didn't see the twist at the end of the first ep coming. And I really could have liked Suzie, dammit.
Hope they cut down on the "Jack will shag anything" innuendo. Hope they make Gwen less useless and more, you know, police-y. And also less of the "omg I am human" line because, um, unlike with the Doctor and Rose? Torchwood is human, thanks. Dear Rusty please let someone else write women on your shows. God, actually, doesn't that just play weird, the role of the woman in Rusty's TV viewpoints? You could really even make a case for it in Queer as Folk. Huh.
I can buy the Magic Jack part mainly because that says to me "Hey, all that godly power that Rose was channelling, she really didn't know how to use it, isn't it funny how it's spilled over?" Also, if you didn't watch Who, that bit with the hand would be weird. And if you do watch Who, it's just too heavy-handed. HAH.
I LOVE that Gwen tracked them through takeaway. I'm pretty easy for shows with some amusing punning (as seen above) and characters that interact decently and are all flawed (although, again, Gwen's newbieness needs to give way to PC Cooper a bit plz). I enjoyed it for the most part. Oh, and I do love how totally shady they are. "We're just here to test the glove." Hee.
And because I am easy, I was way too amused at the "Hi, the whole team's enjoying watching the two pretty ladies snog... wait, maybe we should stop it before someone gets disintegrated... OH YEAH" moment. I wonder how much it could be too gay, though, but we'll see how that goes in further "not just for the premiere ratings" episodes. *g* (It's really not often that I say "this could be too queer," but if we've got Captain Jack, Owen the Jack in training, Toshiko who totally fixated on the faux lesbianism, Ianto who "doesn't care" about Jack's sexuality but totally flirts over "harassment" (that was him right?), and Gwen who was more with the "why did I snog a prisoner" rather than "why did I snog a girl," and really, we're going to start wondering if Torchwood turns you gay, you know?Mebbe this means lots of gay in the Sarah Jane show too though?) Hilariously, I think the only main character who's not ambiguously coded is the one who's now dead. Nice turning the conventions on their head there Rusty! Although Owen kind of plays that back the other direction wht with his being a total dick and all. Hrm.
Overall, definitely worth a continued download. And, um. Analysis. Because I am a geek. Yes. (Seriously, part of my squee is "can I make a coherent statement of purpose out of this" and yes, no, really, it looks like a perfect vehicle for some of the arguments I want to make about critically reading sexuality trhough television. HI BIG DORK HERE.)
Hope they cut down on the "Jack will shag anything" innuendo. Hope they make Gwen less useless and more, you know, police-y. And also less of the "omg I am human" line because, um, unlike with the Doctor and Rose? Torchwood is human, thanks. Dear Rusty please let someone else write women on your shows. God, actually, doesn't that just play weird, the role of the woman in Rusty's TV viewpoints? You could really even make a case for it in Queer as Folk. Huh.
I can buy the Magic Jack part mainly because that says to me "Hey, all that godly power that Rose was channelling, she really didn't know how to use it, isn't it funny how it's spilled over?" Also, if you didn't watch Who, that bit with the hand would be weird. And if you do watch Who, it's just too heavy-handed. HAH.
I LOVE that Gwen tracked them through takeaway. I'm pretty easy for shows with some amusing punning (as seen above) and characters that interact decently and are all flawed (although, again, Gwen's newbieness needs to give way to PC Cooper a bit plz). I enjoyed it for the most part. Oh, and I do love how totally shady they are. "We're just here to test the glove." Hee.
And because I am easy, I was way too amused at the "Hi, the whole team's enjoying watching the two pretty ladies snog... wait, maybe we should stop it before someone gets disintegrated... OH YEAH" moment. I wonder how much it could be too gay, though, but we'll see how that goes in further "not just for the premiere ratings" episodes. *g* (It's really not often that I say "this could be too queer," but if we've got Captain Jack, Owen the Jack in training, Toshiko who totally fixated on the faux lesbianism, Ianto who "doesn't care" about Jack's sexuality but totally flirts over "harassment" (that was him right?), and Gwen who was more with the "why did I snog a prisoner" rather than "why did I snog a girl," and really, we're going to start wondering if Torchwood turns you gay, you know?
Overall, definitely worth a continued download. And, um. Analysis. Because I am a geek. Yes. (Seriously, part of my squee is "can I make a coherent statement of purpose out of this" and yes, no, really, it looks like a perfect vehicle for some of the arguments I want to make about critically reading sexuality trhough television. HI BIG DORK HERE.)
