I will admit it, I miss Captain Jack and Torchwood.

[texanwitch]

What a great show.

I have been rewatching the shows again.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. He'll be around for a very long time.

After all, he DOES eventually turn into the Face of Boe, and the Face lives for billions of years.

See what ya miss by not keeping up with Doctor Who? :evilgrin:

[Bryan]

2. ....and it will be back next year as well

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/post/2010/08/tca-press-tour-starz-torchwood/1

[Blue_Tires]

5. sweet...

[HipChick]

3. I adore Torchwood..

good scripts..and I get to drool over captain jack

[Nevilledog]

4. We just finished watching all of them.

Hubby and I started a game called "Guess how many people Jack kisses this episode"...of either sex...LOL

[Withywindle]

6. I do too.

But 'Children of Earth' really left a baaaad taste in my mouth, for many reasons.


edit: for the record, it's not because I blame Jack for his actions. It's because I blame the writers for going for a college-freshman idea of The Moral Dilemma(tm) and acting like that was more important than the characters.

[texanwitch]

7. I woud never watch Children of Earth again.

It was to hard to watch the first time.

[Withywindle]

8. I hated it because I thought the melodrama was cheap.

This whole Jack backstory we'd never heard of before, with a daughter and grandchild out of nowhere? didn't buy it.

And for the sake of that school of penny-dreadful writing that has it that the death of a child--regardless of whether we'd ever heard of or cared about that character before--is automatically more OMG MEANINGFUL than the death of an adult? Trite. Weak. Doesn't work on me.

For me, it wasn't hard to watch because of the emotional pain. It was hard to watch because it was so badly written, emotionally false, out of keeping with the feel of the show for the past two seasons, and, IMO, totally unnecessary.

The writers failed to make me believe in it or feel it. And believe me, as a longtime cheesy SF fan, I am used to suspending disbelief. But I resent transparent attempts to manipulate me emotionally when the story itself doesn't come close to justifying that kind of payoff.