Torchwood Miracle Day, episode 5
Aug. 12th, 2011 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carmen_ljMiracle Day, episode 5, I did not like.
It was stupid and unpleasant. It's been fairly consistently stupid the whole way through and I didn't mind much cause I was quite entertained. And episode four was pretty anvil-y but, y'know, RTD, so not exactly unexpected tralalala isn't Gwen great? But for the BIJJILLIONTH TIME RTD has decided to go on about how humanity is pretty much shit and he's doing it in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as he did stupidly and with a hefty dose of racism in Turn Left and that he did really well actually in Children of Earth and now he's just...I don't know. The anvils, the anvils are crushing me. It's like he's knocking on the inside of my telly screen yelling "do you see what I'm doing here? Do you get it? DO YOU?!!" and, yes, yes I do and you've already done this rather a lot and you did it REALLY WELL LAST TIME so why are we getting the exact same theme told in pretty much the same way YET AGAIN? But with everyone being extra stupid and/or evil?
Also, I could really do without all the body horror for the women's not!deaths while dudes get shot and heart attacks.
So my enthusiasm for the series is kind of dead. Oh well.
It was stupid and unpleasant. It's been fairly consistently stupid the whole way through and I didn't mind much cause I was quite entertained. And episode four was pretty anvil-y but, y'know, RTD, so not exactly unexpected tralalala isn't Gwen great? But for the BIJJILLIONTH TIME RTD has decided to go on about how humanity is pretty much shit and he's doing it in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as he did stupidly and with a hefty dose of racism in Turn Left and that he did really well actually in Children of Earth and now he's just...I don't know. The anvils, the anvils are crushing me. It's like he's knocking on the inside of my telly screen yelling "do you see what I'm doing here? Do you get it? DO YOU?!!" and, yes, yes I do and you've already done this rather a lot and you did it REALLY WELL LAST TIME so why are we getting the exact same theme told in pretty much the same way YET AGAIN? But with everyone being extra stupid and/or evil?
Also, I could really do without all the body horror for the women's not!deaths while dudes get shot and heart attacks.
So my enthusiasm for the series is kind of dead. Oh well.
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:04 pm (UTC)*nods* I was almost physically recoiling from the screen. Just so unnecessary. :(
It's like he's knocking on the inside of my telly screen yelling "do you see what I'm doing here? Do you get it?" and, yes, yes I do and you've already done this rather a lot and you did it REALLY WELL LAST TIME so why are we getting the exact same theme told in pretty much the same way YET AGAIN?
Word. If you only have one story to tell, you need to stop at some point...
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Date: 2011-08-12 04:18 pm (UTC)If you're going to tackle that sort of theme, you need a smarter script, a more compelling script and here it felt like it had nothing to say for itself beyond "look how shit humanity can be" and was just there for shock value. And the most frustrating thing for me was he's shown he can write about that sort of thing well. In COE, those scenes around the Cabinet table I thought were a brilliantly chilling parallel of the Wannsee Conference.
Word. If you only have one story to tell, you need to stop at some point...
I would also accept Have A Better Script or Examine A Different Facet or Don't Have Everyone Be Evil and/or A Right Eejit.