Torchwood Miracle Day, episode 5

[carmen_lj]

Miracle 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.

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[fyrdrakken]

Elsewhere on the friends list, the episode reviews have generally been along the lines of, "Dear God, what is this shit?!" only less positive. I think a week or two back I stopped and tallied up how many shows I watch are currently airing new episodes, and realized I'm only getting about five hours of new TV a week (unless I find an interesting documentary on some learning channel, or unless a movie I'd vaguely wanted to see pops up on cable). That's really not enough for all the knitting I'm trying to get done -- and I haven't even started Xmas knitting yet.

So I don't have a lot of options. But at least it gives me background noise while I'm putting rows onto a sweater sleeve, so my hour isn't entirely wasted by it.