At long last, I chime in on the subject of Torchwood (I know you've all been waiting for this). My verdict? It's crap. I'll keep watching it, because it takes a lot for me to give up once I've started on a show, but I'm very disappointed. The plots are dull, confused, and repetitive. The acting is second-rate (how could I not have noticed what a terrible actor John Barrowman is when I saw him on Dr. Who? Plus which, his excessively capped teeth are far too large for his mouth, which is disconcerting). The special effects, though expensive, are somehow cheesy. Here's testimony to the extent of my dislike: I went to the trouble of transferring seven episodes to a DVD for my mother and ended up just deleting them all, so convinced was I that she'd loathe them.
P.S. In the spirit of full disclosure, I must confess that Babylon 5 was an important part of my life ten years ago, and I will forever have a fondness for it.
P.P.S. Is it terrible message board etiquette to have necromanced this thread? It's a quandary: on the one hand, one is urged not to start a new thread when an existing one will work, but, one the other, one is discouraged from posting in threads that have been inactive for a fair while. What to do, what to do?
