Torchwood is fun because of Captain Jack sleeping with every form of life in the multiverse. Stories aren't bad, aren't always brilliant. It's very watchable though.
Happy birthday to sj.
I should so very much be working on research. I can't get motivated because I'm worrying about my second essay result (worth half of the semester's grade), for which I am still waiting. Running into my course tutor and having a tense, awkward conversation in which she tried to avoid me and then asked when I'm seeing the course coordinator did not help.
Academia. It's evil and it eats you alive and I'm going back to school teaching. Where only the kids eat me alive...
Happy Anniversary to Beverly and her DH!!!
Torchwood is fun because of Captain Jack sleeping with every form of life in the multiverse.
Well, yes, there is that, too...
Wait, wait. Torchwood contains James Marsters ____ing John Barrowman?
I... just... it's out on DVD in the States, right?
I... just... it's out on DVD in the States, right?
Yep. Both seasons. James Marsters is in S2.
And just to give you some idea, his first ep has the title, "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" Subtle, they ain't.
Thanks, Barb! O, happy day.
Hippo birdies, sj! Anniversary happies, Bev!
I decided to bag going north for the 4th. The only day out of the weekend that looks decent is Sunday, and that's when I'd be heading back. If I'm going to go to Maine on a crappy weekend, I'd rather do it when a large number of other people aren't traveling as well. I have friends who are firing up the grill tomorrow, so I'll probably go hang with them instead.
TCG gave me a Star Trek Communicator keychain, amongst other goodies!
Zenkitty: a selection of rather spoilery clips from Season 2 to whet your appetite, should it be needful.
Torchwood
is a
Doctor Who
spinoff, but Captain Jack has had a HUGE amount of traumatic backstory in between the two, and basically Rusty Davis is playing at doing his own
Angel.
Complete with moody shots of angst-ridden immortal on rooftops in flapping coat. And genuine, bona fide, fuck-this-subtext,-let's-make-it-totally-textual Spike/Angel. And lots more shagging than AtS.
Torchwood
IS authorised crackfic, basically. It starts off by making MPreg canon in a throwaway comment within the first five minutes, and just keeps right on getting crackier. The writing is variable, but there are some really cracking episodes to compensate for the really quite dodgy ones. And there's always Captain Jack. The rest of the ensemble aren't served as well as they might be by the Season 1 scripts (Toshiko in particular), but they all have their moments, and I think in Season 2 all of them really got to shine.
I think it's well worth a look - it's certainly very different from any US shows currently airing.
