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kilroySo, I blew through the first season of Torchwood and a chunk of the second over the last week. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cereta was right; the series really starts standing tall somewhere around "Someone Keeps Killing Suzie" and pretty much stays there.
I like it. I didn't think I was going to, given the reviews of it I got, but it seems like almost everyone was unable to explain the basic draw of the show when they talked to me about it.
They're willing to go there, emotionally.
The show has complex relationships, terrible loss, more than one kind of love, layers of betrayal and repentance, people making bad decisions, and genuine moral dilemmas. The pain and the sex and the weirdness are all ways to dig deeper into the characters, and the writers are willing to sink mineshafts where other scifi shows merely scratch the surface.
As an audience member, that's worth a lot to me; getting inside characters like that makes me want to spend more time with them in a big way. I can forgive all the problems the show has for those beautiful, vulnerable moments.
cereta was right; the series really starts standing tall somewhere around "Someone Keeps Killing Suzie" and pretty much stays there. I like it. I didn't think I was going to, given the reviews of it I got, but it seems like almost everyone was unable to explain the basic draw of the show when they talked to me about it.
They're willing to go there, emotionally.
The show has complex relationships, terrible loss, more than one kind of love, layers of betrayal and repentance, people making bad decisions, and genuine moral dilemmas. The pain and the sex and the weirdness are all ways to dig deeper into the characters, and the writers are willing to sink mineshafts where other scifi shows merely scratch the surface.
As an audience member, that's worth a lot to me; getting inside characters like that makes me want to spend more time with them in a big way. I can forgive all the problems the show has for those beautiful, vulnerable moments.