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Torchwood is to perverted...
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I have to agree with Ninjacore. The first season was BAD and it was the hetero stuff (the homosexuality was pretty well done) that almost ruined it.
Second season was better but they killed my two favorite characters, Owen and Tosh.
CoE was the best. Yeah it's a hard slog to get their but it was worth it.
Second season was better but they killed my two favorite characters, Owen and Tosh.
CoE was the best. Yeah it's a hard slog to get their but it was worth it.
If you ask why people have random sex without any further motive, you have been doing it wrong.
What's wrong with having a TV show about people having random sex anyway?
I doubt I'd watch it but I surely wouldn't call it "perverted" either.
The phrase "The sex doesn't serve a purpose and doesn't further character development!!!" is kinda pointless considering all the random action scenes and violence in movies that are just there to entertain or shock people, too.
Perverted? Really?
I doubt I'd watch it but I surely wouldn't call it "perverted" either.
The phrase "The sex doesn't serve a purpose and doesn't further character development!!!" is kinda pointless considering all the random action scenes and violence in movies that are just there to entertain or shock people, too.
Perverted? Really?
The worst thing in season one was the stupid giant devil under Cardiff. Bitching about the sex seems like an underdeveloped esthetic sense and an overdeveloped prudery. Captain Jack Harkness may have been the best episode in season one (I prefer Out of Time.) The date raping thing was a direct outrgrowth of the whole dark and gritty cliche thing RTD can't seem to get rid of.
You just like Eric.
There's nothing wrong with a show about random sex, and are you not paying attention, most of us are saying it's not perverted at all, it just doesn't make for a good show most of the time.
Damn straight. If I have one cavil it's that they don't let the gay characters get their kicks quite so explicitly. Although by season 3 they start to have fun with it, when it became evident that the vampires, especially the indescribably shaggable Eric, will fuck anybody with equal relish.
I thought the sex in Torchwood was pretty unremarkable. *shrug*
Random sex scenes are less irritating to me than random violent scenes. I simply didn't find them notable enough for them to make a good show or a bad show so I'm surprised the topic even came up.
Funny how True Blood manages it, but I guess it's because they don't pretend to be doing anything else.
The key word here is entertain. Random sex is fine. I don't care if it happens, but there are simply better ways to handle it on TV when you're trying to tell a story. Torchwood handled it poorly. It wasn't entertaining; it was pointless and awkward.
And to me they stuck out like a sore thumb.
I think sex or violence can detract or add to a show in equal measure. Either done pointlessly is annoying in my view.
But real life isn't a narrative.
But real life isn't a narrative.
And tv/books/media always have to follow those narrative logics?
You fail at postmodernism.
You mean like real life sex is for many people?
But real life isn't a narrative.
And tv/books/media always have to follow those narrative logics?
You fail at postmodernism.
Not always, but then they have to be setting out for a show that doesn't or have reason when they don't. Otherwise it's just badly done.
The main problem with Torchwood season 1 was that it took itself too seriously for the quality of writing. Seasons 2 and 3 both addressed this in different ways.
Season 2 had the same sorts of stories but just took itself a lot less seriously, and was the better for it. Season 3 dialed the serious way back up, but also managed to bring the writing up to match.
Season 2 had the same sorts of stories but just took itself a lot less seriously, and was the better for it. Season 3 dialed the serious way back up, but also managed to bring the writing up to match.
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