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The Movie Thread Reloaded

Started by Apparition, January 03, 2018, 11:10:35 PM

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HappyDaze

#1725
April 13, 2025, 12:15:05 AM
Quote from: yosemitemike on April 12, 2025, 10:21:14 PMI finally got around to watching the rest of Torchwood.  There are good things about it.  I like the characters though they killed off my favorite character midway through.  It looks good for a TV show.  It's all very dramatic.  The writing is something else though.  The season 4 finale has this big mystery they built up but, in the end, they didn't really try to explain it.  There was a McGuffin.  It did this thing.  What is it?  How does it work?  Why does it do this?  They just threw up their hands and said, "I dunno". 

Spoiler
There's this thing that goes through the center of the Earth from Shanghai to Buenos Aires.  It sets the life expectancy of the whole world to that of people living near either end.  How does it control the life spans of everyone in the world to fit them to this average?  No explanation.  Does it control everyone's lives and kill them off to maintain the average?  What is it?  No explanation.  What does Jack blood, which they repeatedly say has no special properties, have to do with anything and how does giving it the blood change everyone's life expectancies so that no one can die?  *shrug*  The whole thing just completely falls apart if you think about it at all.


Maybe it's Khan's "super-blood" from ST: Into Darkness?

yosemitemike

#1726
April 13, 2025, 12:29:22 AM
Maybe it's Khan's "super-blood" from ST: Into Darkness?
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I might buy that if they didn't say the opposite several times every episode.
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Omega

#1727
April 13, 2025, 02:25:49 AM
Quote from: yosemitemike on April 12, 2025, 10:21:14 PMI finally got around to watching the rest of Torchwood.  There are good things about it.  I like the characters though they killed off my favorite character midway through.  It looks good for a TV show.  It's all very dramatic.  The writing is something else though.  The season 4 finale has this big mystery they built up but, in the end, they didn't really try to explain it.  There was a McGuffin.  It did this thing.  What is it?  How does it work?  Why does it do this?  They just threw up their hands and said, "I dunno". 

Spoiler
There's this thing that goes through the center of the Earth from Shanghai to Buenos Aires.  It sets the life expectancy of the whole world to that of people living near either end.  How does it control the life spans of everyone in the world to fit them to this average?  No explanation.  Does it control everyone's lives and kill them off to maintain the average?  What is it?  No explanation.  What does Jack blood, which they repeatedly say has no special properties, have to do with anything and how does giving it the blood change everyone's life expectancies so that no one can die?  *shrug*  The whole thing just completely falls apart if you think about it at all.



New Who increasingly turned into a live action cartoon.

Bedrockbrendan

#1728
April 13, 2025, 02:26:01 PM
Quote from: yosemitemike on April 12, 2025, 10:21:14 PMI finally got around to watching the rest of Torchwood.  There are good things about it.  I like the characters though they killed off my favorite character midway through.  It looks good for a TV show.  It's all very dramatic.  The writing is something else though.  The season 4 finale has this big mystery they built up but, in the end, they didn't really try to explain it.  There was a McGuffin.  It did this thing.  What is it?  How does it work?  Why does it do this?  They just threw up their hands and said, "I dunno". 

Spoiler
There's this thing that goes through the center of the Earth from Shanghai to Buenos Aires.  It sets the life expectancy of the whole world to that of people living near either end.  How does it control the life spans of everyone in the world to fit them to this average?  No explanation.  Does it control everyone's lives and kill them off to maintain the average?  What is it?  No explanation.  What does Jack blood, which they repeatedly say has no special properties, have to do with anything and how does giving it the blood change everyone's life expectancies so that no one can die?  *shrug*  The whole thing just completely falls apart if you think about it at all.



I really liked Torchwood. The two kills midway through were kind of surprising (both those characters brought something useful to the show I think). It also becomes a very different series after that (it always felt a little like 24 but it feels a lot like 24 to me starting in season 3). That last season was definitely strange. I don't know what the writers were smoking on that one
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