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Torchwood: Miracle Day

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Unfortunately I’ve not had the chance to write anything recently due to moving home and focusing on learning to drive and studying for my theory test, which I did last month and passed. Now it’s all about focusing on my Practical Test. Since moving in to my new home I haven’t had the internet, and more than likely won’t now for another month due to complications with not having an active phone line in the house. That said I am going to still try to post things as often as possible now I have settled in and can use my Mobile Broadband Dongle and my house mates unlimited internet mobile broadband.

And what better time to start writing than after the UK debut of the latest season of Torchwood.

Torchwood: Miracle Day is the latest season of the Doctor spin off show Torchwood. This series is a ten episodes long and has been produced in the US by BBC America instead of BBC Wales. So obviously it has been americanised, but that isn’t that much of a problem, I mean America makes some good drama’s and the writer is still Russell T Davies.

The episode over all was good but was over quite quickly and instead of leaving me wanting more it left me unsatisfied, the cliff hanger was much of a cliff hanger, more of a “lets put the next bit in the next episode because we’ve run out of time” scenario. But that said I did enjoy.

My main gripe is with the special effects, there was a scene that involved and RPG and it just didn’t look right. There was ways of doing the same scene without needing to show the rocket launching and having it look so unreal. But the helicopter crashing, that was almost believable considering a minute earlier we had just witnessed the RPG fire.

The music was another thing that didn’t sit right, although it did have the actual Torchwood theme play at key moments, the rest of the music especially during the action scenes was very cliche generic Hollywood action scene music.

At the end of the episode it showed a teaser for the rest of the season and it does look good I must admit, it’s not going to be anything jaw droppingly new or amazing but its the stories I like, all adding to the lore and history of Torchwood and the Doctor Who universe.

I think i’ll be fully decided in a weeks time after I’ve watched the next episode especially now things will be settled in and it can focus on the point of the story.

No-one can die.

Ps. It’s good to be back WordPress.

Doctor Which?

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So Doctor Who started a few weeks ago, as you can probably tell from my blog.

And you know what? I like Matt Smith. There. I said it.

“Haters gonna hate”, I get that but really? He’s not bad. He’s good in fact. He must have been picked for a reason over all the other actors?

I’ve been watching the 2005 series with Christopher Eccleston again and I really enjoyed them, sure I preferred David Tennant, but he was with us for longer than Eccleston.

So please people, give Matt Smith a chance.

Even Arthur Darvill as Rory is growing on me. The only character I don’t like is Amy Pond, the companion, the other person we are SUPPOSED to care about. Karen Gillan is a good actress and she plays Amy perfectly. My trouble lies with head writer Steven Moffat’s writing of Amy. She’s weak and useless and just gets in the way whilst constantly shouting for The Doctor. (Although I will admit she is starting to get some balls, see Season 6 – Episode 3: The Curse of the Black Spot, when she was a Pirate.)

What bugs me most is they used sex appeal to get us to like the character with the “kissagram” thing. Just call her a stripper and have done with it.

Rose Tyler and Martha Jones, they were good companions and they actually helped in situations. Amy, like I said, just gets herself in trouble and calls for The Doctor.

I think at the moment to have 3 companions:
- Amy
- Rory
- River
Is too many, although River is back in Stormcage now but we know she’ll be back eventually.

Since Moffat took over the show seems to have become, I dunno, more cheesy almost. It’s lost that sense of dread and drama and the need to care for the characters that the series had when Russell T. Davies was in the lead.

I recently rewatched Rose’s departure from the show and I cried like a baby, and I’m not afraid to admit that. Those tears were a testimony to strong writing. When Rory had died, like each of the gazillion times, I’ve not been upset, last series I even thought “thank god.”

I’m just hoping that this mid-season secret will be worth the wait until it’s revealed and it will keep me hooked for the rest of the season after summer.

So to sum up, I’m loving this season, and I loved last season just not AS much as the old days before the change over, but I will keep loyal to The Doctor.