A few things didn't gel for me, and I certainly didn't click with the show the way I did with Doctor Who, but it looks promissing enough.
Yeah... that's the way I feel about it too.
It's standing at about the same level for me right now as Lost or BSG right now, i.e. certainly interesting and entertaining enough, and definitely enough to keep watching, but not making the kind of impression either of those shows did in their first season. (And neither of them made the kind of impression that Buffy or Doctor Who or B5 for example did for me, leading me to search out fandom, getting into spin-offs in other media, etc.)
The nice thing is that the characters (even Owen in his yucky creepy deeply disgusting way) all look interesting and promising enough, which is always a good thing for a show to build on - one can be sure that even if some particular single episode/story isn't all that great, having a good team of characters there is often just the thing that still makes it worthwhile to keep watching.
As for Jack, I really do hope that him being sort of left hanging around is just a beginning thing and the writers *will* figure out what to do with him in upcoming episodes. He was far too good a character in Who to be virtually ignored the way he was in the first two Torchwood episodes. I think John Barrowman's decent enough as an actor, certainly more than just a pretty face, even if he maybe isn't the greatest character actor ever, so I'd certainly blame the writers at this point for Jack coming off so... almost ineffectual and bland, instead of cool and mysterious, which, I assume, must have been the actual intent. (Also, based on those two episodes, I don't think Barrowman has the on-screen physical presence to carry the character when he's not given anything to work with, but then, not that many actors do, and that's more a physical thing than a skill, IMHO. It is something that writers/producers ought to realise though.)
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Date: 26 October 2006 11:44 (UTC)Yeah... that's the way I feel about it too.
It's standing at about the same level for me right now as Lost or BSG right now, i.e. certainly interesting and entertaining enough, and definitely enough to keep watching, but not making the kind of impression either of those shows did in their first season. (And neither of them made the kind of impression that Buffy or Doctor Who or B5 for example did for me, leading me to search out fandom, getting into spin-offs in other media, etc.)
The nice thing is that the characters (even Owen in his yucky creepy deeply disgusting way) all look interesting and promising enough, which is always a good thing for a show to build on - one can be sure that even if some particular single episode/story isn't all that great, having a good team of characters there is often just the thing that still makes it worthwhile to keep watching.
As for Jack, I really do hope that him being sort of left hanging around is just a beginning thing and the writers *will* figure out what to do with him in upcoming episodes. He was far too good a character in Who to be virtually ignored the way he was in the first two Torchwood episodes. I think John Barrowman's decent enough as an actor, certainly more than just a pretty face, even if he maybe isn't the greatest character actor ever, so I'd certainly blame the writers at this point for Jack coming off so... almost ineffectual and bland, instead of cool and mysterious, which, I assume, must have been the actual intent. (Also, based on those two episodes, I don't think Barrowman has the on-screen physical presence to carry the character when he's not given anything to work with, but then, not that many actors do, and that's more a physical thing than a skill, IMHO. It is something that writers/producers ought to realise though.)