Torchwood on Points of View

[galadriel1010]

I thought this might be of interest, to see what people are saying about it on the BBC Points of View message board.

5 threads on Torchwood, summarised
Responses have ranged from 'dreadful' to 'must-watch TV'. Lots of complaints about the length of the trailer and the spoilers it contained, far, far more about the Americanisation. Some commenters thought that the English and Welsh mocking was out of line because it seemed to be for the American audience rather than self-deprecating as it has been in the past. Quite a few complaints about various plot holes and lazy writing. The general response seems to be OK or below.

One interesting thread was complaining that the Welsh accents ruined it. That poster got shouted down as an idiot pretty quickly, though.

This quote I have to share: "Sometimes I think RTD is actually just a highly smug collections of sponges that wears glasses."

Comments

[welsh-scotsman.livejournal.com]

that's interesting about the accents ;) i also wondered if gwen sounded more 'welsh' than she was or if it's just cos i hadn't heard her for a while, and honestly, i found bill pullman's character very hard to understand when he was talking to that guard guy - it was as if he were mumbling his lines and i had to focus really hard to understand so maybe it works both ways.

i also found the english/welsh mocking to be slightly out of line but i can see where they were coming from so am choosing to take it as humourous. after all, to be fair in c of e, gwen said about jabs and visas and so on when going into england so maybe it was the same thing.

also, i think the trailer was made that long to fit the bbc? maybe the american channel had a lot of adverts breaks? i dont know but that could be a reason. i dont know if america got that long a trailer ;)

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Paedophiles. They all talk all mumbly and creepy. That's why they're so easy to spo.. oh wait.