Yeah, me too. I just figured I'd find that a bit more inherently interesting. But it's early yet. 10 episodes...
I suspect your speculation is right. And I do remember about an hour after watching the episode suddenly realizing--in a state of bored, slightly sarcastic pseudo-panic--'oh no, but now how will someone sacrifice themself to save the world?!?' But your suggestion should do well, heh. I'd bet money on it, actually. I mean, the connection is SO OBVIOUS! (Plus there's the webisode thing which I watched, and apparently Jack was kidnapped back in 2007, plus someone wrote about how 'the government' - or whoever - were planning to eliminate death. A week before it happened. He then gets shot. DON'T go looking for it, it was VERY VERY dull.)
A self-contained story? I know what you mean, though. More of a mini-series than a tv show. *nods* And it's that thing of the characters beign subservient to the story... (In The House of the Dead, the plot is so RIDICULOUSLY carefully tailored to the characters that it makes me laugh. Oh Torchwood. I love you when you're daft. ETA: Plus, there's MAGIC PEBBLES! There is no level on which I don't love it...) ETA2: This review OMG!. It's very positive. Drooling, almost. And sums up *perfectly* what the problems are (although the reviewer sees them as strengths).
Rather confused as to how anyone got such a huge fandom out of that. It can't *just* be the slash, can it? Well, there's the slash. And, then it draws on a long history - Sherlock Holmes has been told, and re-told, goodness knows how many times. Only now they're all up to date. And have gorgeous cheekbones.
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10 episodes...
I suspect your speculation is right. And I do remember about an hour after watching the episode suddenly realizing--in a state of bored, slightly sarcastic pseudo-panic--'oh no, but now how will someone sacrifice themself to save the world?!?' But your suggestion should do well, heh.
I'd bet money on it, actually. I mean, the connection is SO OBVIOUS! (Plus there's the webisode thing which I watched, and apparently Jack was kidnapped back in 2007, plus someone wrote about how 'the government' - or whoever - were planning to eliminate death. A week before it happened. He then gets shot. DON'T go looking for it, it was VERY VERY dull.)
A self-contained story? I know what you mean, though. More of a mini-series than a tv show.
*nods* And it's that thing of the characters beign subservient to the story... (In The House of the Dead, the plot is so RIDICULOUSLY carefully tailored to the characters that it makes me laugh. Oh Torchwood. I love you when you're daft. ETA: Plus, there's MAGIC PEBBLES! There is no level on which I don't love it...) ETA2: This review OMG!. It's very positive. Drooling, almost. And sums up *perfectly* what the problems are (although the reviewer sees them as strengths).
Rather confused as to how anyone got such a huge fandom out of that. It can't *just* be the slash, can it?
Well, there's the slash. And, then it draws on a long history - Sherlock Holmes has been told, and re-told, goodness knows how many times. Only now they're all up to date. And have gorgeous cheekbones.