It's like CoE - Torchwood made a vehicle for RTD's agenda. Which you know... His show. But it'd be better without that label. Well, and yet in CoE I don't know that there was a very focused agenda, you know? It was strongly story/ideas-driven, and inevitably some of his favorite targets came away looking pretty tarred . . . but mostly it was messy. BSG was good at that too--it did sci-fi as political/social/historical allegory constantly, but it was very good at doing it in a loose way that could be alluding to many, many specific situations and in which it was nearly impossible to draw pat conclusions. It's sounding like MD isn't quite managing that . . . finesse?
Poor Torchwood--continually in the throes of growing pains.
Oh I have watched (and re-watched and re-re-watched) that many, MANY times. Possibly the greatest trailer EVER. Gives me goosebumps. *flails* SO TRUE. I love when trailers reach the level of art <3
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Well, and yet in CoE I don't know that there was a very focused agenda, you know? It was strongly story/ideas-driven, and inevitably some of his favorite targets came away looking pretty tarred . . . but mostly it was messy. BSG was good at that too--it did sci-fi as political/social/historical allegory constantly, but it was very good at doing it in a loose way that could be alluding to many, many specific situations and in which it was nearly impossible to draw pat conclusions. It's sounding like MD isn't quite managing that . . . finesse?
Poor Torchwood--continually in the throes of growing pains.
Oh I have watched (and re-watched and re-re-watched) that many, MANY times. Possibly the greatest trailer EVER. Gives me goosebumps. *flails*
SO TRUE. I love when trailers reach the level of art <3