Barkerburgh

Here there be spoilers.

Nota Bene: Do not highlight the text. You have been warned. (Seriously, who was dummy enough to think that Starbuck was really dead?)

Well, I’ve finally watched most of the first season of Torchwood. I really liked most of it, but was sharply disappointed by the periclimactic scenes of the finale when they brought the demon Abaddon out of the Cardiff Rift, who very nearly killed Captain Jack.

I missed seeing the one with the old lady who saw the fairies near the standing stones because both copies I have were damaged. It was a little frustrating, because it deals with fairy beliefs in Celtic Britain, that was the one I wanted to see the most. Ah, well.

There was one episode with the Resurrection Glove that was very well done and quite disturbing for television science fiction, even British TV SF, who tend to do a better job of it than the Americans - at least the stuff that we see over here. To be fair we see pretty much all American TV SF, even the cancelled-after-the-third-episode shit but only the Brit stuff deemed good enough to import.

I really liked the ambience of the season finale when Tosh and Captain Jack were thrown back in time to the 1940s dance hall during the Cardiff Blitz. Although I think that Gwen’s tracking down of the two halves of the second part of Tosh’s Rift control equation could have been done as more of a puzzle than plain dumb luck.

As creator and executive producer - and executive story-teller, Russell T. Davies is obviously both colour blind and sexuality blind, and draws no unnecessary attention to it, other than to advance the story. Witness Ianto’s love for his black Cyberman woman, the various ‘mixed-race‘ couples that are just tertiary and quaternary characters off the streets of Cardiff, and so on. Witness also the filmy, willowy female alien who got Toshiko hot, Captain Jack’s surprisingly hot full-face liplock with the real Captain Jack back in the 1940s (not complaining, just very surprised…) and Jack’s kissing Ianto after Gwen’s kiss brought him back to life.

All in all, lotsa fun. Go, Davies.

(Happy, Reid?)

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