Review - Torchwood: The Blood Line

[ed_rex]

Where have you gone, Russell T, Russell T?

 

One of the most shockingly bad television series in recent memory crawled to a bloody close on Friday night.

The end of Torchwood: Miracle Day was not quite as obscenely amusing as some had predicted, but its climax prompted laughter in this reviewer, not tears.

No dangling plot-lines were tied up, no extraneous characters rescued from irrelevancy. The program is over — and so too, probably, is the franchise — but not even the most generous critic could with a straight face say that it was concluded.

Snark? Oh yes. For snark and bullet points and a reviewer's exhausted post-mortem, visit, Where have you gone, Russell T, Russell T?

Comments

[mrs_tribble]

I have yet to see the final episode (Thursday for me) but I couldn't resist a peek at the spoilery review.

I am totally not comfortable with a child-rapist and murderer being some kind of hero. I don't care that he's played by Bill Pullman - I'd like to remember him for Independance Day!

Predictable, much?

Totally belittling Rose as Bad Wolf and how she made Jack and his sudden immortality a fixed point in time, much?

Why is it that I desperately want Jack, Rhys, PC Andy and Rex sent over to Moffatt's Doctor Who for saving? Torchwood *really* should have died with CoE. I haven't even been able to *like* Jack throughout this train-wreck!

All (and almost every) kinds of wrong

[ed_rex]

I've said before that I have no objection in principal to feature a child-murderer as a major character, but there ought by god be a point to doing so! As it is, Danes ended up as a rather pointless (almost literal) spear-carrier, his presumably satirical roles as messiah or corporate pitch-man utterly forgotten. (But I guess I'm repeating myself, aren't I?)

Totally belittling Rose as Bad Wolf and how she made Jack and his sudden immortality a fixed point in time, much?

Completely. And it doesn't even make retroactive sense. With luck, Torchwood is dead and Doctor Who will just pretend this all never happened.

Re: All (and almost every) kinds of wrong

[mrs_tribble]

I defy anybody to say that this pile of foetid dingos kidneys is canon, because it's not. It didn't happen in Doctor Who. Jack was simply a time travelling, mortal conman until Rose looked into the heart of the TARDIS to go back and save him and the Doctor, and then suddenly he couldn't die. That is canon and Rusty can bite me :P