Tuning in to SciFi TV #150 – Last Call
Aug 12, 2011
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Surprises and disappointments abound… It’s the last call once again.
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00:42 True Blood
10:33 Torchwood
16:47 Death Valley
17:39 Warehouse 13
22:40 The Guild
25:14 Babylon 5
32:30 The Parsec Awards
34:26 SBMDB
35:40 SBMR Couch Casts
36:54 Our Podcast Feeds
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Unlike a lot of people who have tuned into the the latest Torchwood
season, I was never a fan of the show. Being a big Doctor Who fan, I
really _wanted_ to like it, and tried on several occasions to get into
it, but I couldn’t get past the (for me) unlikable characters and
‘alien of the week’ format. It got to the point where there were
several episodes in a row that devoted too much time to showing Gwen
and Rhys screaming at each other. Incidentally, sullen characters and
screaming matches were why I ultimately couldn’t bring myself to watch
Being Human past the first season, either.
Again, I always _wanted_ to like Torchwood so rather than fretting
over whether this new season would retain the traditional Torchwood
‘essence’, I thought it might be something akin to a reboot, and a
chance for me to, well, give the show another chance. Unfortunately,
like you guys, I am extremely disappointed in the quality and pacing
of the show so far. I’m free of any bias towards the way earlier
seasons may have done things, and the show still comes up wanting in a
multitude of areas. Were it not that I am desperate for genre shows
right now, I probably would have ditched it after the first three
episodes.