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Oct. 26th, 2006 08:52 amSaw the second episode of Torchwood last night.
I like the character I will refer to as Weaselboy. I can believe in him as a person. Gwen, on the other hand, is rather insulting as audience proxy; if they don't start letting her be a cop and using those abilities soon, she's gonna turn out to be the Ma-Ti to the rest of the team. Heart, the most singularly useless element.
"You've forgotten what it means to be human" only ever seems to get spoken by the least intelligent character on any given television program, have you noticed that? It's like the accusation of the anti-intellectual against the people who use their brains. Not that it's not called for sometimes, especially in the real world, but how come it's never anybody who displays actual smarts who says it?
I like the character I will refer to as Weaselboy. I can believe in him as a person. Gwen, on the other hand, is rather insulting as audience proxy; if they don't start letting her be a cop and using those abilities soon, she's gonna turn out to be the Ma-Ti to the rest of the team. Heart, the most singularly useless element.
"You've forgotten what it means to be human" only ever seems to get spoken by the least intelligent character on any given television program, have you noticed that? It's like the accusation of the anti-intellectual against the people who use their brains. Not that it's not called for sometimes, especially in the real world, but how come it's never anybody who displays actual smarts who says it?
