Story: Torchwoood: Captain Jack Harkness
Written By: Catherine Tregenna
Length: 50 Minutes
Year: 2007
Of the first season, this might be among the best. That doesn't mean it has unresolved plot elements and gaping plot holes you could drive a car through, but it is mostly a character piece, and as a character piece it actually focuses on one of the leads. This is rare, for as you know, only Out of Time has attempted to study characters, and it instead focused on outsiders. Good plan.
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So we get to know a little bit more about Jack, how he got his name, and his thoughts on war, and the many he's fought in. Jack is complex, and for once in this season he has finally seemed like a character, and not just a tool to serve the plot whenever the writers need a quick fix to get themselves out of the corner they've wrote themselves into.
I liked this episode, its weird, kind of touching, and has a creepy villain. The villain in the end goes nowhere and the writer leaves it unresolved...but that is not the worst thing.
I think the plot resolution is weak, and the story kind of just ends...but it works in its own way. Owen really needs to get over the 1953 chick, because the only real evidence I saw that he was IN LOVE was that he told the audience it. Love in TV and movies needs to be seen, not explained to us. It's called a visual medium.
NEXT TIME: The Great Devourer
Written By: Catherine Tregenna
Length: 50 Minutes
Year: 2007
Of the first season, this might be among the best. That doesn't mean it has unresolved plot elements and gaping plot holes you could drive a car through, but it is mostly a character piece, and as a character piece it actually focuses on one of the leads. This is rare, for as you know, only Out of Time has attempted to study characters, and it instead focused on outsiders. Good plan.
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I liked this episode, its weird, kind of touching, and has a creepy villain. The villain in the end goes nowhere and the writer leaves it unresolved...but that is not the worst thing.
I think the plot resolution is weak, and the story kind of just ends...but it works in its own way. Owen really needs to get over the 1953 chick, because the only real evidence I saw that he was IN LOVE was that he told the audience it. Love in TV and movies needs to be seen, not explained to us. It's called a visual medium.
NEXT TIME: The Great Devourer
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