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When I got changed after boxing class last night, my arms decided to remind me that I'd bee holding them at eye-level for an hour. Ow.
I'm having trouble typing today without my hands shaking from fatigue.
Ow.
In other news - God, I love TORCHWOOD. When it is good, it's very good. So for, Jack's messiah complex is under control, Gwen Cooper is being flat-out awesome and Ianto continues to wear natty, fitted three-piece suits and be smart. TORCHWOOD also seems to be managing Gwen's relationship with civillian husband Rhys (almost certainly going to end up replacing Ianto as Torchwood's tea-boy I think) without falling into any nasty cliches. Two hours in and I am still impressed.
Most of all, I'm impressed by the cleverness of the storytelling - as with the best of DOCTOR WHO, the creepy doesn't come from gory effects but the unusual and unexpected. It's story not spectacle that makes TORCHWOOD compelling, ( spoiler )Those budgetary constraints drive the narrative cleverness to think around what they can't afford that makes DOCTOR WHO and TORCHWOOD so satisfying. Imagine how much time Michael Bay might have had to spend coming up with a plot for TRANSFORMERS 2 if he hadn't had $300 million to spend on robot fights. Ditto McG and TERMINATOR SALVATION, JJ Abrams and STAR TREK (which is the best of the lot and still bloody illogical). Less, as they say, is more and God love the Beeb for it.
I'm having trouble typing today without my hands shaking from fatigue.
Ow.
In other news - God, I love TORCHWOOD. When it is good, it's very good. So for, Jack's messiah complex is under control, Gwen Cooper is being flat-out awesome and Ianto continues to wear natty, fitted three-piece suits and be smart. TORCHWOOD also seems to be managing Gwen's relationship with civillian husband Rhys (almost certainly going to end up replacing Ianto as Torchwood's tea-boy I think) without falling into any nasty cliches. Two hours in and I am still impressed.
Most of all, I'm impressed by the cleverness of the storytelling - as with the best of DOCTOR WHO, the creepy doesn't come from gory effects but the unusual and unexpected. It's story not spectacle that makes TORCHWOOD compelling, ( spoiler )Those budgetary constraints drive the narrative cleverness to think around what they can't afford that makes DOCTOR WHO and TORCHWOOD so satisfying. Imagine how much time Michael Bay might have had to spend coming up with a plot for TRANSFORMERS 2 if he hadn't had $300 million to spend on robot fights. Ditto McG and TERMINATOR SALVATION, JJ Abrams and STAR TREK (which is the best of the lot and still bloody illogical). Less, as they say, is more and God love the Beeb for it.
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