Once Torchwood moved past the old lady and the fairies, it was promising: we got to gaze upon Captain Jack Hot Cakes sleeping and looking very naked. Sometimes it doesn’t take much to make me happy, but the show didn’t keep up John Barrowman’s nudity and I lost interest a little more than halfway through “Small Worlds” and tuned in to Seth Rogen on Saturday Night Live.
Is it just me or did that Weekend Update go on forever? And did Chevy Chase have a stroke?
How did Torchwood go from awesome to awful to misguided in two weeks? The Cybergirl episode last week could have been OK if Ianto was capable of emoting instead of coming across as an overeager child actor filming a commercial with his stage mommy swooping in every five seconds to straighten his lapels.
The Cybergirl was cool, but all she really did was walk stiffly after runaway Torchwood agents and get attacked by a pterodactyl.
I want her costume, though.
Then Cybergirl gave way to fairies. Generally, I like fairies and am OK with them being demonized, like they are in Torchwood. What bugs me about their inclusion is that they’re not alien life forms, they’re not from another dimension or alternate reality. That would be a cool re-imagining of fair folk.
In “Small Worlds” they’re elementals which Jack describes as “part myth, part spirit world and part reality jumbled together, mixed with “old moments and emotions”, all moving backwards and forwards through time and seen only out of the corner of one’s eye,” and it feels very out of place.
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I’m all for blending genres, but it should be in a way that makes sense for that particular universe and these fairies make no sense on Torchwood.
Captain Jack sleeping naked makes perfect sense, though.
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i hapen to think that small worlds is wonderfull! we get to see that Jack was in first world war, puting his date of arrival from the year 200.000 much longer before the present. the Jack from Doctor who is very diferentt from this jack (and still the same) And we start seeing the why. i like his scene whit the old lady, because SHE WASN´T A OLD LADY when he met her. And he is not afraid of doing what has to be done, like leting a little girl go away to be forever lost.
Yeeeah, I wasn’t sure what to make of the last two episodes. Add onto that John Barrowman’s insistence on emoting as if he’s clutching a golden statuette to his chest and I’m left disappointed.