tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7082013101102660802.post8652132612635329343..comments2023-05-28T13:48:55.734+01:00Comments on Your Friends and Neighbors: The blog that instills no anger, only disappointment.Brigonoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05284882511370405132noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7082013101102660802.post-40111205130093446162011-09-30T00:44:02.418+01:002011-09-30T00:44:02.418+01:00"losing the plot" is apparently easily d..."losing the plot" is apparently easily done and I know this from attempting such things, but then I'm a bum on a pc who doodles comics in his free time and not a functioning studio with a small army of writers and script editors. I have an excuse.<br />A shame about Torchwood, but then it was part-produced and part-written by the American bankrollers this time out, and tailored more to their timeslot sensibilities. And that ending with the pinks rocks being behind it all was especially terrible - did I imagine it or were they looking <i>laterally</i> towards the other side of the planet? I know we're supposed to take the science with a pinch of salt, but it's a bit much to ask your audience to forget what "down" is. Mind you, it's still going, and if it's still going it can improve again.<br /><br />I'm trying to think of anything quite as fun and smart as Doctor Who on tv at the moment, but I'm drawing a blank as the level of exuberance on display is usually best found in comedies like Community. I'm looking forward to the season finale something rotten, now.Brigonoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05284882511370405132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7082013101102660802.post-84038543663709563462011-09-29T06:40:39.341+01:002011-09-29T06:40:39.341+01:00Hello Mr B:- I must admit, I'm loving it too. ...Hello Mr B:- I must admit, I'm loving it too. The Splendid Wife and I rarely miss an episode as it goes out, and if we do, we arrange a date to make sure we see it ASAP. Not with the fervor of fans, because of neither of us are that, but because it's fun and smart too, and there's not much TV around that's both.<br /><br />But was there ever a car-crash the equal of the last Torchwood series, which, after the rather splendid Children Of Earth, was simply terrible. An adequate first episode, a fun second, and then .... somebody forgot to write a story.<br /><br />Easily done, I suppose.Colin Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15246781681702128600noreply@blogger.com