TORCHWOOD TW01E10 - OUT OF TIME - REVIEW
A REVIEW OF TORCHWOOD EPISODE 10 - OUT OF TIME. Spoilers abound, but I don't know how to break the post (Which is unusual, normally I'm really good at breaking technical things) so..yeah.
Okay, well. I'll be brief with this: I didn't like it. My original just-after rating was 3.2/10. Lets see if I can talk myself into changing it.
It started alright - the idea of people being lost in time, falling through a hole into a world that they otherwise would never know, that is completely different from anything they've experienced before. Wanderers, lost in the fourth dimension. And Torchwood were the only people that know of how they could possibly have fallen. And I think that the whole "lost in time" theme is a strong theme, if explored well. It was explored in this episode, but.. not well enough. It was certainly explored ENOUGH (Practically every scene had "omg we have nothing left!" and "omg it's so NEW!", but.. that was seemingly all there was to the episode.
It didn't 'pick up pace' towards the end, or seem to get any stronger, as far as I could see, except in one case.
So, now to focus on the characters.
John - The business man, who's lost everything. His name is all he's got left, and he doesn't want to give it up. He seems to want to keep the three lost people together, not to get mingled with the 'new' world. The prospect of the new world is too overpowering, and drives him crazy. He doesn't want to live with nothing left. And his resolve not to gets the better of him. His storyline was, in my opinion, by *FAR* the strongest of the three.
Diane - ..Seemed to me just to be an excuse to insert random rompings into the episode. Her storyline followed a more passionate approach. As I have commented on Tamino Badwolf, it seems that you would have had to have experienced something like this in order to be absorbed by this. I haven't, and so I wasn't. Weakest of the three.
Other person - Seemed to not be doing much, actually. Besides having trouble adjusting, she seemed to have been inserted into the plot just to create Gwen/Rhys argument.
I think that combining the three ideas together only made it a bit messy. It would have been better, in my opinion, to just concentrate for longer on John's storyline, which I found the most compelling. As I say, some people's opinions may differ. It could be the boring non-emotional logical robotic personality of me that watched this, but I wasn't remotely interested in Diane's or TheOtherPerson's storylines.
And finally, I will re-rate this episode. I'll rate it at a 5.6/10. Decent, could be much much better, not my preferred choice of viewing on a Sunday evening. But at least the rating is higher.
Okay, well. I'll be brief with this: I didn't like it. My original just-after rating was 3.2/10. Lets see if I can talk myself into changing it.
It started alright - the idea of people being lost in time, falling through a hole into a world that they otherwise would never know, that is completely different from anything they've experienced before. Wanderers, lost in the fourth dimension. And Torchwood were the only people that know of how they could possibly have fallen. And I think that the whole "lost in time" theme is a strong theme, if explored well. It was explored in this episode, but.. not well enough. It was certainly explored ENOUGH (Practically every scene had "omg we have nothing left!" and "omg it's so NEW!", but.. that was seemingly all there was to the episode.
It didn't 'pick up pace' towards the end, or seem to get any stronger, as far as I could see, except in one case.
So, now to focus on the characters.
John - The business man, who's lost everything. His name is all he's got left, and he doesn't want to give it up. He seems to want to keep the three lost people together, not to get mingled with the 'new' world. The prospect of the new world is too overpowering, and drives him crazy. He doesn't want to live with nothing left. And his resolve not to gets the better of him. His storyline was, in my opinion, by *FAR* the strongest of the three.
Diane - ..Seemed to me just to be an excuse to insert random rompings into the episode. Her storyline followed a more passionate approach. As I have commented on Tamino Badwolf, it seems that you would have had to have experienced something like this in order to be absorbed by this. I haven't, and so I wasn't. Weakest of the three.
Other person - Seemed to not be doing much, actually. Besides having trouble adjusting, she seemed to have been inserted into the plot just to create Gwen/Rhys argument.
I think that combining the three ideas together only made it a bit messy. It would have been better, in my opinion, to just concentrate for longer on John's storyline, which I found the most compelling. As I say, some people's opinions may differ. It could be the boring non-emotional logical robotic personality of me that watched this, but I wasn't remotely interested in Diane's or TheOtherPerson's storylines.
And finally, I will re-rate this episode. I'll rate it at a 5.6/10. Decent, could be much much better, not my preferred choice of viewing on a Sunday evening. But at least the rating is higher.
I also agree wholeheartedly. (Comment this)
Perhaps later in my life, I will look back on this episode with great admiration. (Comment this)
Time
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running
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Tosh: So, where are they? Jack?
Capp Jack: Umm, he died... Owen?
Owen: Umm, she left... in a plane... for a wormhole... err... Gwen?
Gwen: Errrr - she's gone to London! My God she'll get mugged and left fer dead in an alleyway! (Comment this)