Torchwood - S2e05 - Adam
Was I looking forward to a double bill of Torchwood last night? Hell, yeah! But when I switch on the computer my brain just goes *poof* and it was midnight before I looked up and realised I'd missed both episodes. Still, ve haf vays and means... it was 1am when S2e05 came in, and 1.45 am when 06 automagically arrived. So no live blogging this time, sorry folks, I'll try to do better next time.
Holy mackerel, 'Adam' was good. This was the first episode of Torchwood that I don't feel like bitching about. How can it possibly be written by the same person who wrote the previous dirge of an episode, ' Meat'?
Barrowman! Way to tone down the musical theatre vibe. Yeah, he was still over the top, but it fit right in with the madness of the episode. Great to get a bit of Jack back story. Ianto... he's still got an ugly cry on him, but when he channeled the psycho killer he was truly frightening.
I must be starting to care for this bunch of oddballs, because I felt genuinely creeped out by the fact that the alien had messed with their memories and screwed up their personalities and relationships. I wanted the old team back, stat! Poor Rhys, I felt so sorry for him. Toshiko and Owen's personality switch was comical more than anything else, though Naoko Mori showed her vamp is far more convincing than her geek.
The guy who played the monster of the week, living off of the memories of our heroes, did a great job, particularly in the final scenes with Jack. He had a real genuine old school tragic villain vibe about him, sort of a throwback to older episodes of Doctor Who or Blake's 7 that I enjoyed as a kid.
So... creepy, funny, poignant... a big fat A from me. Yeah, I really prefer this series when it's mostly about human behaviour and doesn't have to rely on cheap CGI.
Holy mackerel, 'Adam' was good. This was the first episode of Torchwood that I don't feel like bitching about. How can it possibly be written by the same person who wrote the previous dirge of an episode, ' Meat'?
Barrowman! Way to tone down the musical theatre vibe. Yeah, he was still over the top, but it fit right in with the madness of the episode. Great to get a bit of Jack back story. Ianto... he's still got an ugly cry on him, but when he channeled the psycho killer he was truly frightening.
I must be starting to care for this bunch of oddballs, because I felt genuinely creeped out by the fact that the alien had messed with their memories and screwed up their personalities and relationships. I wanted the old team back, stat! Poor Rhys, I felt so sorry for him. Toshiko and Owen's personality switch was comical more than anything else, though Naoko Mori showed her vamp is far more convincing than her geek.
The guy who played the monster of the week, living off of the memories of our heroes, did a great job, particularly in the final scenes with Jack. He had a real genuine old school tragic villain vibe about him, sort of a throwback to older episodes of Doctor Who or Blake's 7 that I enjoyed as a kid.
So... creepy, funny, poignant... a big fat A from me. Yeah, I really prefer this series when it's mostly about human behaviour and doesn't have to rely on cheap CGI.
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