Torchwood

Over at The Sharpener Dave Weeden doesn't like Torchwood.

...it pains and embarrasses to totally agree with Justin: Torchwood sucks. It sucks in lots of ways. Russell T Davies and co-writers may be willing you to suspend your disbelief, but they aren’t helping at all.

I didn't think it was quite so bad - indeed what I enjoyed was spotting the links to all the things they had ripped off to make it. This is more or less the opposite of Justin's view at Chicken Yoghurt however. My comment at the Sharpener included this:

In general however, I didn’t think it was quite so bad as you paint it. When I watch CSI I’m always mentally shouting that they are contaminating the crime scene walking in in ordinary clothes. But of course if they didn’t we wouldn’t see so much cleavage and tight trousers from the likes of Marge Helgenberger and Jorja Fox would we? Not that I’m complaining, but all drama works by requiring us to accept something as given at the start and then builds on it - like religion really…