I FINALLY got around to watching the Torchwood mini-series ‘children of earth’ which I’d recorded while I was in Malta (in HD). Having spent nearly a year looking forward to the series, it took me weeks and several missed oppurtunities to actually watch the bloody thing. Overall, I enjoyed it immensely. Here’s my rundown but beware of spoilers!
Ianto dies? What the hell! In series 1 when he was the tea-boy *slurps a cuppa* he was annoying as hell but now that he became more of a Torchwood person he became one of the best characters (granted there are only 3 and the other 2 are pretty good too). Apparentely, there are huge petitions to bring Ianto back, which I sort of hope they do but also hope they don’t just to avoid becoming repetitive (Suzie and Owen being resurrected et all). When Jack is all mangled and burnt up from the explosion and gradually begins to regenerate, I wished there had been more to that than charred body, slightly less charred body, fully healed and before it was clearly Jack I expected some big suprise, like it wasn’t really Jack. Speaking of which, now that the hub has been destroyed, presumebly Gray (Jack’s brother who tried to kill Jack last series and was drugged and kept frozen in the lab) was either killed or released from suspended animation and escaped, though the writers probably didn’t consider it. The last scene made sense though, of course Jack wouldn’t carry on running Torchwood after all that, it’s like how Martha couldn’t just go through all that crap with The Master and then just carry on travelling and I hope that the next series of Torchwood (assuming there will be one) involves Jack travelling the universe, as much as I think Gwen is a great character. I know that John Barrowman is appearing in the Doctor Who christmas special with David Tennant so maybe he doesn’t leave earth for long. I felt sure that Lois and Rupesh would become the next members of Torchwood but one dies and the other is only said to be released from prison, probably in the same way that Mickey and Martha were supposed to appear in series 3 but didn’t.
Speaking of the next Doctor Who episodes, it’s odd that they’re doing so much promotional stuff now when the next special isn’t due to air until November, but then I know Comic-Con’s going on in the States so perhaps they wanted to get out stuff before it’s mentioned at the convention. I really hope that they bring TWoM earlier but I suppose the animated episode that’s coming up and the third series of SJA (bit childish but I watch it just for the mythos) with The Doctor, I guess in terms of Doctor-screentime it just about equals out to a normal year, when I get bored enough I’ll work it out. I’ve been watching a tad more of the classic Who stuff, such as the part-animated serial ‘The Invasion’ with Patrick Troughton and Cybermen, it’s on two discs so I’m waiting for the second part to arrive but I enjoyed the first.
My 3D glasses should come some time this week so I’ll be able to test out online 3D content, I have a horrible feeling that it’s all going to go to pot and they’ll suck but it’s worth a look. I keep thinking to myself what can I do/achieve during the summer but I know that I’ll spend all summer thinking of something and then it’ll be time to leave for Uni when I won’t have time to do it. Just finished ‘Part One’ of 1984 so, by default, I shall continue onto ‘Part Two’. I’m anticipating things to come in the book and resisting to urge to vindicate myself by flicking through the next pages.
Continuing my rant about how boring the last 2 HP films will be, Jo reminded me yesterday that if they want to do things exactly, or close, as the book says, they’ve spent 6 films repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot from doing so. Fleur and Bill’s wedding, for example, wasn’t even mentioned in the last film but it becomes a big tipping point in the next book to indicate where the fun of the series ends and the serious shit begins, if you consider a magical battle with a disloyal wand as serious. Another example is the location and details on the remaining horcruxes, originally explained in Dumbledore’s collected memories during the sixth book but mostly excluded from the film, meaning that they’re going to have to do some serious explaining to get the three of them to, for example, break into Gringotts for Hufflepuff’s cup when they have no idea it’s a horcrux or where it is, that information, apparentely, died with Dumbledore.
I swear from now on I’ll do less sci-fi and more tech. That’s not to say I’ll do no sci-fi at all but just focus more on the actual point of this blog. Peace, love and assorted forms of data storage.