xylia

[Jerle]

I just had to make a separate thread for this because omfg I just saw the second episode.
Does every country that's not the US treat sexuality so openly?

[Hagar]

YES.

Yes we do.

That is all.

[Stevenpjones]

You mean Gwen snogging the possessed girl? Not something I want my young daughter to see, but I can't say that was as bad as having a guy plant a wet one on Owen and saying, "Oh, I'm having you, mate!"...in front of his wife! (Not Owen's. His own wife.) Oh, the delted f-words were a joy (they had to bleep them because I watch it on BBCAmerica), but they've been good enough to keep in words like...well...I can't say, but they are not words you will hear on US TV.

I'm not sure what the episode numbers are, but I thought the first episode, overall, was quite good. Ditto #2. When you get to the episode with the machines that can see the past and the future...wow, they knocked it out of the park. The "fairies" were pretty good. Wasn't so impressed with the Cybernaut girlfriend episode. I'm not sure what to make of the "Countrycide" episode. It was okay, but the village going cannibal bit is getting old. (He says that after adapting Lovecraft's "Lurking Fear" into a radio script. Go figure.) I think Martha Jones will be joining the cast next season, and I find that interesting, considering her and Jack both are in love with The Doctor.

[Jerle]

o.O
Holy crap. Here's why I don't watch movies with people with accents for extended periods of time. I pick up on the accent.
Right now I'm thinkin in Gwen's accent.
I loved the season finale though.

[Aerin]

i wanted to watch that but I missed the first god-knows-how-many episodes. Where do you go to download these things?

[Jerle]

I use btjunkie.org
Great site if you know how to use torrents.

[Aerin]

what are torrents (and therefore how do you use them???)

[Jerle]

torrents are basically files that are used like file sharing services. You download a torrent and use a torrent program to find seeds to download off of. It's pretty basic actually.

[Kalic0]

Bit Torrent is a good program. They have both Mac and PC Version and it is still free as far as I know.

Sorry about the pun...I just couldn't help myself.

[Stevenpjones]

Last week BBCAmerica ran the episode where the three people from 1958 find themselves transported to our time.

Okay, there was still some sex and vulger language, but push that aside and I think you have one of the sweetest and most heartbreaking stories to appear on TV since Charles Durning guest starred as an MOH recepient on NCIS a few years back.

They interviewed the writer, and I like how she said, "You'd think this be a simple job for Torchwood, but it's anything but. Our lifestyles have changed so much in 50 years, and it's diffcult at times to justify those changes." I'm paraphrasing of course, but you get the drift. And she is so right.

For instance, the scene where Gwen is telling the 18-year-old girl that people are more sexually permissive now was priceless. Gwen is living with a man, and the girl asks Gwen, "So he's your special fellow? He's the one?" And Gwen answers yes to justify her point, but we know she is having an affair with Owen at work. Then the girl asks, "So if I went out on a date, it would be all right for me to have sex with the boy?" And Gwen immediately goes, "No. Well, no, you've got to...well...no. It's not." Gwen really cares about this girl, and when you care about someone, what sounds like fun and easy becomes much more difficult and hard.

And how about that scene where the middle-aged family man visits his son, who is now in his 90s, at a home. The son has Alzheimer's and can't remember his dad, but for one second he remembers making a winning score in a soccer game when he was a lad. That's sci-fi at it's finest. The scene is impossible, absurd, but it has so much reality and so much truth to it imbedded in its fantasy that it just hits home.

Oh, and the lady who played the avatrix was hot, too. :-)

[Jerle]

methinks Jack's in love with Gwen.
Real love, not just BANG BANG whoo! love.
This should get interesting...