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Okay then!
Dear Torchwood,
Are you or are you not a show about aliens? Because what with the demons, zombies, and now ghosts, I'M GETTING A LITTLE CONFUSED.
If I want the supernatural I'll watch Supernatural,
Cathryn
Though, to be fair, this episode sucked so hard that maybe it WAS about aliens. Lord knows the MotW didn't make any sense. They are images that were trapped on film! And they were always evil! And they appeared out of nowhere - no, wait, sorry, out of the rain! And the one chick is a mermaid!
And okay, if they were apparitions that appeared during rainstorms to collect souls or whatever in the guise of travelling performers, and thenvideo killed the radio star cinema killed the travelling show, what happened? If they were apparitions, why wouldn't they keep appearing anyway? If they were something a little less ethereal, did they just fail to adapt? I can work with the idea of images on old film being like ghosts (I think I first saw it in an Animaniacs or possibly Tiny Toons parody of Field of Dreams actually), but not if the subjects of the images were already ghosts. Pick a story, Torchwood!
Either way, though, they could be killed by filming them and exposing the film. Fine, okay. Except then they tried to make it science-y and I just don't know, this episode sucked out loud. I hardly expect Torchwood to make sense, because it, like, doesn't, but it is capable of sufficient storytelling logic to keep me from going, "Wait, what?" every two minutes.
I don't even feel like dissecting character stuff because the episode was too dumb. I won't even get on Jack for his continued douchery in re: Owen. I will, however, laugh at the show for going from Jack hating the idea of sending Owen into a physically dangerous situation, to Jack grudgingly allowing Owen to volunteer for a physically dangerous situation, to Jack sending him into one without a second thought within the space of three episodes. I thought it would take at least four. (One could argue that Jack sent Owen up because of Owen's whole not having a last breath of life to steal thing. To which I say that Owen still could have gotten hurt, and he was limping down the stairs as it was, and OH MY GOD THIS EPISODE SUCKED AND MADE NO SENSE. This is why I wasn't going to get into character choices. Because they all sucked and made no sense.)
This is only the third episode that I've found unwatchable on the first viewing, which, for a show of such dubious quality, is pretty damn good. The other two were "Cyberwoman," which actually proved to be pretty damn funny when I made myself sit through it again, and "Adam," though I seem to be in the minority there. Appropriately enough, I do believe that the nurse or whatever in this episode was played by the pizza girl from "Cyberwoman."
Brief aside - why the fuck does all the good canon backstory come from shitty episodes with this show? "Cyberwoman" remains Ianto's only major (onscreen) character development. "Small Worlds," which was okay on the first viewing but bored me to death on the second, had Estelle, one of the few substantial parts of Jack's history that this show has gone into. And now we have "From Out of the Rain," which, incoherent as it was, managed to dole out another solid piece of information about Jack's past. Why is the show making me choose between learning about the characters' lives or watching enjoyable television?
In conclusion, a show like this is a crapshoot and sometimes you lose big.
Dear Torchwood,
Are you or are you not a show about aliens? Because what with the demons, zombies, and now ghosts, I'M GETTING A LITTLE CONFUSED.
If I want the supernatural I'll watch Supernatural,
Cathryn
Though, to be fair, this episode sucked so hard that maybe it WAS about aliens. Lord knows the MotW didn't make any sense. They are images that were trapped on film! And they were always evil! And they appeared out of nowhere - no, wait, sorry, out of the rain! And the one chick is a mermaid!
And okay, if they were apparitions that appeared during rainstorms to collect souls or whatever in the guise of travelling performers, and then
Either way, though, they could be killed by filming them and exposing the film. Fine, okay. Except then they tried to make it science-y and I just don't know, this episode sucked out loud. I hardly expect Torchwood to make sense, because it, like, doesn't, but it is capable of sufficient storytelling logic to keep me from going, "Wait, what?" every two minutes.
I don't even feel like dissecting character stuff because the episode was too dumb. I won't even get on Jack for his continued douchery in re: Owen. I will, however, laugh at the show for going from Jack hating the idea of sending Owen into a physically dangerous situation, to Jack grudgingly allowing Owen to volunteer for a physically dangerous situation, to Jack sending him into one without a second thought within the space of three episodes. I thought it would take at least four. (One could argue that Jack sent Owen up because of Owen's whole not having a last breath of life to steal thing. To which I say that Owen still could have gotten hurt, and he was limping down the stairs as it was, and OH MY GOD THIS EPISODE SUCKED AND MADE NO SENSE. This is why I wasn't going to get into character choices. Because they all sucked and made no sense.)
This is only the third episode that I've found unwatchable on the first viewing, which, for a show of such dubious quality, is pretty damn good. The other two were "Cyberwoman," which actually proved to be pretty damn funny when I made myself sit through it again, and "Adam," though I seem to be in the minority there. Appropriately enough, I do believe that the nurse or whatever in this episode was played by the pizza girl from "Cyberwoman."
Brief aside - why the fuck does all the good canon backstory come from shitty episodes with this show? "Cyberwoman" remains Ianto's only major (onscreen) character development. "Small Worlds," which was okay on the first viewing but bored me to death on the second, had Estelle, one of the few substantial parts of Jack's history that this show has gone into. And now we have "From Out of the Rain," which, incoherent as it was, managed to dole out another solid piece of information about Jack's past. Why is the show making me choose between learning about the characters' lives or watching enjoyable television?
In conclusion, a show like this is a crapshoot and sometimes you lose big.
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