One issue with Torchwood is inconsistency. Some of the scripts are rubbish, some are really pretty good, but even if you just got all the good ones, they still don't seem as if they belong in the same show. Poor show-running/script editing is its biggest flaw, leading to a confused show and poor consistency of characterisation.
As far as the transgressive stuff goes - I often find that Torchwood is like an adolescents idea of what adult TV is like (they snog and shag each other all the time! Everyone is bi and sleazy! People lose it and go crazy! They dress all tough and shoot people! They drive fast!). Its transgressive in a predictable and silly way, which ends up being transgressive in entirely the wrong way (Owen date rapist!). So I think its transgressive nature is a big point against it, but not from the homophobic crowd, rather from the people to whom its aggressive sexuality comes across as rather adolescent. I have no issue that Jack is aggressively bi, but find the 'who's turn is it to have a bi experience this week' stuff far too clumsy.
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Date: 2008-01-27 04:38 am (UTC)As far as the transgressive stuff goes - I often find that Torchwood is like an adolescents idea of what adult TV is like (they snog and shag each other all the time! Everyone is bi and sleazy! People lose it and go crazy! They dress all tough and shoot people! They drive fast!). Its transgressive in a predictable and silly way, which ends up being transgressive in entirely the wrong way (Owen date rapist!). So I think its transgressive nature is a big point against it, but not from the homophobic crowd, rather from the people to whom its aggressive sexuality comes across as rather adolescent. I have no issue that Jack is aggressively bi, but find the 'who's turn is it to have a bi experience this week' stuff far too clumsy.