A Torchwood poll

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Inspired by:

Sarah Jane Adventures better than Torchwood? I'm a big fan of Torchwood's first season and I'm liking the second large. The ep of the Sarah Jane Adventures that I've seen was cool but not great so it's hard for me to judge relative merits. But, as The Evening Herald opined yesterday, I can't help but wondering if some of the "Torchwood is crap" sentiment springs from resistance to a show which is headlined by an openly gay man who is not camp and a career woman who is not girly.

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Comments

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I'm about as un-homophobic as a straightish boy can be - I have lived for years happily with a lesbian activist couple, for example - but I still found the 'do they have to shove it our faces' aspect annoying, because it was clumsy and obvious and distracting in a show that is supposed to be more about SF adventure, and sometimes (particularly the notorious Owen bit in the first episode) just done really badly. I am pretty sure my dislike of the shows treatment of sexuality is about quality of writing not homophobia (I've actually tended to like the more episodes that feature sex front and centre, like the second last, far more than the gratuitous added scenes).