Thursday, September 26, 2013

Joss Whedon's Torchwood

Wow.  The same way that Game of Thrones was redolent of the Dune tee vee movies, I was having serious Torchwood sensory overload when I finally watched the first episode of the Shield show.  The show itself was wicked clunky, but they had a bunch of stupid shit to unpack, and Whedon and Disney are hoping that the unabashed squee of the fans will buoy the ratings long enough to advertise the next Thor and Captain America movies.  My two main quibbles: the Colson thing and the hella stupid flying car.  Rather than have Colson's return be a long, cheesy buildup to an army of clones, cyborgs, androids, or LMDs, Whedon should have done the more realistic thing and have Colson really, 100% simply saved with 2012 human medicine, with his death simply being Fury being a dick to the Avengers.  That would have been so much better.  And the flying car looked cheap on the HDTV, while the concept is just fucking tacky.  (Sponsors aside, Whedon should have had Colson's team driving the mini Range Rovers just like Torchwood.  That woulda' been a wink that told us he knew how derivative the whole exercise is.)

The line about sweaty cosplay girls at Stark Tower was pretty neat.  You know who you are.

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