I like the five-night miniseries format very much, not least for the fact that the story appears to be playing out over the course of five days. It's a small detail, but I think episode=day adds to the internal tension, without having to compress journeys and handwave away traffic jams in the way 24 sometimes had to.
I have watched Torchwood all the way through, but have always viewed it as the sometimes embarrassing adolescent in the corner, who's leafing through a well thumbed book looking for all the smutty bits so it can read them out loud and snigger a lot. It's heartening to see it put plot in the foreground and at the heart of the episodes and simply let the characterisation and one-liners and smutty bits arise more naturally out of that. I think it actually may be growing up.
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Date: 2009-07-09 01:01 pm (UTC)I have watched Torchwood all the way through, but have always viewed it as the sometimes embarrassing adolescent in the corner, who's leafing through a well thumbed book looking for all the smutty bits so it can read them out loud and snigger a lot. It's heartening to see it put plot in the foreground and at the heart of the episodes and simply let the characterisation and one-liners and smutty bits arise more naturally out of that. I think it actually may be growing up.