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It's the Torchwood Holiday Special!
Sep. 11th, 2008 12:21 amDue to epic unfairness work expected me to actually be working this afternoon - I know, the cheek! Thankfully the Beeb twigged this might be a not uncommon problem and so provided a free download, huzzah!
Lost Souls was a rather 'lite' TW episode, but this was to be expected considering the whole day was about CERN. In the same way as The Archers often veers off into profound discussions of BSE/bird flu/hunt bans, the TW plot was frequently put on hold for the science to be explained again. And again. And again, while everyone went 'OOOOH' as if they had never heard of so much as electricity before.
Which is not to say I didn't enjoy it. It was a fun frothy, harmless 40 minutes. The main star was the accelerator, but there were enough throwaway comments from Team TW that those familiar with the past two series could take a guess as to what had been/was going on in these peoples' lives. In terms of audio acting, Eve Myles in particular came across very, very well. ( Madmoiselle, with these maps you are really spoiling us - AKA further SPOILER-Y thoughts on the ep... )
Anyway, all good fun. And once it was done I watched Lost in Austen. Again, silly but fun and I think it's got me hooked. I'm still hoping that Ms Price will wind up eloping with Jane, but that aside I'm generally content to just sit back, giggle, and generally trust the writers to come up with a good way to wrap this all up happily before Austen turns in her grave :)
Lost Souls was a rather 'lite' TW episode, but this was to be expected considering the whole day was about CERN. In the same way as The Archers often veers off into profound discussions of BSE/bird flu/hunt bans, the TW plot was frequently put on hold for the science to be explained again. And again. And again, while everyone went 'OOOOH' as if they had never heard of so much as electricity before.
Which is not to say I didn't enjoy it. It was a fun frothy, harmless 40 minutes. The main star was the accelerator, but there were enough throwaway comments from Team TW that those familiar with the past two series could take a guess as to what had been/was going on in these peoples' lives. In terms of audio acting, Eve Myles in particular came across very, very well. ( Madmoiselle, with these maps you are really spoiling us - AKA further SPOILER-Y thoughts on the ep... )
Anyway, all good fun. And once it was done I watched Lost in Austen. Again, silly but fun and I think it's got me hooked. I'm still hoping that Ms Price will wind up eloping with Jane, but that aside I'm generally content to just sit back, giggle, and generally trust the writers to come up with a good way to wrap this all up happily before Austen turns in her grave :)
