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Torchwood .. bit of a gay overload don'tcha think?

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Twiglett · 03/01/2007 00:04

well really

all the blokes have slept with / snogged other blokes

one of the girls had a lesbian affair

why is it so homosexually overtoned

(not that I care .. but honestly its getting a bit boring)

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Twiglett · 03/01/2007 00:04

as boring as John Wayne always but always getting the girl even though she was young enough to be his grandchild towards the end

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ledodgy · 03/01/2007 00:11

I haven't seen it but may make a point of watching it now I thought it would be boring...

marthamoo · 03/01/2007 00:13

I am so with you on this - though all of it: hetero, bi, homo...just too much bloody shagging. It's like wotsisface...Russell Davies...just got so carried away with being past the watershed that he thought oh well, don't need any real substance to the plot, let's just have lots of sex. Bo...ring.

And last night...when Jack danced with Jack whose name he pinched...dh and I were like "nooooooo...no bloody way that would happen...no way in 1941 two blokes would dance together and snog each other in a dance hall in Cardiff...puhleeease!"

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Twiglett · 03/01/2007 14:01

thnks moo ... thought I might get slated for daring to comment on homosexuality on tv but then thought bollocks I'd say the same about hetero sex if its used to that extent

what do you think has got into the writers? its a cop-out from good stories no?

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foxinsocks · 03/01/2007 14:08

how funny moo - just said the same thing on the torchwood thread (about the serviceman)

I can't say that the sex thing bothers me at all.

AitchTwoOhOhSeven · 03/01/2007 14:10

actually, what i thought about the snog scene was that in 1941 the blonde capn jack's air crew would be so disgusted that they would lose all respect for him and therefore be unable to take command from him and therefore be more likely to crash. so, a very irresponsible thing to do, imho. lord knows it's not my opinion, i must stress. but a bunch of drafted soldiers in 1941 would've been sickened, surely?

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foxinsocks · 03/01/2007 14:14

nowt wrong with that oh marmite one

I do think the writer let his imagination run wild a bit but I can't see the harm in that - think the plots are generally quite flimsy in Torchwood, sex or no sex!

marthamoo · 03/01/2007 14:14

I think there's too much hetero sex in it too, though - we had to see Rhys's not very attractive bottom this week too (if I have to see bottoms I want them to be nice ones). Those sex scenes with airgirl from the past and Owen were barftastic.

I think the difference between Torchwood and Dr Who is that Torchwood takes itself too seriously and is trying too hard (and too self-consciously) to be adult and 'right on'...there's no joy or exuberance in it. Dr Who is fun...hell, the Sarah Jane Adventures was more fun than Torchwood.

marthamoo · 03/01/2007 14:17

Aitch - tbh, I thought the most likely upshot of the dancing/snog in a 1941 setting would have been that his men would have taken him outside and beaten the living daylights out of him...thus he would not have flown the mission and would not have died. So Jack could have been interfering with a timeline which would have impacted directly on his future - as he chose the name of an airman who had died in the war.

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Twiglett · 03/01/2007 14:19

yes agree .. he'd have messed up time by snogging captain

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foxinsocks · 03/01/2007 14:21

thought Sarah Jane adventures was great

oh yes, the Owen sex scenes were absolutely cringeworthy - I still can't quite figure out what his facial expressions were meant to mean

I enjoy Torchwood more than Doctor Who (but then again, I've never been a massive Dr Who fan I suppose).

Freckle · 03/01/2007 14:29

I have to say that, with each episode of Torchwood, you just know that RTD is going to get some gay sex in there - hetero too, but more likely to be gay. Is Cardiff the Welsh Brighton?

I would prefer some stronger storylines and less emphasis on the sex (of any variety). I don't mind some sex - after all it is post watershed (but being post watershed doesn't mean that you have to get masses of x-rated stuff in) - but proportionately there seems too much every week.

marthamoo · 03/01/2007 14:32

I went to University in Cardiff - and, yes, 16 years ago

mellowma · 03/01/2007 14:37

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MrsBadger · 03/01/2007 14:38

A mate and I have a theory that Torchwood is being secretly written by a 14yo slashfic writer to air her favourite fantasies...

AshNotTheHousewaresOne · 03/01/2007 16:55

its not gay enough i reckon........

motherinferior · 03/01/2007 16:58

I have to confess I rather enjoyed that snog

MrsBadger · 03/01/2007 17:00

oh, so did I MI.

It's the Brokeback Mountain phenomenon - we love to see men behaving like, well, girls.

UnquietDad · 03/01/2007 17:02

I have this nagging idea that Sarah-Jane is going to cross over into a "Torchwood" episode, and get drawn into all the hot slashy stuff and gratuitous swearing... Down boy...

foxinsocks · 03/01/2007 17:02

it was wonderfully passionate that kiss - I wound it back and watched it twice

foxinsocks · 03/01/2007 17:03

do you know that she is 58 unquietdad? certainly hope I get to look as good as she does at that age!

DumbledoresGirl · 03/01/2007 17:04

Oooh is there a bit of homo-erotica in this week's Torchwood? I missed it this week. When is it repeated? BTW, while I am talking to People Who Know, did anyone ever get to the bottom (no pun intended, but what the hell?) of whether Jack and Ianto were at it after everyone else had gone home?

UnquietDad · 03/01/2007 17:04

I know she is 58, yes! And she looks great!
I liked the reference to her being a "narrow-hipped" woman when she escaped out of the toilet window - deliberate echo of her being called a "narrow-hipped vixen" in her first ever Doctor Who story in 1973...

foxinsocks · 03/01/2007 17:08

it's on again tonight DG, on 9pm on BBC2. Definitely worth watching.

Were you around when she was in it then unquietdad? I only looked up her age because dh had recalled how gorgeous she was in those 70s episodes and we were trying to work out how old she was.