"It doesn't hurt me, you want to feel how it feels? You want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?"

[nausicaa83]

Finally got around to watch Torchwood. It's been sitting on my desk for months, and I never watched it before because I got the ending spoiled multiple times, and then I said "what the hell". So far I'm halfway through the first season, and while the first couple of episodes left a me a bit cold, now it's definitely growing on me. But god, it's depressing. Every other scene I'm staring very intently at the background hoping the Doctor will jump out of nowhere and fix everything and then take everyone for a trip on the Tardis. Seriously. Also, Gwen reminds me a lot of a grown up Rose Tyler, so she's kinda my favourite. And I ship her a lot with Owen, although that makes me feel really guilty, because boring boyfriend and cheating and morals and stuff.

I love it how much Russell T Davies-ish it feels. As in his seasons of Doctor Who, where it's not really about the aliens, it's about the feelings. Oooh, a piece of weird alien technology, I bet it's going to do something that makes us question our morals, and get all very sad, but then we have each other to hold onto in the dark. While Steven Moffat's approach is more of "oooh, a piece of alien technology which disrupts the space-time continuum and does a lot of awesome stuff that you can't really understand, but it's still awesome".

Don't get me wrong, I loved the sixth season of Doctor Who, but man I missed the "feelings". With Davies it all feels... grandeur, and sort of like in ancient greek theater. Great characters, great struggles, Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, and Love. Everything sounds capitalized.

Definitely time to stop the rambling and have dinner!

Comments

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

That's a wonderful story indeed! He sounds so sweet! *________*

Funny thing is, I lived in Venice my whole life, and there's tons of famous people who come here, and my dad would see at least one famous actor/actress every week, and I never saw anyone, because I suck at recognising faces. Plus I'm always with my head in the clouds. But mostly the faces thing.

I just watched the first episode of S2, and wow! I can't wait to see more! I was so hoping we'd get to see more Time Agents, and this Captain John character was so intriguing and scary and hot. I do hope he'll be back!

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

I was in Venice with my flatmate a few years back, for three days if that--and she managed to see some famous actress in a shop. So even tourist see them but not you.:)

The funny thing was that some months later I saw Kai Owen (spell?) who plays Gwen's boyfriend Rhys on another Underground platform in Central London. So in that huge city I saw by chance TWO people from Torchwood but had to go to events to see anyone else from any other TV show or film.:)

(Also, I loved Venice--I was just about to post this without saying it, cos you know, you must be fed up with hearing it. But still. I went off on my own in quieter, less touristy areas and it was lovely.)

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Actually I love hearing that people like Venice. Believe it or not, most of my life my friends would always tell me "sure, it's pretty, but you can't live here", while to me it's the only place where I feel completely at home. No cars, no fast lanes, everything's just at my pace. And the smell of salty water, and old buildings. *_____*