My brother watched this on Friday night, and, as he’s wont to do, spent nearly every subsequent minute demanding I watch it. But to give him his due, it’s probably just as well he did, or else I’d have forgotten, which would have been a darn shame, because it’s great.
A review in two parts
Part 1 : New world, old problems.
It’s funny what I’m willing to suspend disbelief for. Take this episode of everyone’s favourite* silly Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood. I’m perfectly willing to accept that by some unknown mechanism by which prevents everyone, all around the world from dying at exactly the same time. I’m a bit less willing to believe in the bullshit legal explanation for a paedophile convicted of rape and murder being released. It’s probably because it contradicts what I would view as sensible human behaviour, i.e, don’t release rapist/murderers just because legalistically there’s the possibility of justification and the rapist/murderer is threatening to ‘sue the Governor’.
Yeah, that was actually quite good. Not so much the title, though since the first episode back’s called ‘Let’s Kill Hitler” I think we can forgive that.
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So, I’ve just finished watching The Killing. It’s been sitting on my iPlayer Desktop for flipping ages (and looking at it now, I’ve got lots of Spiral to watch, and Episode 2 of Rubicon, though since that was the last episode on which downloading was enabled, (thanks a lot for that, by the way, The BBC) I might not bother. And the first new Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle) and I’ve at last wrapped it up, blasting through the final three episodes last night. I appreciate lots of people were watching them on BBC 4 as they were broadcast, but I don’t have BBC 4, and have had to rely on the internet. It’s been rather interesting, as my viewing sessions have been rather temporally diffuse. I’ve also got a few other things I want to discuss, which I’ll stick in here as well rather than posting separately.
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But who are the real monsters?
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Eee-by-by-gum.
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It’s the Ood I feel sorry for. Seems like they can’t do anything without being possessed by some evil demonic force/sentient asteroid.
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eh.
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Well, that’s a bit more like it!
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Yeah, it’s pretty good.
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