Re: Speaking of Torchwood

Brian Henderson wrote:

> Ken from Chicago wrote:
> 
>> The "romances" in general have been forced, excessive, in that they've 
>> been rushed. It's typical of series where everything in an episode 
>> happens within a week's or sometimes a few days' time. On top of that 
>> is the rapid-fire nature of them: Gwen / Jack, Gwen / Owen, Owen / 
>> 20th century pilot, Jack / Ianto, Jack / Jack, Jack / John, Tosh / 
>> alien, Tosh / Owen, Tosh / WW2 soldier, Ianto / Cyberwoman. Jack was a 
>> known commodity going in, but can no one on the show keep it zipped?
> 
> 
> That's really getting to be my reaction too.  This season at least, all 
> of the *** has been completely gratuitous, it's like Russell T. Davies 
> is putting it in because he can, not because it has anything to do with 
> the plot. 

    Well, we are only at 3 episodes, and the only *** this season has 
been the ongoing relation****p between Jack and Ianto, and Tosh and the 
WWII soldier.

   Now, I'll certainly grant that any and all *** is gratuitous, because 
there is never a time when these stories cannot be told without ***. 
Transplant the stories back to the 1940's and they could tell them all 
with only a chaste kiss to substitute for all the ***.

  But there has to be something to indicate the intimacy.  With today's 
sensibilities, would we think that Tosh was really feeling that 
emotional bond if she had not slept with him?