"peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>
>> In article <g1DIj.11432$p97.2037@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've realized that if I do enough plot summary to tell you guys
about
>>> the show since ya'll clearly don't watch, I'll just be rewriting the
>>> whole thing.
>>>
>>> That's a lotta writing.
>>>
>>> ok, we've got scary Carnival folks. Not such a stretch, we all
think
>>> the carnival folks are a little scary to start with. Too different.
>>>
>>> What we have...
>>>
>>> Jack as a carnie, Jack as an undercover investigator in the
carnival,
>>> and magic carnival music that we can hear all over the city.
>>>
>>> Not much attempt to explain these away as aliens, but then Torchwood
>>> doesn't find that as im****tant to do.
>>>
>>> The Good:
>>> The team attempting a social life.
>>> Jack being in the movie
>>> The creepy factor
>>> Ianto's reaction to Jack in the movie
>>> Ianto's role overall
>>> Good use of Owen being dead. It worked for me because it was
>>> acknowledged, but not plot critical. I like that.
>>>
>>> The Bad:
>>> no breath but a heartbeat?
>>> the all too expected showing that the Night Travelers are still
around
>>>
>>>The Ugly
>>> The creepy carnival barker
>>>
>>>
>>> Okay Anim, the ***** session is yours!
>>
>>
>> Just awful, beginning to end. The whole thing was like a bad NIGHT
>> GALLERY from the 70s.
>>
>> The whole 'no breath' bit is from Buffy/Angel of course.
>
> Well, sort of.
>
>>
>> What the hell was with the kid's flat, that the front was normal and
>> inside was that endless corridor?
>
> ROFL - seriously? You call it a flaw that he lives in a warehouse?
> That's all you've got?
>
>>
>> So somebody shot home movies of these guys and they vanished, and then
>> nobody ran the film for 70 years? And this isn't the ORIGINAL film;
this
>> is a print. It's not like they destroyed the negative.
>
> Shot home movies of them, then when they died in real life, their
> spirits went into inhabiting the films. So then they can attach
> themselves to any copy of it, and use that and the rift energy to come
> through.
>
> Yeah, it's magic.
>
>
>>
>> And the whole time the TORCHWOOD crew kept coming up with 'facts' that
>> they could only know by watching the show.
>
>
> Okay, here we go.
>
> Name one 'fact' that they came up with and shouldn't have known.
>
>
>
>> Just crap, start to finish.
>>
The Rift = Cardiff's "hellmouth", upsetting the natural laws of time and
space.
-- Ken from Chicago
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