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>,
"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:lrEIj.2672$Re7.762@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Anim8rFSK wrote:
> >
> >> In article <g1DIj.11432$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.
And coherent story telling.
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