Re: Torchwood - From Out of the Rain

In article <g1DIj.11432$p97.2037@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   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 Bad:
>   no breath but a heartbeat?
>   the all too expected showing that the Night Travelers are still around

It seems like there was so much potential with creepy carny folk as
villains, but they wound up 
being pretty pointless.

Here's another idea with lots of potential which ended up being pretty
pointless - the breaths in 
the flask. The trapped breaths are supposed to make up the "audience" for
the travelling show, 
but did we ever see this happen? Did the Night Travellers ever perform for
the breaths? Did they 
gain strength from them? Did they need them in order to survive?

The reason I think this idea has potential is that performers really do
gain energy from their 
audiences (just not, by and large, in an evil, non-reciprocal way). It
would have been nice if 
the Night Travellers had been just desperate for this energy, getting an
audience any way they 
could.

(I can see it now: the Ghostmaker, having adapted his vaudeville skills to
stand-up comedy, is 
basking in applause. "Oh, you've been such a wonderful audience. I wish I
could bottle you up and 
take you home. Oh wait - I can." Or, you know, something less cliche'd.
The point is that I think 
the villains would not have seemed so pointless had they acted with more
of a driving purpose.)