Re: Torchwood - From Out of the Rain

Hey, where was the carousel that makes people younger or older depending on
which way it's 
spinning? I feel cheated! 

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>>   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.
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>>   What we have...
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>>   Jack as a carnie, Jack as an undercover investigator in the carnival,

>>and magic carnival music that we can hear all over the city.
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>>   Not much attempt to explain these away as aliens, but then Torchwood 
>>doesn't find that as im****tant to do.
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>>  The Bad:
>>   no breath but a heartbeat?
>>   the all too expected showing that the Night Travelers are still
around
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>It seems like there was so much potential with creepy carny folk as
villains, but they wound up 
>being pretty pointless.
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>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?
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>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.
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>(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.)
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