Re: Torchwood - From Out of the Rain

Anim8rFSK wrote:

> In article 
> <945212ee0804151136s78102d9ao882059539a7691ef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  "susan Fraazer" <susanfraazer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> That's one of the things that was so bad about this episode.   I have no

> idea why they wanted or needed their victims, or why the victims bodies 
> survived (did they age?  were they immortal??), or why the victims died 
> instantly when the breath was released (were they too far away?  
> wouldn't it have been worse if the victims had NOT died and both their 
> bodies and breaths were trapped forever?) or why ANYTHING happened.

    It was MAGIC.

  Yeesh, guys!


    I get it, I get it.  It didn't work for you.

    Some of it ya'll are nitpicking purely because it didn't work.  Some 
of it is valid points that just aren't relevant to me.