Torchwood - There's Lovely.

In case you don't know Torchwood is the beeb's Dr Who spin-off series which is set in the present in Wales with a "UNIT" like organisation running about sorting out aliens in our back yard. It's post-watershed so they can show a bit of gore, flash a bit of naked flesh and say F**k without the asterisks. However it is very firmly billed as Sci-Fi.

Now to be fair the first few episodes were pretty tasty. Good effects for the budget, a cast who can act and good storylines. Unfortunately the wheels came off this week¹ and we ended up with some lame plot that looked like the bastard offspring of "Deliverance" and "The Hills Have Eyes" - I half expected to hear a Welsh version of "Duelling Banjos" (Duelling Harps? Duelling Close Harmony Singing?). However comparing it to those films overrates last night's episode which was more like a Herchell Gordon Lewis film (in fact it did rather resemble "Two Thousand Maniacs" come to think of it.)

Note to the BBC - this is supposed to be Science Fiction - you know that stuff that has things which are not of this world or set in the future. What you gave us last night was a horror movie - and a crap one at that.

Oh and whilst I'm here; Russel love, I know you're gay and all that but please can you knock off all the "love interest" stuff as well - we're all SciFi geeks out here and we're not interested in that romance bollocks. If we were we'd watch Sex In The City or Friends or something else girly. I mean take a look at the "Fan Comments" on the fansite I linked to FFS! There's loads of chick-lit TV about so for the Invisible Pink Unicorn's (PBUH) sake please go back to giving us TV geeks can watch!



¹ I get my Torchwood of a Wednesday evening - I'm busy on Sundays.