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[dreamer_easy]

Just rewatched the second season Torchwood episode Adam. Good heavens! That's a terrific piece of television SF! It's intelligent and sensitive, and beautifully shot (there's a lot of "unsteadycam", but it's used meaningfully, to indicate the characters' confusion or distress). Given a great script, the cast are all on form - Naoko Mori had me on the verge of tears twice. Everybody just goes for the emotion. The whole thing was a lovely surprise, like finding a forgotten chocolate in the freezer.

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[alawston.livejournal.com]

While I was at work, Mary was watching Torchwood season 2 for the first time just before she went to uni - Adam was the only one I caught, as luck would have it. It was so good it almost belongs in a different series, one where whole episodes don't turn out to consist of ladies in silver bikinis chasing John Barrowman round a coffee table.

I think I like Torchwood best when it's doing all-out intelligent TV (Adam, most of Children of Earth and Weevil Fight Club in particular) or acknowledging its camp heart (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and the one where Gwen gets married and Nerys Hughes gets blown up). A lot of the time it tries to steer a middle course and just ends up being a bit dull.

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

Jon got home and we watched From Out of the Rain together. It's a right muddle - a Real Ghostbusters episode with poetry in place of exposition - but it looks gorgeous.

I had forgotten how young Ianto was. What a big sweetie.