DVD Review....

[mdehners]

If you're like me, your local BBC fare is repeats of 'Being Served' and 'Keeping Up Appearances' on the local PBS channel on SUnday night. If you can, pick up the 1st season of 'Torchwood'. 'T' is a spinoff of the new Dr Who with the Swashbuckling Capt Jack, the Immortal, Unaging and Unkillable WWII pilot running a team in present day ENgland gathering Alien tech as so to give Humanity some extra help in a future his adventures with the TIme traveller has shown him. Fun with a sense of humour as well as plenty of drauma(and sometimes too much melodrauma from a team that spends a lot of time being "all about me" when they're supposed to be Saving Humanity...). The one thing that could "sink it" here in the states is Capt Jack's nature. He's "Omnisexual". Now, it's been fine in Sci-Fi for male leads to sleep with women and femaliens(or femalish;>) and for female leads, a little girl-girl action is perfectly acceptable but Capt Jack is a bit more "frisky". He's bedded EVERYTHING and thinks present day Sexuality is "cute" and "quaint". Colonial audiences generally prefer their "poofters" limp-wristed queens, not military Action heroes. I Know many would find the time-traveling episode where he Knows that the next day a WWII pilot will be killed by the Germans and tells him to live "as if each day is your last" uncomfortable because instead of his girlfriend he asks Capt Jack to dance, in front of his men. The kiss was good too:>...
The only real complaint is one I touched on before, this obsessive "emoting" that the rest of the team wallows in. I Know it's modern to think about "the Humanity" of just about everything but when your duty is to save the Human race and you basically would rather it become extinct instead of thinking Logically about a situation....
I still wonder about the Pteradactyl though:>
Truth,
Pat