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Originally Posted by Coolhand  Hee hee. I thought of a few more.
M: It’s leadership, Stupid! Part IV
After an entire season of displaying gross incompetence, selfishness and stupidity at every turn, as well as generally causing more problems than they solve, your team have just shot you and almost wiped out the planet. Against all the odds, you manage to correct their stupidity and save the human race. What does decent leader do next? We discuss the following options:
A: Shoot them in their traitorous, useless faces and hire some decent operatives?
B: Reprimand them all, make a note never to trust them again and spend a great deal of time putting them through UNIT training courses to make certain they can do their jobs next time?
C: Grin like some rent-a-Tom-Cruise impersonator and bog off with a Time Lord, leaving Torchwood and the future of the human race in the hands of the gerbil faced rapist who shot you? |
Oh, *laughs weakly* more, please!
seriously, there were so many out-of-the-blue item last series.
Ianto secretly keeping a cyberbabe in the basement? Not in character.
Tosh going off of the aforementioned Gerbil faced rapist and becoming a raving lesbian because of ex-eastenders alien? Not in character.
Owen falling in love with something not seen in a reflective surface? Not in character.
Gwen being a useless whiny mare who waits to be rescued and runs like a duck following knee surgery? Not...oh, hang on, they got that one right!
There were moments (but ONLY moments) of genius in series 1. That doesn't include the scripts, the cast, the level of acting, or 50% of the special effects. The set was awesome, and Rhys's bum acted the rest of the cast off the screen. His front wasn't that good though.
(Had to watch the daft episode with the future device the other night - the one where Owen sees a rape/murder in the 60's... so badly plotted! And why's Owen getting indignant? He should be watching for tips!)