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Jun. 30th, 2007 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusWell, this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion but I thought this was the weakest of the three episodes. I guess, for me, 'Utopia' was such a tough act to follow that it was always going to be unlikely that RTD could cap it - though the following episodes demonstrated some flashes of brilliance, as a whole I found them disappointing.
The high point for me was John Simm's performance in both episodes; he was all sorts of awesome, managing to combine manic energy with an undercurrent of malevolence.
The use of Jack as a character was pretty poor, other than the throwaway line with which RTD is clearly challenging JK Rowling for the title of Queen of Foreshadowing. That one line, about the Face of Bo, distracted me so much from the rest of the episode. ;) Apart from that, why was he there? It felt as though they needed him back for 'Utopia' but then didn't really know what to do with him after that... And are we going to see a new, shinier Jack in Torchwood next season?
And hey, we managed to get through an entire RTD episode without mentioning Rose! Woohoo! \o/
The high point for me was John Simm's performance in both episodes; he was all sorts of awesome, managing to combine manic energy with an undercurrent of malevolence.
The use of Jack as a character was pretty poor, other than the throwaway line with which RTD is clearly challenging JK Rowling for the title of Queen of Foreshadowing. That one line, about the Face of Bo, distracted me so much from the rest of the episode. ;) Apart from that, why was he there? It felt as though they needed him back for 'Utopia' but then didn't really know what to do with him after that... And are we going to see a new, shinier Jack in Torchwood next season?
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Date: 2007-06-30 08:27 pm (UTC)I saw what they needed Jack for, they needed him to be a tool (literally, not euphemistically) in getting to the TARDIS and 'saving' it. And in being the 'tough guy' the one who wants the Master dead (in a more practical, less tearful way than Martha's family). But at the same time it did seem a bit 'nice gift, what is it?' in actual scripting.
I *loved* the Face of Boe thing. *Loved* it, it made the whole episode for me!