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dave
Joined: 26 Jun 2005
Posts: 608
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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 Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: Torchwood 1.11: 'Combat' 27/8/07 12 midnight TEN |
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Welcome to Fight Club...
Not a great deal more to be said about this one, except that I couldn't believe how badly Gwen treats Rhys. And then to give him an amnesia pill after confessing that she'd been cheating on him...sort of makes you wonder why she told him at all. |
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SharazJek
Joined: 12 Aug 2005
Posts: 902
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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| Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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How wierd. I happened to watch Fight Club yesterday just before watching this ep.
Dave makes a good point on Gwen. What a cow!!! Is there anything likeable about the Torchwood team?? They all seem like a bunch of selfish hedonistic ammoral no-hopers.
Is this the kind of 21st century world the producers of Torchwood are trying to get the viewer to accept as normal?
So far their status of 'outside the government' and 'beyond the law' has given the members of Torchwood nothing but misery, death and hopelessness. Oh....and plenty of same sex snogging, a supposed benefit. |
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meglos
Joined: 29 Jun 2005
Posts: 670
Location: Perth
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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dave
Joined: 26 Jun 2005
Posts: 608
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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| SharazJek wrote: | Is there anything likeable about the Torchwood team?? They all seem like a bunch of selfish hedonistic ammoral no-hopers.
Is this the kind of 21st century world the producers of Torchwood are trying to get the viewer to accept as normal? |
I tend to disagree with you here, SJ (no surprises there!  ) I'm happy to see a team who make mistakes, both in their line of work and in their personal lives. If Gwen was amoral, she wouldn't feel bad about cheating on Rhys now, would she?
Owen strikes me both as being mostly amoral and mostly hedonistic. Jack, for all his supposed omni-sexuality hasn't been getting around much at all, and Ianto was shown to be dedicated to a single person of the opposite sex. So it's not exactly been brimful of immorality, IMO. |
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SharazJek
Joined: 12 Aug 2005
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Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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| Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| dave wrote: | | If Gwen was amoral, she wouldn't feel bad about cheating on Rhys now, would she? |
I'm thinking more about Owen and Jack when using the word amoral.
Is Gwen really feeling bad for Rhys though? Or is she just smarting over the consequences? Slipping him the amnesia drug in this episode was a low act that made the confession meaningless and the betrayal complete. |
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Todd
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Joined: 26 Jun 2005
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Yes very fight club. Seen it on Angel years before.
But it held my attention and was a good outing.
Who'd have thought a Dr Who Actor could write so well. Well done Noel Clarke.
3.5 out of 5. an average concept executed well. |
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Theta Sigma
Joined: 26 Jun 2005
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It was not as good as I expected it too be (I was actually much more impressed with the trailer of it) but it does get a passing grade from me.
I find this to be Burn Gorman's best performance in the series to date and what a surprise on what happened on his visit to the Weevils at the end.
I thought Gwen's use of the amnesia pill to Rhys was really reckless. Given what happened in They Keep Killing Suzie, Gwen should know better. |
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Panecea
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 121
Location: A point in time and space...
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Highly unoriginal but it is a good first effort from Noel Clark. Nothing to be embarrassed about. If he comes up with an original idea next time I think he'll do much better. |
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Theta Sigma
Joined: 26 Jun 2005
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| Theta Sigma wrote: | It was not as good as I expected it too be (I was actually much more impressed with the trailer of it) but it does get a passing grade from me.
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Watching Combat again this time on 10, the episode is better than from my previous viewing. |
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montypython
Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Posts: 861
Location: My own little world
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought this was quite good. It was nice to see a bit more of the Weevils, and I liked that Jack got a bit more action than he has been. |
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Theta Sigma
Joined: 26 Jun 2005
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In the commentary for Combat, Chris Chibnall asked whether the balaclava was enough to cover Alex Hassell's (Mark Lynch) face.
Didn't notice that it was him on first viewing but noticeable on repeated viewings.
It is too bad that the episode's writer Noel Clarke was not on the commentary or on the corresponding Torchwood Declassified episode. |
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