quote:Originally posted by sam: Not so long ago, I had to agonise about calling the police to some battering going on near me. I finally did. It was a surprisingly difficult decision to have to make. I was actually worried that I would upset the victim by interfering. God knows why we worry about the other people's privacy in cases like that.
I know. My downstairs neighbours years ago were a mother and her teenage daughter. The woman was a hefty one from Eastern Europe and she even tried to seduce my very scrawny ex, reducing him to a gibbering wreck. Anyway, she used to batter her daughter and it was heart-wrenching to hear. At one point she threw her down the stairs and when I went out to look, the poor girl was unconscious. My flatmates and I used to have long discussions about whether or not to phone the police - it's a bit odd when it's a mother & daughter rather than a bloke and his partner. Also, we were mildly terrified of the woman. We finally called, but they did nothing of note and the battering just continued. Horrible.
It sounds it; especially if after all that, you called and still nothing changed. I think I would have been beside myself with despair listening to it after that.
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quote:Originally posted by sam: It sounds it; especially if after all that, you called and still nothing changed. I think I would have been beside myself with despair listening to it after that.
I moved. It was a horrible flat and this didn't exactly enhance my enjoyment of living there.
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Dr FAUN DAVIES - Alien Biology & Disease Expert Apart from Capt JACK HARKNESS (download John Barrowman poster/wallpaper/skins HERE) FAUN DAVIES is the most experienced of the Torchwood team. His alien biopsies are a legend in Special Ops circles. Despite his rugged exterior, Dr FAUN clearly harbours a fancy for sexy newbie GWEN as well as CAPTAIN JACK himself. Could it be that FAUN swings - ahem - BOTH WAYS? Check out future episodes to discover the surprising truth! (Assuming you give a flying fuck.) Posts: 8657
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I take it you watched Torchwood then Ben...?
I managed to get through episode 1 before I found it too dull to continue with, Femke tells me episode 2 was better than 1 though, so I'll give it a go on the repeat..
I thought Gwen looked quite hott, if a little slack jawed and gappy..
Not keen on the whole Captian Jack can't die idea and I still wish they'd explain how he got back to the 21st cent..
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Not keen on the whole Captian Jack can't die idea
That's Captain Scarlet, isn't it? And his surname, Harkness. It's only a matter of time before they work in the 'Dart of Harkness' pun, isn't it? We should've copyrighted that...
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I managed to get through episode 1 before I found it too dull to continue with
It was very odd. It was basically Dr Who with swearing and rude bits. My kids actually sat down to watch the first episode before we realised what it was like. I'm not sure who it's aimed at really. Probably those people Patrick Stewart was talking about in Extras - "You're not married and you haven't got a girlfriend... and you don't watch [Torchwood]? How strange."
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I take it you watched Torchwood then Ben...?
I managed to get through episode 1 before I found it too dull to continue with, Femke tells me episode 2 was better than 1 though, so I'll give it a go on the repeat..
I thought Gwen looked quite hott, if a little slack jawed and gappy..
Not keen on the whole Captian Jack can't die idea and I still wish they'd explain how he got back to the 21st cent..
Episode 2 was hilarious. All that bonking. But oddly like Dr Who without the sex appeal.
Not worth missing Prime Suspect for, although that was a bit too drawn out the week before so maybe I didn't miss much.
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Imagine a talentless, full-of-himself film student in Cardiff walking out of Men in Black protesting that he could do "much better than that pile of fucking wank". Seven years later, Torchwood is the result.
It was hard to believe something so derivative and pointless could have secured public funding (actually, scratch that) but it really did set new standards in producing effects that looked both expensive and cheap at the same time. There were a couple of spirited performances, but the puerile, snickering tone of the script was pretty much unbearable. I guess the first one paralysed me with tedium so I ended up watching the second too - an episode whose distinguishing (and frankly remarkable) achievement was to make me wish I was watching Species instead.
Russell T Davies prospered with Doctor Who because he had to do very specific things within a pretty restrictive format - something that he clearly relished; Torchwood, on the other hand, is regularly injected with dumb swearing (ie. swearing that's not funny, 'realistic' or creative) and irritatingly cockless, titless and fannyless sex - one despairs at the mentality of the adults this bollocks was supposedly targeted at.
Pitilessly self-indulgent and utterly depressing. (0.3 of an alien Gary out of a possible five, )
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: thorn's hair is lovely and shiny. is that a perm? i bet that's a perm.
That's no perm: those ringlets are 100% Davis. If you were to see the 'growing it out' pics (never going to happen) you'd appreciate the nine months of utterly ridiculous half-curl I battled through in order to get that look. The left half of my hair curled up and out, the right half curled down and in. It looked like the underlining on a pseudo-posh party invitation.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: Imagine a talentless, full-of-himself film student in Cardiff walking out of Men in Black protesting that he could do "much better than that pile of fucking wank". Seven years later, Torchwood is the result.
It was hard to believe something so derivative and pointless could have secured public funding (actually, scratch that) but it really did set new standards in producing effects that looked both expensive and cheap at the same time. There were a couple of spirited performances, but the puerile, snickering tone of the script was pretty much unbearable. I guess the first one paralysed me with tedium so I ended up watching the second too - an episode whose distinguishing (and frankly remarkable) achievement was to make me wish I was watching Species instead.
Russell T Davies prospered with Doctor Who because he had to do very specific things within a pretty restrictive format - something that he clearly relished; Torchwood, on the other hand, is regularly injected with dumb swearing (ie. swearing that's not funny, 'realistic' or creative) and irritatingly cockless, titless and fannyless sex - one despairs at the mentality of the adults this bollocks was supposedly targeted at.
Pitilessly self-indulgent and utterly depressing. (0.3 of an alien Gary out of a possible five, )
I thought you were having a good day? You sound a tad riled.
It's nice to see something coming our of Wales, even if it is a load of talentless giggerish.
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maybe this is what pete needs to get him off the brown and get busy forging a new life as a clean living rock n roll dad. Or, this baby is going to born into living hell.
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Come off it Benway - you telling me you wouldn't want an icon for a mother and a poet for a dad? Although, it's also true that there's a reasonable chance the child will experience an upbringing reminiscent of the grimmer sections of Atomised.
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You reached over with your hand and knocked my Jap over
Dribbling, soiling itself, vomitting, unable to focus properly, unable to look after itself, unable to eat solid food and in constant need of care and attention...
All that and a baby to look after, life's going to be tough..
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What a bunch of twats. I particularly like the way that Bobossboy repeatedly acts all blasé about it in the hope that someone will be impressed.
Also: for something that's supposed to be so edgy, it was pretty fucking retrograde of the second episode to call time on the lesbian scene with the alien declaring that only a man could give it an orgasm (?!).
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quote:Originally posted by ben: it was pretty fucking retrograde of the second episode to call time on the lesbian scene with the alien declaring that only a man could give it an orgasm (?!).
Not to mention using a futuristic version of a 'date rape' drug for a so-called comic moment. Without a trace of irony evident.
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