I just watched the 3rd season of Torchwood, which was a 5 episode mini-series called "Children of Earth". What a disappointment. After the first two seasons, I was expecting decent but campy science-fiction (a la Doctor Who), but this turned out to be part laughable horror, part absurd political satire (although I don't think the political satire was intended). And it looked like the director tried to include every second of video they shot, often showing the same boring scene over and over from slightly different angles. The plot was so full of holes it is a waste of time to list them all. Not what I expect from Russell Davies. Perhaps he was pressured to make the show more "mainstream"? It feels like what the SciFi (SyFy, ugh) channel does to a decent science fiction concept when they make a movie out of it.
Then I looked at the Torchwood forum on imdb.com, and found that quite a few people posting thought Children of Earth was the best science-fiction they have seen in quite a while! One post even compared it to Firefly. Ouch. I'm trying to think of any good sci-fi on television recently, or coming soon, but the only thing I can think of is Dollhouse. Umm, and possibly A Game of Thrones, if it ever makes it to HBO, but that is fantasy, not science fiction. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
