See, I got a bit bored of that during Torchwood. After knocking around the place (literally) for a couple hundred years, you'd'a thought he'd've taken up a hobby or something.HGFB wrote:I liked the fact that even while dead Jack could tell that someone was kissing him.
Bog wrote:Just had a thought.
Reckon one of them Time Lord to Human converter wossnames could restore Jack's mortality?
I think *something* is going to do it by the end of the series. It's entirely possible that Rose spotted something coming she wasn't going to be able to deal with and dumped a chunk of Vortex energy into Jack so he could deal with it later. I think Torchwood S2 will definately have a mortal Jack
Yes. They started filming about a month ago. To be broadcast in Janoffyoutoddle wrote:on the subject of Torchwood, will there be another series?
Cockup. Torchwood finale was written well before the script for Utopia.Also, the last episode seemed to me to show the Tardis materialising in the underground Torchwood base, so the way Jack got back with the Doctor didn't seem to tie up to me. Did anyone else think this or have I missed something?
Agreed. He just was not proper Captain Jack without flirting with everyon^H^Hthing that he encountered.HGFB wrote:[...] Jack was very restained in S1. Not at all like his normal self (Hitting on anything that twitches)/ Biggest problem in Torchwood IMO.
Not sure about that. To me he seemed to be the better one to go to for a plan, but the Doctor has always specialised in winging it. Easily bored by plans. And not very good at them if his efforts to repair the TARDIS years ago are owt to go byHGFB wrote:The Master has always had much more technical ability than the Doctor.
.I'm the other way. I'll leave the agonising over science and extremely minor plot points to the hardcore Star Trek fans. This is Doctor Who, it has never sought to over-analyse those sort of things. I mean, it is a show about a guy who can travel in time and space, yet everywhere he goes he gets to speak English with people. The whole show has always required a certain element of suspension of disbelief just to work, especially regarding language. IIRC the very first story had cavemen speaking English.IronGiant wrote:HGFB wrote: You think too much. Stop thinking!
But I LIKE thinking and I love programmes that make me think ....... on that count Utopia was a winner.
Yes that is often the case in many TV shows and movies. And it really sucks if you don't have subtitling available. They should tone down the music during intensive dialogue sequences.IronGiant wrote:It's usually the lousy, overloud music that drowns out the dialogue.
I think that DW handles this rather better than Star Trek as the telepathic link to the TARDIS changes the perceptions of its passengers, and by implication the viewers, so that language is perceived as if were being used natively. A side-effect of this is that most written languages also appear to be in English to those for whom English is their first language.[*l]amanset wrote:So what makes me chuckle is that with all the nit-picking going on no-one seems to have wondered why everyone is still speaking English trillions of years in the future. The "TARDIS translates" thing doesn't really work well either seeing as everyone's mouth movements still synch up and you know that English will still be spoken by anyone they come across after the Master has nicked the TARDIS.
Indeed. DW has never been hard Science Fiction but SciFi fantasy, while decisions between consistency and story flow/fun have generally been made in favour of the latter.amanset wrote:But then again, none of this bothers me. Suspension of disbelief and all that. I just enjoy the show.
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