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I really tried to like Torchwood but last night's episode was one where I couldn't even have my children in the room. I never found the pedophile played by Pullman as sympathetic though they clearly were trying to do that. I can't deny it any longer the show is simply just a shameful piece of crap. Starz should be embarassed. Even the miracle day concept where no one can die is just not done very well and the dialog is contrived and overacted in many places. Plus the unecessary blatant gay sexual escapes are gratuitous.
1 posted on 08/25/2011 8:33:57 AM PDT by Maelstorm
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Why I’m sticking with Dr. Who ping.


2 posted on 08/25/2011 8:38:41 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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Fresh from beating the Catholic Church to a pulp with the stick of pedophilia, the Kultursmog has turned immediately to the project of legitimating pedophilia.

As G.K.C. said, “Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.”


3 posted on 08/25/2011 8:39:35 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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I really tried to like Torchwood.

Why?

4 posted on 08/25/2011 8:51:45 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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This season of torchwood is awful. It is too dark, too violent and we haven't seen anything/anyone from space. The original series, although it did have a sexual theme to it, had interesting story lines and other than a few two-part shows, each episode concluded with the triumph over alien invaders.

Bringing the show to America just has not carried on that good story line. However, this article misses the mark on the bill pullman character. My take is that the entire world is in such chaos that no one is thinking clearly and those who have poor judgement skills to begin with are attributing something miraculous to him. However, many people in the story also hate the man and one episode he was beaten by police officers before the public could get to him.

5 posted on 08/25/2011 8:52:41 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Maxine Waters tells Tea Party to "go to hell" - no thanks, I have no desire to move to your district)
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All their TV programs are vehicles to totally transform worldview to the pagan/occult/atheist/Marxist one.

This one is more blatant because the watchers are already corrupted to a large extent....it is the final nail to remove all sexual morality—complete freedom with government endorsement and protection so that their worldview will be the only one allowed.

It is for total Transformation to make it legal for all sex acts—so degeneracy will destroy the family and civil society—create slaves to passion and drugs—and a total destruction of Biblical morality==that which makes civil societies and freedom possible. They don’t want people to be free. Slaves to passion and drugs will make it easy for them to get control of everything.


8 posted on 08/25/2011 8:58:01 AM PDT by savagesusie
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4th season? Huh...

What I found most interesting about watching series like Torchwood is the blatant biases plugged in to most everything. It also helped punctuate the same kind of stuff being done here in similar ways. From guns to the role of authority figures in public life.

Maybe my tinfoil is a bit too tight, but the methodology is too similar for mere coincidence.

I like dark and violent entertainment on occasion. It's one thing if they are taking a character like Sanctuary's Jack the Ripper and giving him a path to redemption, it's another if they just ACCEPT the behavior of a baby-raper.

I think I'll pass on the 4th installment of Torchwood...

10 posted on 08/25/2011 9:06:13 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.)
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My wife and I watched about three episodes of “Torchwood” and dumped it forever.


11 posted on 08/25/2011 9:08:42 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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John Barrowman, the openly-gay actor who plays Harkness, said: “The interesting thing about [having a pedophile man character] that is that the audience is going to be torn turn off the show, because they’re going to not like him for what he’s done - but they’re gonna like him.

Fixed it

Dumbass homo.

12 posted on 08/25/2011 9:12:58 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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When Torchwood: Miracle day was first announced I had mixed feelings. I had enjoyed most of the original BBC Torchwood from a few years back, but its BRIEF gas scenes was right at the edge of comfort for me. Pervert advocacy and normalization is neither entertainment nor tolerable.

Enter this new abomination, where the stops are all out. You shall tolerate gratuitous, graphic, prolonged gay activity on-screen and like it!

Well, no.
And I will change channels when commercials for it pops up on any other network.

Here is additional reaction from another thread :

Discussing what I now call the Gay Softporn Handbook and Propaganda Manual BBC Show...

TW is just too adult for my tastes - too much weird sex stuff.
Maybe you can torrent the UK version.

19 July 2011
It appears that fans of the British version of Torchwood won’t be getting an eye full of Captain Jack Harkness and an unnamed barman despite the fact that it apparently already been broadcast in the US on STARZ. The BBC bosses thought it was too explicit. This, from the network that included a full on nudity scene involving a post-op transsexual in a movie exploring transsexuality.

The Sun reports that a source, which hopefully wasn’t hacked into by reporters working for News Corp, that the executives felt that the scenes were just too sexy to show primetime audiences. The source said “It wasn’t that it was a gay scene that worried people, but just the fact it was such an explicit sex scene, full stop. You can get away with scenes like that on American cable channels, but you can’t on primetime BBC1.

A BBC spokeswoman did confirm that this scene was cut along with another that they deemed to be too explicitly violent. She said “The UK and US versions of ‘Torchwood’ are slightly different. However, these differences do not change the story in any way and the strong storylines are first and foremost to the series.”
John Borrowman did promise show fans that the new series would be the sexiest yet, and it would include “man sex” and “full-on” nudity.

15 posted on 08/25/2011 9:16:46 AM PDT by Publius6961 (My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
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I wanted to like this but found early on I couldn’t stand it.

This series has the dubious honor of having one of the worst episodes of any television show i have ever seen It was called “Cyberwoman”. G*d it was baaad!


19 posted on 08/25/2011 9:31:19 AM PDT by Castigar
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I expected to like Torchwood. Tuned in and quickly realized that I was not their target audience.
26 posted on 08/25/2011 10:54:27 AM PDT by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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Too much homo stuff. I found myself channel surfing during that tripe.


30 posted on 08/25/2011 11:07:12 AM PDT by glorgau
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I'm curious what the BBC version of the show will look like -- and I'm wondering if it'll be available in the US at any point.

At the moment, they are making a show that will be missing some (though not much) key dialogue if they ever tried to air it on basic cable.

As for Oswald, I haven't seen anything yet that would make him sympathetic. He's being used, but he knows that he is and he's taking advantage of it, so, no, I don't feel for him in the slightest.

32 posted on 08/25/2011 11:57:49 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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