Torchwood

[gothwalk]

Y'know, if I pulled stuff like that while running a game, people would say I'd lost it.

Comments

[wolfette]

bit "deus ex machina"

[suibhne-geilt.livejournal.com]

Is this a compliment or an expression of displeasure with the scriptwriting???

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Great displeasure. If you don't mind spoilers, read more here.

[cavalorn.livejournal.com]

There's a certain line that no good GM should ever have to hear, and that the Torchwood scriptwriters need written on a brick and thrown at them:

'But that doesn't make sense.'

[meehaneo.livejournal.com]

And I still haven't figured out how Torchwood 1 was the whole of Canary Wharf and Torchwood 2 is a few guys in a basement in Cardiff, who are supposed to be secret and yet everyone has heard of "Torchwood" and they drive around in a Range Rover with "Torchwood" etched on the side???

Also, in a crossover gotcha, how did Dr Who manage to save the Earth (yet again) in the Christmas Special which included orbiting spaceships, matter transportation, and the Army blasting a spaceship out of the sky and Torchwood (Defender of the Human Race, "ya gotta be ready!") never noticed? Or were never called?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

If y'all had been paying proper attention, those were properly foreshadowed, hinted at, and documented. I'm always careful about that stuff - I've laid in plot threads up to a year in advance at times, which I think is about the equivalent of six BBC seasons in terms of material covered. Aside from which, if I'm going to go completely off the rails thematically, I try to have a reason. And if I can do it in my spare time, you'd think a whole professional production team could have a bit of a go at it.

I'll freely admit that I lay in more material than any one human could track, but I think that's a lesser sin than pulling biblical monsters out of nowhere.

I'm still waiting for someone to pay attention to the missing modrons, for instance...

[aidian.livejournal.com]

p.s. you didn't have to do that. :P but i'll find something to ship your way regardless. thank you.