Nor is CoE the only good thing to come out of Torchwood. Adrift is absolutely brilliant and superior to CoE in a lot of respects. CoE stumbles in its latter moments while Adrift is a perfect hour of television.

The question is, do "The God Complex" and "The Girl Who Waited" redeem the banal "Curse of the Black Spot" and "Night Terrors"? Those last two are ineffective stories that desperately required a rewrite or fifty to make us care about any of the characters in them. That's why RTD works better for me, because even in a…

Well it's meant to be a misdirect which is why they initially have the POV of the kid. Or you can go with Ward's memory being centred on the suffering he caused.

I had that moment when Skye made a reference to the Hulk, which wasn't a pop culture reference because the Hulk fucking exists in this universe.

Simmons was skeptical of magic being *magical.* That is, outside of the purview of science. She very cutely subscribes to the belief that sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic, except she wants to figure out how it works.

Have you seen his arms?

AVC's old design was definitely long in the tooth and the new design looks more modern although the temporary loss of features is disappointing. Since I follow the site via RSS most of that's bypassed me though. Pity that downvotes are flying at you for making a comment, rather than at people for being unconstructive.…

Yes, because what the AVC community needs to be is more elitist, exclusionary and hostile. Disagree with people's opinions all you want, don't tell them they don't have the AVC 'credentials' to be allowed to have one.

The site account system is tied to Disqus, all of the previous comment histories are tied to Disqus. So, good luck with that.

I think you mean DISQUSTING.

It's a character flaw used to enable a plot. That kind of emotional stubbornness translates into her actions in The Satan Pit and Parting of the Ways. Plus, the show always makes a point of pointing out how Rose terribly mistreats Jackie and Mickey.

The show gets to regeneration as a core concept when it's appropriate: in Parting of the Ways. There's no emotional or narrative reason to have a regeneration in "Rose" without a) confusing the shit out of everyone, b) disrupting the episode's focus on Rose and c) betraying the emotional impact of regeneration.

She's not a remotely rational character and I don't think the show intends her to be. The show clearly sides with the PM in the argument AND she's obstructing the episode from getting to the inevitable porcine porking. Most of the reaction we see is in the moment, during the hours where she's still processing and…

I enjoyed the episode and wish the consensus on the last two episodes was more positive but people aren't *wrong* for having different opinions. Just comment with your ideas and views, reply to people who also enjoy the show and logically rebut people you disagree with. There's not point in railing against the masses…

The commenters are very, very down on this season. The show came round for me around 3x04 (and I enjoyed parts before) but most of the comments have been highly negative especially toward the domestic elements of the show.

It made sense that Fitz was intelligent and useful in the field in the contexts we saw him in. He avoided combat situations the entire time and the only really questionable skill he had was great aim with the Overkill device. If the field assessment involved handling a gun, hand-to-hand combat or extreme fitness…

Two gay male friends and I saw it at least a little, so there's that. I had small hopes the show might go in that direction early on (I swear there's a light buttsmack in the Pilot!) but they're clearly going the obvious route with Fitz/Simmons. Which I'd be happy with if it didn't drag us down the less interesting…

Nope, I totally buy that the public humiliation, the disgust and the selfish thought of "why didn't he just let her die" would destroy a relationship. She's not *reasonable* but I certainly understand why she can't handle it.

But if Coulson's actually a robot that joke will be ironic.

It was an uptick from the first two episodes but it's still saddled with horrific direction which occasionally feels like a Power Rangers episode.