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      /Torchwood: The Middle Men/


      /The train-wreck keeps rolling (slowly)
      <http://ed-rex.com/reviews/television/torchwood/miracle_day/the_middle_men>/

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/The subtleties of Russell T Davies/

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*August 13, 2011, OTTAWA --- * As snarky and impatient and critical as 
it can be, creators also get an awful lot of slack from fandom. We've 
invested time and energy in characters and situations, almost as if they 
are real people, and so we can forgive a lousy episode or even a lousy 
series, if we can hope that, as with a beloved but losing sports 
franchise, "There's always next year."

So I found myself silently cheering /The Middle Men/, just a little. A 
scene here, another there. Watching Gwen burn pointless rubber on a 
motorcycle was kind of fun; Jack's Batman-like disappearance before the 
constabulary arrived at the restaurant was cute as well. Cliched and 
kinda goofy, they nevertheless had an element of /fun/ this series has 
been sorely lacking.

Even a brief scene of intense and cringe-inducing, brutal violence was 
strangely welcome.

But even for a fan, a character moment here, a well-blocked scene there, 
is pretty thin soup if the back-story makes even less sense than it did 
last week, and the plot is still driven by your favourite characters 
acting, well, /stupidly/.

/The Middle Men/ isn't quite as awful as the previous installment, but 
still ... the stupid, it burns! As usual, spoilers, snark and analysis 
behind the link. 
<http://ed-rex.com/reviews/television/torchwood/miracle_day/the_middle_men>

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