Especially when I was already really uncomfortable with them basically using the Weevil as muscle on a chain (wtf?), and then that was followed up by Jack trying to pull moral superiority because they don't keep aliens trapped for expermentation.
You're right! I missed that parallel. That makes it even more hilarious.
I'd say "I can't believe they didn't even *try* to rescue the alien test subjects," but it's Torchwood, so of course they didn't try.
Although I'm sure the real reason is so the writers could have all of their sexual harassment comedy, without the woman actually being uptight enough to complain about it
Yeah, that's part of what bothers me. The writers don't even see the sexual harassment as enough of a problem to bother treating it seriously or having Alex take it seriously. Alex feels like one of those female characters written by men who Just Don't Get It.
He had to cover up in one episode when he almost got exposed by that criminal, and make out the criminal was just trying to discredit him as a nutter. Whereas Alex really does come across as, not just a bit quirky and odd as Sam did, but not all there from their perspective.
That's a good point. Sam had to be so much more careful, and the stakes were much higher for him. You don't get anything near the same sense of Alex being in a desperate, precarious position, because she's treating the whole thing like a joke (and the writers are treating the whole thing like a giant A-Team pastiche).
Or as a reviewer put it, Sam was the heart of LOM, and Gene was the balls. A2A needs more feeling behind it
Exactly. It's all the stupid strutting male bullshit and none of the emotional reality.
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Date: 2008-02-15 04:34 pm (UTC)You're right! I missed that parallel. That makes it even more hilarious.
I'd say "I can't believe they didn't even *try* to rescue the alien test subjects," but it's Torchwood, so of course they didn't try.
Although I'm sure the real reason is so the writers could have all of their sexual harassment comedy, without the woman actually being uptight enough to complain about it
Yeah, that's part of what bothers me. The writers don't even see the sexual harassment as enough of a problem to bother treating it seriously or having Alex take it seriously. Alex feels like one of those female characters written by men who Just Don't Get It.
He had to cover up in one episode when he almost got exposed by that criminal, and make out the criminal was just trying to discredit him as a nutter. Whereas Alex really does come across as, not just a bit quirky and odd as Sam did, but not all there from their perspective.
That's a good point. Sam had to be so much more careful, and the stakes were much higher for him. You don't get anything near the same sense of Alex being in a desperate, precarious position, because she's treating the whole thing like a joke (and the writers are treating the whole thing like a giant A-Team pastiche).
Or as a reviewer put it, Sam was the heart of LOM, and Gene was the balls. A2A needs more feeling behind it
Exactly. It's all the stupid strutting male bullshit and none of the emotional reality.