Who's Back

I know it's been a while since the last post. Sorry...it's been crazy here...

Caesar finally ended its two year stay in my head...and perhaps at some point I'll share all the backstage bullshit that happened along the way...mostly as we got into tech week...but for now I'll just say it was an experience directing Shakespeare and I'm very proud of the finished product (especially since the backstage crap rarely came out on stage).

Add to that prepping the house for the new baby's arrival in June (which includes re-organizing and eBaying a lot of stuff) in addition to some other things I won't mention just yet and I just haven't had the time or energy to blog...

But now I'm back...

And today I'm gonna review Torchwood Season 2 (in its entirety) and Doctor Who Season 4 (just the premiere episode).

Torchwood is the more "adult" spin-off from Doctor Who featuring Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) leading a team of agents in an X-Files like manner. The first season was a decent start but the episodes were hit or miss. The second season (which just ended) is about the same. Some highlights included the introduction of Jack's fellow Time Agent, Captain John Hart (James Marsters of Buffy fame), the death and weird resurrection of Owen, the three episode arc that included Dr. Martha Jones (the Doctor's companion from Season 3 of Doctor Who), Rhys not only knowing what Gwen does but being allowe dto keep the secret and help out and the fleshing out of Captain Jack's backstory. Unfortunately, the show kind of frittered away that backstory in the two part season ender. And the deaths of two of the team, while emotional, seemed to be a bit of a stretch given the story they developed from. I do look forward to seeing where they take the show for a third season (assuming there is a third season...I do hope so), but I think they need to have a better ratio of high & low points. Right now its the acting and the characters that keep me around...the plots only so often...and now that we're down two characters, we better get two damn good replacements (maybe Martha comes back).

Doctor Who started its 4th season with an amusing episode that will hopefully not set the tone for the rest of the season. We get the return of the annoying Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) from the 2006 Christmas Special "The Runaway Bride". Here, she's less annoying...but not by much...and she's now the full time companion. I'm hoping that next week's episode, which seems darker, turns the tide with Donna as a character because I don't know how long I could take seeing her annoy us week after week. Beyond that and the cute-ness, the show's still fun and there was a nice "Holy Shit" moment that I won't spoil. It'll defintely be an interesting season.

That's all for today.

Hope to be back again soon.

Be seeing you.