Well.....

Well, crud. 

It's been quite a long time since I can finally start writing, and it's been so long since I've seen them that to be completely fair I....must....watch...them....again.........must...not...die....

Are you laughing? Do you find this funny?

I angrily informed my expert viewer that it's been so long since I've seen these, that I would have to watch them again if I were ever to finish what I started.  He burst into laughter.  I told him to shut his pie hole.  It's a miracle we're still married. 

I hasten to add that I'm not making him re-watch these.  Although secretly he probably wants to.  I don't want to sit through philosophical proclamations on things that I have heard before, but since I have the memory of a sieve, it will be like a whole new glorious experience.  Don't worry, I will keep adding his thoughts about this show, too, because that's probably the only reason why you'll still reading this and because he's funny and smart.

Did we finish watching them all? Yes, we did.  It didn't take us that long.  I started the endeavor in November of 2013 --- has it been that long ago? -- and I believe we finished in February 2014, with the classics.  A lot of serious drama unfolded not too long after, and it became impossible for me to write at all.  But I was able to keep watching the show, and I didn't stop at any point.  I got through all the classics, and all the way through the most recent Capaldi episode.  Then we went through Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures.

I don't really know if I want to write about individual episodes in the Torchwood series, since it kind of went from "This is the most disgusting show of all times" to "Will the pain ever go away" finally ending with, "Please make it stop."  Maybe some day I will, probably when pigs fly and hell freezes over.  So I'm just going to mention Torchwood now, and never talk about it again.  It's how I deal with all life's problems.

My expert viewer has noticed that every time I start screaming obscenities at the television, it probably means it's time to take a breather.  I noticed that I was doing that a lot during Torchwood.  Even the cat didn't want to watch all the explicit sexual scenes, weird Captain Jack [Jackman] behavior on top of tall buildings, alien mucking and a general attitude of "This is such a depressing show, that we're going to kill you, bring you back to life, kill you again, and then have you walk around as the living dead until eternity."  This show made me sad inside.  A little of me wanted to be a 4 year old child again, filled to the brim with girlish glee.  It robbed me of my innocence and my ability to laugh for a very long period.  [But not my ability to write dribble, apparently.] 

There were several things I didn't like about Torchwood:

A. It was way too serious.  I don't ordinarily watch dark, depressing shows.  I'm already a dark and depressing sort of person, which is why when I watch dark and depressing shows, I start painting the walls black, drinking coffee and other stuff that everyone finds annoying about me. People are really into that, hence the desire for crime shows, vampire dramas, etc.  Dr. Who has fairly successfully managed to maintain a light and humorous ambience, though I think the latter was mostly unintentional and due to very badly made aliens.

B.  Darkness often prevails.  This I found annoying.  I like a show when the hero prevails and the bad guy gets thrown into jail.  In Torchwood it seemed like really bad people were doing really bad things to destroy really bad people, so in the end, the not-as-bad people were sort-of doing bad things and getting away with it.  I had no respect for any of the characters.  They were not likable to me.  Wait was Captain Jack supposed to be a good guy? He was always being manipulative and devious.

C. I am outraged by the amount of sexuality it contained.  I don't need to explain further.

D.  I hate freaking character development!!!!  And that's what a lot of what this show was about.  We needed to like these characters and get to know everything about their lives.  What they did, where they went, who they did, and why they did it. 

Because of all these things, this was not a child friendly show, and that bothered me a bit.  I have kids now, so I think about the things that I watch.  If it's not kid friendly, and I would never let my kids see it in a million years, then why am I watching it?  I did prefer the two mini series, Children of Earth and Miracle Day better than the earlier seasons.  But in the end I had a bit of a problem with those, too.  There's really no chance in blazes that I'm going to re-watch the Torchwood series, anyway.

Erm....back to my original problem, I'm smack in the middle of the Tom Baker years, and you already know what I think of him.  I promised to myself that I would see this through, so now I must.  Here we go. Again.  It's going to be a long journey......