From: seanc130@hotmail.com
"Marc" wrote
> Alan McHurshman wrote:
>> I am a Huge Torchwood fan
> I can't stand Tourchwood.
What does Tourchwood have to do with anything? He was talking about
Torchwood.
> For a start the main guy can't die,
How many TV shows do you know where the main character *did* die? (Not
counting cases where the actor actually died in real life.)
Did you really ever, for even the briefest of instants, think Mulder or
Scully was going to die in any of their various adventures?
Is there a real, significant difference between someone being *incapable* of
dying, and just being absolutely certain that someone *never will* die?
Seems to me like a big bunch of metaphysical hooey, since the two can't be
distinguished by any imaginable experiment.
If anything, making the main character immortal is more creative and
intriguing, because it circumvents all the age-old clichéd situations where
they come to the verge of death every damn week but always manage to get
saved at the last moment *somehow*. You could stop having to concentrate
your energy on suspending disbelief and forcing yourself to pretend that you
believe they're genuinely in danger when you know damn well they're going to
be back in the next episode, and concentrate it on other, more original
things.
I've never watched Torchwood, and have no idea what goes on on it. But
that's my general opinion of the theoretical idea of making it so 'the main
guy can't die'.
> and they're WAY too much inuendo. I just can't take it seriously.
Exactly the things that have always been so great about ATXF!
> Plus, as a Brit - I find an American accient helps to make things sound
> more sophisicated.
You're a Brit, and you think Americans sound *more* sophisticated???
Are you made out of anti-matter, or what?
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