Onscreen? I'm trying to think of a show where a child was slowly killed in front of an American audience. Not threatened, not found after death, not rescued from certain death, actually killed in front of the audience's eyes, and in a manner that took more than a nanosecond's shooting. (Or, in the case of a recent remake of Turn of the Screw, a highly-suggestive *crack* noise.)
The problems are that, on American TV, nothing about Torchwood is original, it gets no boost as a spin-off, and the premise is weak.
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Date: 2010-01-20 10:35 pm (UTC)Onscreen? I'm trying to think of a show where a child was slowly killed in front of an American audience. Not threatened, not found after death, not rescued from certain death, actually killed in front of the audience's eyes, and in a manner that took more than a nanosecond's shooting. (Or, in the case of a recent remake of Turn of the Screw, a highly-suggestive *crack* noise.)
The problems are that, on American TV, nothing about Torchwood is original, it gets no boost as a spin-off, and the premise is weak.
Yeah, there are those little drawbacks...