Completely and utterly unspoilery comments on Torchwood

[drakyndra]

In regards to that bit in the opening titles where they say the "arming the Human Race against the future", am I the only person who takes that sentence way, way too literally, and wonders why it is the human race needs to attack the future? I mean, what's the future ever done to us?

...And now I am visualising some future peoples going, "Say, look at the past, it's another country you know, LET'S GO DECLARE WAR ON IT!!!"

See, that's what I call a Time War. When your own future tries to kill you.

_{Thoughts on ep 5: Quite decent, actually. Probably the best yet. But again, still flawed, and it's the same thing still bugging me. Next week looks interestingly horrific, though}

Comments

[romanticizing.livejournal.com]

Haha, that bothers me, too! I don't think the future is their problem there. It might be unwieldy saying "arming the human race against aliens and fairies and other weird things," though.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the way it's worded amuses me so. It makes my brain do that "go crazy places" thing it does.

[romanticizing.livejournal.com]

I don't even think it's your fault, though! They just phrased it badly. Maybe they should've said "arming the human race for the future" or something?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I disapprove of misleading wording.

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

...and is it wrong that *I* just took it way too literally, but in a different sense?

I mean, they do have an arm. Well...hand.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

There are about a million hand related puns I could be making here, and you know what? I AM NOT MAKING ANY OF THEM!

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

I am shocked! SHOCKED!....well, not that shocked.

Feel free to bust a few out on me though :P

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I refuse to lower myself to that level. *is very sniffy*

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

But then I'll be stuck on this level by myself :P

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

*waves down at you*

[plsteward.livejournal.com]

Points to icon... This is what your cracked idea + my boredom gets you.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

True immortality is: Being quoted on someone else's icon.

[cryptile.livejournal.com]

Eh, the future had it coming. What with it . . . being . . . oncoming.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's right, it's all the future's fault.

[fannishnonsense]

Hee! Well, I don't know about your politicians, but I bet Bush would declare war on the past if he could figure out how.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

He so would. Which is an odd mental image.