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Took the quiz meme, posting because I happen to like this color, but I find it decidedly odd that I pick Water as the element to represent myself and the meme picks earth:

What color is your soul painted?

Purple

Your soul is painted the color purple, which embodies the characteristics of sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, mystery, enlightenment, arrogance, gaudiness, mourning, confusion, pride, delicacy, power, meditation, religion, and ambition. Purple falls under the element of Earth, and was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine.

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Flist made me laugh. Always a good thing.

Anyone know how I can watch Torchwood without having to download it? I keep hunting for it to pop up on BBCAmerica or Sci-Fi. But no dice. I have a sinking feeling it won't make it to this side of the pound. We don't get Blake's 7 either.

I think I'd like Torchwood more than Doctor Who - the premise sounds more intriguing to me.
And yes, I'm curious to see what JAmes Marsters is doing in it - but not overly so, since I have not liked the actor in anything he's done outside of Spike and the Dresden audio books.
Have had the same reaction to Head (who hasn't done anything interesting to me since Buffy in my opinion.)

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The premise of Torchwood is intriguing but the execution was... what's the opposite of intriguing crossed with a considerable amount of bad?

I will of course download the JM episode.

I thought BBC America was going to air the first season?

Thanks.

Haven't seen it pop up yet. But I keep looking.

According to everyone on flist - the first episode of Torchwood was excruciatingly bad, but the final four episodes were great, which is interesting. Can't quite decide if the show grew on them or they just began to get into fanfic on it? At any rate their initial impressions were enough to scare me off any attempts to download it.

Sigh. I really wish Marsters would get a good role in something. He's guest-starring in an episode of Saving Grace sometime this summer as well.

The first episode is quite good, but most of the rest of the first half of the season is really, really awful. And also quite misogynistic, I warn you.

Thanks for the warning and that's incredibly interesting.
Buffyannatator and herself_nyc had the opposite response in their reviews - both seemed to love the two-parter towards the end of the series, but were not fond of the beginning episode at all.

I'm finding the diverse reactions people have to media fascinating. Ex: The Sopranos Finale - didn't see it myself, but my pal Wales adored it. Loved it so much she's re-watched three times now. But buffyannatator hated it with a passion. Same deal with the reactions to The Long Way Home - which is a comic I feel ambivalent about mostly due to the art - not a George Jeanty fan. But several people on my flist adore it to pieces.
While there are others like myself, who feel equally ambivalent.

I honestly think it may well be impossible to know whether or not you are going to like or hate something based on someone else's review of it. Even if the person reviewing it tends to share your interests and is a close friend.

I've gotten to see a few Torchwood episodes (I think they are just finishing the first season in the UK, so I'm hoping Sci-fi channel might run it after the season is done over-seas) and although I don't like it as well as Doctor Who myself, I think it has the dark noir qualities you would enjoy.

It is much more like Angel, with the team working together against dark forces... In fact the creator has kind of shown that he is a huge Buffy/Angel fan, so I'm not at all surprised that he has put ~~Spike~~ JM in an episode. The fact that they are currently filming new Torchwood episodes must mean that it is getting a 2nd season (I hope so).

I haven't been able to download, and I'm not sure how long it will take to get the series to netflix.... I'm depending upon Sci-fi to bring it to me eventually, although I might get an all region DVD/DVR sooner than that.

I'm not a huge Doctor Who fan. Don't hate it. Just am sort of ambivalent towards it - due to the format more than anything else - it's an episodic sci-fi anthology adventure series - similar to Quantum Leap, Star Trek, Time Tunnel, Koljack The Night Stalker (the old one), Highway to Heaven, Touched by an Angel - etc - where two people wander about, help people, run into the occassional monster or villain, and everything is wrapped at the end. Very successful format. But I don't like it. It frustrates me for some reason or other. ;-)

The serial format owns me. Even the stupid serials. Complete and utter serial junkie. I like character arcs, the more complicated and intricate the better - and I love shows that you would get completely lost if you did not see every singel episode.

From what I've read Torchwood is more serialized than Doctor Who and far more controversial. But does have issues regarding presentation.
The views online are really mixed. Some people adore it. Some really hate it. Will state that I found the actor playing Captain Jack in the first season of Doc Who far more appealing than the one that is currently playing Who. So that's an added plus.

I have not yet attempted this meme, but what I want to know is, if your Purple embodies ALL those elements, what the heck is left for the rest of us? LOL!

;o)