linky links for new Torchwood (starts Wednesday) and new Lost (-starts - who knows - whenever)

"...Torchwood fans should notice a change in tone this week. When Davies and his team looked back on series one, they decided it was too angst-ridden. ‘I think that was us in the office, being in such a rush to make it that we were projecting our worries onto the screen,’ Davies says, laughing."

Certainly - a lot less of the crying on Torchwood would be very welcome, because it was seriously getting on my tits.

I'm-a looking forward to seeing James Marsters giving his first on-screen male-on-male kiss. Whay-hey.

Here's a brief rundown of the Torchwood characters for you:

• Captain Jack – smug, omni-sexual.


• Gwen – pouty and constantly on the edge of tears. The other characters are constantly informing us how 'special' she is. Yet the only thing she seems genuinely good at is being pouty and being constantly on the edge of tears.


• Toshiko – geeky, dull, constantly on the edge of tears.


• Owen – creepy looking, arrogant, laddishly laddish, Complete wanker. And why has he got no lips? Whatever happened to his lips? There should be a story explaining where his lips disappeared to.


• Ianto – dreary, wears a suit.

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Damon Lindelof, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Lost - explains why he writes (it's to stop him becoming a pathological liar apparently) but totally fails to explain why he can never bring any of his stories to a satisfyingly conclusion that neatly ties up all the loose ends he also constantly generates.

Also -am I the only one that finds it ironic that Lost - which has been artificially dragged out and out for so long by being vastly over-written and over-padded should have had it's already pre-planned short new season even more shortened by a writers strike?

Michael Emerson interview which gives nothing away. Is Ben evil - or is he good? and who even cares anymore?

Argh - dammit Lost writers - will you just stop teasing us and dragging the story out - everyone lost interest years ago. Just tell us how it ends - now - before you get taken off the air and we'll never get to know.