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It's finally here. Last Sunday, Torchwood finally made its way back to our screens. It's back, and it's here to stay....for the next 13 weeks, at any rate! Even for those lucky enough to go see the special screening on Wednesday 18th (grins to self), nothing beats seeing Jack striding through the rain acorss your own tv...
It's been a long years wait...but so, so worth it...Hold onto your seatbelts, folk, 'cos everything is about to change...
Everything Changes
They Keep Killing
Day One
Random Shoes
Ghost Machine
Out of Time
Cyberwoman
Combat
Small Worlds
Captain Jack Harkness
Countrycide
Apocalypse
Greeks Bearing Gifts
I'm going to try and post my thoughts after each episode on this page...or at least, they shall appear before the next episode shows!
Episode 1 - Everything Changes.
And boy does it. We get a slightly woody Gwen for the first quarter of an hour, before she suddenly springs into a whole other person...we get central charecters dropping dead left right and center..and we get Jack, strideing through the rain towards us!!!! An amazing first episode - well written, clever jokes, well thought out plot...I could go on and on and on and on and on and on....but I won't. Note the Doctor Who references, particually Jacks "I need a doctor" line...wonder who that could be then...Aside from the random standing of roofs, a brilliant episode!
Episode 2 - Day One.
A bit of a let down after episode 1, I must say. Me thinks maybe the writters wanted to shock off any parents who were thinking that maybe they could let their children watch it...genrally seemed a bit ruched, although we did get a whole load more of the charecters personalities, as well as discovering just how little the team know about our Jack. And much happyness over the Doctors hand! Jack holds it above even capturing a prisonor! Bless! Not the best second episode, but after the excitment of Ep. 1, I guess it was always going to be a bit of wind down. Ach well! Roll on Sunday!
Episode 3 - Ghost Machine.
Unfortunatly, we appear to be getting worse. An lovely exploration into deeper aspects of each charecters...charecter...but not the best episode. I guess that now we have no Tardis, actually discovering where the artifacts and aliens are from is pretty much impossible, but locking everything up in a safe is a bit of a let down...Although, being a soppy romantic at heart, I did love the flashbacks in Gwen and Rhys's flat. Heres to a better episode (complete with a very cyber woman!) next week!
Episode 4 - Cyberwoman.
At last! We've hit bottom, and we are moving on up! Not perfect, but we're definatly on the way up! A nice healthy dollop of angst, some brilliant special effects and a starring role for Bob the perodactil! And the darker side of Jack begins to most definatly make its appearence...loseing Rose and the Doctor has most certainly left its mark... If we get another couple of episodes like this one then Torchwood will most definatly have made its mark on Sci-Fci television!
Episode 5 - Small Worlds.
Another cracker!!! We're getting better! Slowly but surely, ever upwards!!! Brilliant how the faries were viewed as being evil beings, not the creatures of good and light that they are usually portrayed of. And we saw yet another side of our Jack...the side that once loved an ordinary girl, and the side that knew he had to basically kill one person to save thousands...just hope the others can forgive him for it...
Episode 6 - Countrycide.
Yes!!! We've made it!!! A cracker of an episode, despite the fact that all my friends are protesting it's a rip-off of the Texas Chainsaw Massacer! Midsummer Murders meets Doctor Who, and suceeds in scaring my sister so much she won't go outside! And the Gwen and Owen thing...well, I was Jack/Gwen through and through until a fanfic changed my mind last week, and this episode only clinched it! She is not a slut!!!
Episode 7 - Greeks Baring Gifts
We're on a roll! While nothing shall ever live up to last weeks cracker, this one wasn't all that bad!!! Loved the bit when Tosh was reading Gwen and Owen's minds, made me laugh. Alot. And the bit at the end was most interesting...so Jack's mind is unreadable, which could be due to physic training from the Time Agency, BUT when Tosh said he sounded dead inside, he went very quiet. Hmmm...
Episode 8 - They Keep Killing Suzie.
I was really, really looking forward to this episode. I've been intriguied by Suzie all along, so I was despreate to see more of her, her past, and her charecter. And I must say, I was a little disappointed. The Suzie in this episdoe was nothing like the Suzie I'd imagined...a much harder, crueler person. But then, I guess being dead does that to a woman. I did, however, being the thoughely morbid person that I am, love the way they were all so ready to kill her if it meant saving Gwen. And Owen hugged her, too. (Gwen, I mean.) Bless. Also, it was interesting to see how much Torchwood appears to have changed since Gwen came - from the way they were talking, it seems it has become a much more personnal job than it once was. Putting aside my own disappointment, another brilliant episode.
And, of course..."something moves in the dark, Jack. It's coming for you..."
Bad Wolf? The Doctor? A Dalek??? We shall see...
Episode 9 - Random Shoes.
Darn them!!! It was going so well...3 great episodes in a row, with the promise of another set of brilliant ones to finish it off, and they had to stick THIS in. Remember Love and Monsters, from 2006 Doctor Who? Well, this was the Torchwood version of that. A flimsy plot, an OC central charecter, and a rather disturbing episode in general. The only saving grace was the speech at the end, about life being banna milkshakes, and running through fields, although even that was an echo of Suzie in "They Keep Killing Suzie" saying "this is what it's about. Driving through the night." or something like that. Buck up Torchwood, you're slipping again.
Episode 10 - Out of Time
Thank the lord, we're on the up again. Put last week down to a blip. A good story, excellent charecters, even if Owen does go off with Diane and doesn't tell Gwen. Are they broken up, or are they not? It's rather hard to tell...Lovely little moments between Jack and John, seeing how similar, and how different they were. And Ianto teaching them how to shop..."of course, bannas are much more interesting!" Not my favourite, but a definately in the top ranks thus far!!! Keep it up! And no repeats of last week!
Episode 11 - Combat
So we had a bunch of people who all wanted to die, an emo Owen, and a Weevil in a cage. Not a good combination! But still, a great episode! Written by Noel Clarke, who was Mickey in Doctor Who, as well! We got to see a darker side of Owen, Gwen disappearing down some sort of spiral of dispair, and a weevil called Janet! Gwen and Owen break up, and Gwen fesses up to Rhys...and then gives him an annnesia pill, which kind of defeats the object. And we get, once more, that chilling reference to something in the darkness...all shall be revealed next week...*squels*
Episode 12 - Captain Jack Harkness
Eek!!! *Gasp* What an episode!!! Not what I expected AT ALL - I thought that they actually met Jack himself, but I guess that would be too many paradoxes...even so! So Jacks name isn't really Jack, and Tosh is finding out more and more about her bosses past...not to mention an even deeper delve into Owens dark side, and proof that (yes!) Jack and Ianto are some sort of couple. Plus, they played a couple of my all time favourite war-songs - Nightengale Sang in Barkley Square and White Cliffs of Dover. And Jack got to snog someone who wasn't dead/dying. And anyone spy the Bad Wolf grafitti?
Well. Dear lord. What can I say? It was so amazing, it's taken me nearly a month to bring myself to write about it! Fast paced, action packed plot, brilliant acting all round, fantastic storyline...and the ending...well...the ending was the best and worst ending I've seen since Doomsday, and the two now tie in first place. Who cares about the bad, the ugly, the awful....those episodes that had us close to turning of half way through, those ones that you'd have to pay me to watch again? Because End of Days...that is what Torchwood is all about. We've taken off, broken the cloud cover, passed the moon, and are on course for one heck of a second series.
Don't let your gaurd down folks, this is not the end!
