Captain Jack Harkness is rather like Rasputin (as in the historical accurate lyrics of Boney M), you shoot him, shoot him again, and again, and again….. but he keeps on gettin’ up….
So for a different method of assassination blow him up. And that’s how it was left last night…. Gwen sprinting away like her life depended on it, which it did along with Ianto who has just got used to being in a couple with Jack.
I think the 5 episodes will be shown over 5 nights (a bit of a swizz really as I suppose with the credit crunch the series length has been reduced).
Anyways, quick briefing about the plot.. Some, as always is happening in Cardiff, alien force has gripped the child population where they stand still, scream and chant, ‘we are coming’ in unison. Bit like Edvard Munch’s The Scream meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers (either film) meets Wyndham’s Midwich Cuckoos… All strange, spooky and something…
And that something as we move on swiftly to the Big Smoke where Malcolm Tucker … slip of the keyboard there… I meant, civil servant John Frobisher (Peter Capaldi sans imaginative sweary ‘In the Loop’ persona…. Darnit!!). There’s something happening regarding the 456… (nah, it aint a bus route) and some bloke in a psychiatric hospital who claimed he was abducted by aliens so is experiencing the loony bin trip (great storyline… Russell) and has a brilliant sense of smell… Lassie meets Hannibal Lecter but without the cannibalism, fava beans and chianti.
Anyways, Ianto got the car nicked, Jack was shot a few times but was resurrected and Gwen found out she was pregnant. Thre final minutes teetered on a knife edge between calmness and calamity. Final shot is kabooooom……….
So….outstanding issues that will surely be cleared up… Who wants to assassinate the Torchwood posse and why? How does Lois, the new ‘puter techie, fit in to the storyline…will she save our Torchwood heroes..?
Oh, and I suppose it is all to do with the rift in the space time continuum thingy thing….
July 8, 2009 at 2:20 am |
Word is the cast weren’t too happy about the cut in episodes. My bet is that the switch to BBC1 will be the death of the show.
July 8, 2009 at 7:54 pm |
Terrible old tosh: awful acting: disgraceful special effects: cheap laughs: hopeless homosexuality: pointless plotting.
A “Midwich Cuckoos ” rip off.
Deserves cancellation.
July 13, 2009 at 6:23 pm |
Ha, ha, ha!
Funny facetiousness!
Gotta giggle!
July 9, 2009 at 9:20 pm |
Incidental music is distracting.
Hopeless homosexuality? Pointless plotting?
Aimless alliteration!
July 9, 2009 at 10:40 pm |
Have held my counsel until almost the end, as Torchwood had started to jump the shark some time ago.
But it’s been really watchable. And the idea that government ministers might decide which children to sacrifice by using the school league tables to identify the less ’socially useful’ was, momentarily, rather believable and scary.
July 9, 2009 at 11:22 pm |
“But it’s been really watchable. And the idea that government ministers might decide which children to sacrifice by using the school league tables to identify the less ’socially useful’ was, momentarily, rather believable and scary”
Kevin, when the ministers were talking about the kids who they described pretty much as worthless (‘they’re on benefits and will end up in prison etc.’) was indeed believable and scary. Think on this the writers are spot-on, the bit, as well, when they talk about handing over the children of failed asylum seekers to the aliens was very scary.
I was kinda surprised, but pleased surprised, that they used a political and very pertinent storyline.
July 9, 2009 at 11:23 pm |
Charlie, yeah, I read the cast were pissed off with the fact it was only 5 episodes.
July 10, 2009 at 12:33 am |
Rasputin? I keep thinking of Mr Immortal, of Great Lakes Avengers fame. Always had a soft spot for Squirrel Girl…