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Torchwood ep 1X12/13 Capt Jack Harkness/End of Days

  • 03-01-2007 11:18am
    #1
    popebenny16
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    The last two eps of Torchwood, all rolled into a big final big old rolling around climax of epic, big, bangin, out of this world proportions, and then some.

    As it has been on BBC3 twice now I'm happy to see that our beloved regs here havent given the game away for those who have only BBC2, thank you for that.

    Its on at 21.00 end at 22.30, you may start your engines afterwards, I am really looking forward to Starks review.


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  • #2
    ixoy
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    All I'll say for now is that if the show was as good as the last two episodes, Stark would probably never have ripped into it in the way that the rest of it deserved.

    A much-needed improvement and a good way to go out, leaving us hopeful for a second season.


  • #3
    Stark
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    Yeah I posted my review of the first half to my blog already. It's definitely nowhere near as scathing as my previous reviews.


  • #4
    Stark
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    Second half is posted :)

    http://stark.journals.ie/2007/01/04/torchwood-ep-1x13-end-of-days/


  • #5
    popebenny16
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    Good review, well told (as Gerry Ryan would say) and yes, yes, it was a lot better than the the rest of Torchwood. In fact, you sort of get the feeling that this was the first idea they had and were left wondering how to get to it.

    The time manipulator looks a hell of a lot like a TARDIS console, dosnt it? And when we hear the Doctors TARDIS (or is it, lets have a bit of a laugh here they all sound the same) we were spared the usual "who are you" from Jack as he hasnt met Dave Tennant yet and may be a bit horrified to find No2Haircut and Leather jacket Doctor is no more.

    I'm sure that the Aldi Satan wrecking Cardiff will be the source of more RTD jokes in the next series: "Remember that big disaster?" "I was asleep/watching Match of the Day/Eating a Curry/ Farting" or whatever.

    It is a pity that Mr Bilis blows it with some hammy "He has come for you ha ha ha" stuff, but its panto season.

    We did learn that Jack is an awful manager in this story though, and that poor Owen would do anything for Mr's 1940's, which means that we're supposed to feel sorry for him, thus ignoring/excusing his utter vileness as a character. That dosnt wash, he was horrible from day one, if he had turned that way after she vanished fair enough, dosnt work the other way around for me.

    Ianto keeps dropping nice hints that he was in Torchwood before Jack, must be a good story there next time out. Hoshi still by the numbers, I feel that Rhys is a really bad job, if he was more stereotyped he'd be Bearnard Manning, it's appaling. As for Gwen, ok, maybe the show is told from her perspective like R2D2 in Star Wars (yeah......) but enough, we've got her perspective and lots of it. Jack is supposed to be the hero of this show, lets focus on him a bit more next time out.

    So two good eps to wrap it up, but overall, Im sticking with what I said from the start, this is Buffy with swearing, too many times good situations and good ideas and tasty glimpses of whay may have been popped through only to be ruthlessly beaten down agaain into bland conformity with stereotypes, by-the -book plotting, too many nods and winks at the audience (somethings coming........... Jacks a mystereous man) without even trying to revel something just leading to fustration.

    But, on the plus side, I cannot remember any show that really hits the ground running in the first season (maybe the revamped Battlestar Galactica but then again they had the adavantage of simply twisting an existing show) so next time out has to be make or break for them: if its for grown ups Russ, give us some grown up Sci-Fi, ta.


  • #6
    Stark
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    popebenny16 wrote:
    we were spared the usual "who are you" from Jack as he hasnt met Dave Tennant yet and may be a bit horrified to find No2Haircut and Leather jacket Doctor is no more.

    I think it's very likely that Jack was already aware of the 10th Doctor's regeneration considering he had the 10th Doctor's severed hand in a jar. Then again, it is RTD, plot consistency probably won't stop him from giving up on a "haha, he's shocked to see the new Doctor" scene.
    popebenny16 wrote:
    Ianto keeps dropping nice hints that he was in Torchwood before Jack, must be a good story there next time out.

    Well he was in Torchwood London and I doubt they're in the habit of hiring teaboys. He also handled himself pretty well in Jack's abscence for someone who was supposedly inexperienced at that sort of thing. Perhaps Ianto's comments about being more indispensible than Owen thinks referred to something other than delusions of Jack being in love with him.


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