Torchwood 2x06 Reset [MASSIVE SPOILERS]

popebenny16

OK, do not read this if you don't want next week ruined.

This is the one where Martha come back, she is working for UNIT, by recommendation of The Doctor. She is called into TW to check out a suspicious death.

We get the obvious tension that she will bring to the team, and she is obviously a more "grown up" version of Martha than from Who.... dosnt stop her doing a typical companion thing in wandering around a secret base in a manner that screams "please capture me!!" though.........

So, natch she gets captured and experimented on, and only Owen can save the day, with a decent comedic plot line which is a hallmark of this season.

The romance between Owen and Tosh has its aborted start this week, cut short by the ending, and you have to wonder if the title Reset is not just about the reset experiment using the alien parasite but also about resetting Owens character. Whilst last weeks funny Owen as a Geek was a good laugh, here we're seeing Owen being nice again. Just as you wish they wouldn't do this the writing team decide to do just that.

The focus of attention of course is in Martha coming in for the first of her three eps. Her judging of Ianto and Gwen and Owen is well done I think, and funny, and the teams reaction to an actual normal person (as opposed to Capt Spike) who has obviously worked with Jack is just as you'd imagine, they're very interested in her and what she has done. Jack, of course, loves playing this up.

In the end, we are presented with a decent villain who, again dammit, has potential to return and I hope he does, who does what a decent villain does.

He kills Owen.

Ah, but sure inst there a bit of a weevil in Owen?

This show is getting better and better..........

markw999

I hate Owen, I am happy

Stark

He'll be back next week no doubt.

I thought this was a rather dull episode myself. Jack's constant praise of Martha and her responding grin was grating and the humans abusing aliens for their own gain subject was tackled only two weeks ago. This week's villain was also fairly wooden.

I saw this episode before the previous excellent episode and was disappointed. I'm sure I would have disliked it even more if I had "Adam" to compare it against.

thusspakeblixa

In the trailer thing you see Jack put on the glove thing from season 1 that can bring someone back to life... hmmm....

EmoMatt15

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

In the trailer thing you see Jack put on the glove thing from season 1 that can bring someone back to life... hmmm....

Yeah if he put it one it'd keep killing him!
"They Keep Killing Jack"
And I feel sorry for Tosh...

Stark

The glove thing doesn't kill the person using it.

EmoMatt15

In they keep killing suzie it sucked out Gwens lifeforce to bring Suzie back to life

thusspakeblixa

EmoMatt15 wrote: »

Yeah if he put it one it'd keep killing him!
"They Keep Killing Jack"
And I feel sorry for Tosh...

And yeah, unlikely to matter, seeing as Jack can't be killed

EmoMatt15

Exactly thts why I wrote that it would "Keep killing him"
So Owen could live always!

monkeyfudge

Yeah. For and episode that introduces Martha and kills off a major character it was very weak. There should have been a lot more potential to come up with a better story to incorporate those two major plot points.

Stark

I reckon Owen's resurrection will have something to do with the "reset".

pixelburp

So far series 2 has been very impressive - they clearly learnt a lot from the first series; they obviously took onboard criticism that it was juvenile & crude. They certainly didn't do a whole lot with Martha, but I suspect the next couple of eps will sort that.

And I actually like Owen - he's a total gitsmith, but he has a good heart. Somewhere.

markw999

I did like Martha and Gwen's comparison chat about Jack

And I totally agree; this series is MUCH better than the first (thank god!)

Orion

I saw the first few secs of next week's preview and it's the team around Owen on a slab and they're about to do something it seems. I wasn't quick enough to stop it before seeing that much but it looks like they'll resurrect him somehow.

EmoMatt15

It says on Wikipedia that Martha finds something not quite right in owen's body...

Orion

EmoMatt: If you're talking about upcoming episodes you should use spoiler tags.

EmoMatt15

Sorry new here and didnt know how...

popebenny16

Macros42 wrote: »

EmoMatt: If you're talking about upcoming episodes you should use spoiler tags.

Not needed in a thread headed MASSIVE SPOILERS.

EmoMatt, before you type stuff which is a spoiler type at the start and end of the text you want to hide the end

Orion

I'd actually say it is pope. The massive spoilers are for 2x06. I purposely never watch the trailers for shows cos I don't want any advance knowledge. Talking about 2x07 is advance knowledge that I don't want. That's also why I used the spoiler tag cos I saw some of the trailer inadvertently.

It was an honest error from EmoMatt - I was only trying to be helpful. Besides it's on tonight anyway

popebenny16

Macros42 wrote: »

I'd actually say it is pope. The massive spoilers are for 2x06. I purposely never watch the trailers for shows cos I don't want any advance knowledge. Talking about 2x07 is advance knowledge that I don't want. That's also why I used the spoiler tag cos I saw some of the trailer inadvertently.

It was an honest error from EmoMatt - I was only trying to be helpful. Besides it's on tonight anyway

ah right, fair enough, EmoMatt deleted his post in such a fashion which meant i couldn't see it even with the power of mod, so I assumed he was talking about the threaded ep. Then again, it raises the profound question - is the little trailer at the end of an ep covered as being part of the ep we're talking about or not?

We could write a paper on that.

I missed 2X07 because i was watching Season 2 of Lost all night, and never looked at my watch..... bugger....

Orion

He didn't delete it - it's in white on a white background

Missed it myself. Have it ... ummm recorded to watch tonight.

shinzon

ok so on bbc2 last night was the iftas, no torchwood there, but i did see it was on bbc3 at 10pm, switched over and it wasnt the episode reset but was what was supposed to be next wednesdays episode, the one after owen is supposedly killed now

1) bbc3 meant to show reset and cocked up the episode order

2) i went into a time warp and came out a week next wednesday

3) bbc3 are showing torchwood way ahead of bbc1

4) or there was 2 episodes of torchwood last wednesday

could anyone clear this up as im confused

shin

Stark

The new episodes are now premiering on BBC3 at 10pm instead of BBC2 at 9PM. The episode is then reshown on BBC2 the next week.

"Reset" was shown at 9PM on BBC2 in all regions except for Northern Ireland (the region we get on NTL etc. down here) because of those IFTA awards. Next week we should be gettng two episodes on Wednesday night.

pixelburp

No new thread for Wednesday's episode?