Torchwood Series 1
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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101: Everything Changes 2007 September 8
(First watched 2007-09-08) Â Nice general introduction to Torchwood, but as such a piloty episode I'm left uncertain what sort of style or tone this show will be using on a weekly basis. Â It could be like X-Files without everything ending as confusing as it begins, or Men in Black without aliens in music videos, or something else entirely.
Nice to see Jack again. Â He seems a bit more... personable, mellow, and just plain legitimate than I remembered, and I wouldn't have expected him to enjoy getting washed up in Cardiff. Â I suppose between then and now he's had time to get used to it, though, and has found a job as exciting as can be found on the planet.
So Suzie was the murderer... OK, I see her motivation. Â But why did she do it with such a specialized weapon that she was working on even around her colleagues? Â Was there some alien-artifact-related reason she was sharpening a fancy blade at work? Â Perhaps it was an alien thing itself, but that would still leave it an incredibly stupid thing for someone in her position to use as a murder weapon.
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102: Day One 2007 September 15
(First watched 2007-09-15) Â Uhhh, OK, that was something. Â I guess I've heard the show described as "Doctor Who for adults", and they wanted to make that clear as quickly as possible.
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103: Ghost Machine 2007 September 22
(First watched 2007-09-25) Â About time we saw something of Owen beyond the superficial, as he had to deal with the knowledge and shared emotions of a murdered woman.
Not only does Jack not die, but he doesn't sleep either? Â Next they'll tell us he doesn't go to the bathroom.
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104: Cyberwoman 2007 September 29
(First watched 2007-09-29) Â Not such an interesting episode, beyond making Ianto less of a mannequin. Â So... he was hiding her in there for a year or so without anyone being the wiser?
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105: Small Worlds 2007 October 6
(First watched 2007-10-06) Â OK, so Jack DOES sleep after all. Â And though I already know it from the "later" Doctor Who episodes, this episode establishes that he's been hanging around Earth for at least the last century.
The series seems to have established a light pattern. Â The even-numbered episodes are ridiculous, and not in the particularly good way. Â The odd ones are a bit serious and the better for it. Â Though... they also seem to end in failure of varying degrees, with somebody dead. Â Though hell, not one episode has lacked in deaths, so maybe I shouldn't hold it against the odd-numbered ones.
Even before it came to death between them... boy, the Chosen One and her stepfather were real dicks to each other.
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106: Countrycide 2007 October 13
(First watched 2007-10-13) Â Well, there goes the even-numbered curse. Â I saw the twist coming a mile away, but it was still an effective plot device: of all the unearthly things they've run across, it's the sickness of a few humans that's the least explicable and the closest to actually harming them.
Even early on, though, it was a nice change of pace for them to be out of Cardiff.
This Gwen/Owen thing, though... that can't end well.
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107: Greeks Bearing Gifts 2007 October 20
(First watched 2007-10-20)
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