[Closed] Torchwood

freema agyeman.

HONK.... HONK!

shes makes me want to cry shes so yummy

YANTOOOOO!!!!!!!

I know some of the cast have complained that it's only a 5-hour series but the format seems to be working very well as it's one 5-hour long plot - more akin to the Dr Who of old I guess. It also looks like they've spent as much on it as a full series, so each episode has been a bit more spectacular, better filmed.

Oh - and agree about Gwen too. Not your "traditional" looker either.

Really enjoying it!

Mind-controlling gay space slugs will be released onto the set of Eastenders. One will attach itself to Phil Mitchell's spine, causing him to close down the garage and set up an interior design consultancy, which will really tit up their story arcs.

Fantastic!

Have to say its better than I thought, roll on tonight (or for the next six years on BBC3 and Dave et all)

I'm waiting to see how they've built their 456's. What tyres for child eating space aliens?

I'm waiting to see how they've built their 456's. What tyres for child eating space aliens?

Ha. I was waiting for that! Something that will cope with mud, going off the amount of filth/bile/poo that keeps hitting the windows.

Quite enjoying it. not taking t too seriously or anything.

Wasn't going to bother after 'Tosh' was killed off in previous series but the previews were encouraging.

Really enjoying it despite never watching it before (or indeed modern Dr Who)

I'm waiting to see how they've built their 456's. What tyres for child eating space aliens?

lol...what tyres for poisonous gases etc

Never seen modern Dr Who? What planet are you from?

If the aliens are 456s are all the indigenous Welsh Inbreds?

>'Tosh' was killed off in previous series

Ah, thought as much...still have about the last 4 episodes of the last series to watch :0

From what I read Barrowman had said somewhere, he wasn't happy with it being shorter. I must admit it would be easier to completely miss it since it's only on for one week..not to mention it's a pain having 5 hrs worth of episodes clogging up the pvr in one go..

Our PVR seems to be on and off all the time at the moment, what with TdF, Torchwood, Psychoville and Kingdom to record.

Ditto - good job it's got three tuners (V+ box)

So what you're saying is that Torchwood has just been an On-One guerilla advertising scam all along?

I'm in

Yep... and "The Blue Pig" is Yanto's pet name for Little Jack 😉

it's apparently quite popular on the other side of the pond, some references to it have been made in the new knight rider show.
I have seen the first season and the beginning of season 2 but not much.
I probably have way to much to catch up on now

i'm loving it - though big torchwood fan anyway. just wish it was on a bit more often! i'm leaving work early to go home and watch last nights episode which i missed due to being out on the bike.

I tried watching it last night. Perhaps I needed to watch it from the start but starting about 20 minutes in I had no idea what was going on at all. It was all a little bit dr who too, not that that's a bad thing but I expected torchwood to be dr who for grownups.

samuri - Member

I tried watching it last night. Perhaps I needed to watch it from the start but starting about 20 minutes in I had no idea what was going on at all.

Try picking up a novel, start half way through, and tell us how you get on.

I watched a bit last night and quite liked it. Better than the series format which seemed to consist of capn jack flouncing round cardif in a leded up range rover camping the aliens to death. Be much better if it was grittier / scarier / edgier imo as it is after the watershed and all that.

I'm still traumatised after Tuesdays episode with Jacks B'suit! Put me right off me tea!

If you need to catch up then may I refer you to [url= http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Torchwood ]The Doctor Who and Torchwood wiki[/url] which is more geeky than you could shake a mylar-wrapped first-edition X-men comic at.

I must say I am a die hard sci-fi fan but I think this show's budget is rock bottom low and IMHO is SH*&E - each to their own but Harkness is so camp and his actor (;) )over exposed on BBC TV now it just getting annoying. I hate to say this about a BBC sci-fi program but there - got it off my chest!

quite like it - BUT Captain Jack is annoying... Gwen is quite hot, BUT i've noticed she's got a bit of a gap tooth thing going on which cools her down abit....

& the thing that annoys me most is all the bloody love stuff... It's not eastenders, I couldn't care less if you're straight, gay, only like robots/aliens/mutated space monkeys from mars (delete as applicable) but please concentrate on the terror/sci fi aspect & try not to overact & make it more enjoyable for us people watching.

That said I still quite like it.

she's got a bit of a gap tooth thing going on which cools her down abit....

Not a reader of Chaucer, I assume?

Gat-tothed I was, and that bicam me weel;
I hadde the prente of seinte venus seel.
As help me god! I was a lusty oon,
And faire, and riche, and yong, and wel bigon;
And trewely, as myne housbondes tolde me,
I hadde the beste quoniam myghte be.

Whatever. She'd still get it.

[i]he thing that annoys me most is all the bloody love stuff... It's not eastenders, I couldn't care less if you're straight, gay, only like robots/aliens/mutated space monkeys from mars (delete as applicable) but please concentrate on the terror/sci fi aspect & try not to overact & make it more enjoyable for us people watching.[/i]

Agreed...don't understand why they felt the need to pad the script with the weak romance stuff.

Other than that, we're quite enjoying it and at least it guarantees an hour of watchable TV this week.

Wow! that was some episode.
Glad I sent the kids to bed they wouldn't sleep for weeks.
Still, best go check the league tables.

that's not Scotland! Its Mynydd Illtyd with Pen Milan in the background

that was some bloody light they had up on the moor when they filmed it

Got interesting with the discussion about what to do about their demands - I could suggest quite a few kids [u]and[/u] adults that would be ideal candidates to go - then it all went "Russell T Davies" at the end. The "Eastenders" influence is all a bit over the top. Could be more subtle.

Gwen. Ooooooooo yesssssssssssss. There's a girl who looks good in jeans.
Oh, and I'm enjoying the current format, too. I don't mind the relationship thing, it shows the characters as humans with lives outside the workplace, as well as in. Like [i]Chuck[/i], it stops the characters being just a sort of cypher.

Really enjoying it. No idea what you're bitchin about: "Eastenders" and romance? Eh?

Bloke is understandably a bit emotional and shaken by essentially causing the death of his long term friend, fellow "soldier" and lover.

That doesn't seem particularly over the top to me.

Perhaps he should have just muttered "Blast!" and stared into the middle distance. Would that have been "subtle" enough? 🙄

Is 456 some sort of parasitic monster trying to suck the life out of the kids slowly?

No, Gwen is not hot ... that spy secretary girl is.

😀

some sort of parasitic monster trying to suck the life out of the kids slowly?

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Are the episodes all on iplayer?

Keep hearing about it but not watched it, worth some time invested or not?

[i]Try picking up a novel, start half way through, and tell us how you get on. [/i]

It's TV, if people are going to deviate from mindless entertainment and actually apply some strength to the storyline they could at least let us know beforehand.

think its a shame they have killed off most of the main characters, but it was a good episode last night.

You could see it coming as soon as the evil woman in black said, when finding out Ianto had been with TW for a long time, something along the lines of - surprising as life expectancy is not long for those in Torchwood...

samuri - Member

> Try picking up a novel, start half way through, and tell us how you get on.

It's TV, if people are going to deviate from mindless entertainment and actually apply some strength to the storyline they could at least let us know beforehand.

I hate these series where they spend the first 10 minutes telling us what happened in the previous episodes - grrrr!

Oh - and this habit of either showing the highlights from the following episode (yes - TW is doing this, I switch it off) or, [i]even more annoyingly[/i] showing the highlights from the episode they're about to show. Battlestar Galactica did this and it was flamin' annoying.

I predict that Big Jack will go out in a blaze of guilt and rage fuelled glory taking the 456 (and everything else in the On-One product range) with him, leaving Gwen and the jolly tubby fella to bring up overweight gappy-toothed kids in peace and quiet.

Other predictions:

Peter Capaldi’s character – Dead
Fit bird with the guns – Redeemed, but dead
Prime Minister – Shamed and ousted
Contact lens girl – OK, but covered in dust from some sort of explosion

[i]taking the 456 (and everything else in the On-One product range) with him[/i]

😆

Yep, another good episode last night (like the 456 were ever going to be happy with 6700 'units' as a final offer 🙄 ) ...looking forward to the final episode tonight.

Nah, Dr Who (who by the way has been strangely missing whilst all this nonsence goes on) appears with Rose to save the day.

Cpt Jack gets his body blown off leaving only the face of BOW

Oh - and Series 4 is already being planned.....

Last night "The Midwife" pointed out that Dr Who is being a bit slack, shows up for the easy stuff - Daleks, Cybermen, Sycorax - but where is he when there are child stealing, smoke breathing sticky crab like thingies with a kid in the middle?

HtS - Contact lens girl is toast
Gun toting madwoman - if she lives, I wager she'll join Torchwood - they are all slightly damaged people in one way or another. Apart from Gwen, who is mysteriously attractive.

Peter Capaldi's character survived and is, right now, the First Secretary of State!!

I like the gun toting lady, very attractive

The original female head of Torchwood in Dr Who was nice too

Not so keen on the Welsh girl though

Nah, Dr Who (who by the way has been strangely missing whilst

pointed out that Dr Who is being a bit slack,

[pedant mode]
Dr Who is the name of the TV series, the character's name is the Doctor
[/pedant mode]

My entry in the office Torchwood dead pool (yes, its sad)

Jack – Missing presumed dead
Frobisher – dead
MI5 guy in brown coat - dead
Fit bird with guns - dead
Contact lens girl – alive (covered in dust)
Gwen - alive
Mr Gwen – alive (injured)
Prime minister – alive (disgraced)

yay for series four being planned 🙂

Given the low budget it isn't as bad as i thought it would be. I've been enjoying it but the director and writer need to go back to film school... or watch and take notes from The Wire.

Oh, and the scene with the ultimatum delivered by Jack and Ianto and then their complete cowardess - wtf was that about? Whoever wrote that scene should be shot:

"Yeah, we'll take you aliens on, all 6.7 billion of us."
"Nah, you won't i've just farted and released a virus."
"Oh, people are dead, we give up."

Presumably all the bile/vomit from the alien is a sign their species is poorly and needs the kids to help get better...maybe...

watch and take notes from The Wire.

I don't think they're going for gritty realism to be honest.

I did wonder though how, given that the alien was sealed in an airtight case, it was able to release a virus in the first place?

I don't think they're going for gritty realism to be honest.

Obviously. However, they could learn a lot about storylines and keeping a plot going.

Really enjoying it. No idea what you're bitchin about: "Eastenders" and romance? Eh?

Bloke is understandably a bit emotional and shaken by essentially causing the death of his long term friend, fellow "soldier" and lover.

That doesn't seem particularly over the top to me.

Perhaps he should have just muttered "Blast!" and stared into the middle distance. Would that have been "subtle" enough?

To be fair I wrote before they died, which for once John Barrowman didn't overact.

Last night "The Midwife" pointed out that Dr Who is being a bit slack, shows up for the easy stuff - Daleks, Cybermen, Sycorax - but where is he when there are child stealing, smoke breathing sticky crab like thingies with a kid in the middle?

Also I heard them say something about Martha Jones being on holiday? Surely if she's that important she would cut short her honeymoon??

The only other thing that got me slightly was the cameraman who went in took ages to go through the airlock but when the alien came over him he was out pretty sharpish & no one seemed to mind the big dollops of alien juice on his suit!

Okay, what do you think would have been more realistic and less "cowardly" here?

Instead of running or trying to save himself, Ianto died while firing on container full of highly poisonous gas in an effort to take the enemy down with him. Hardly cowardly IMO.

And as for keeping a plot going, I think Russell T Davies is actually pretty good at story arcs especially given the episodic nature of the shows and the need to an appeal to a prime time audience:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_arcs_in_Doctor_Who

Ok if we are being picky - in the opening episode where they had blown the Hub to bits and Ianto and Gwen were crawling about, they were both pinpointed with lazer sights. I would venture to suggest that highly trained firearms afficers from whatever organisation would have shot them both.

I'd go so far as to suggest that highly-trained snipers might not actually use laser* sights in the first place.

But maybe they deliberately didn't kill them.. eh..

[size=1]* And if we are being picky then: L.A.S.E.R. = Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. There is no frickin Z in it :)[/size]

We were discussing where this could go at work today. Luke puts money on the Doctor turning up at about 9:30pm. Lizzi was thinking that something lame like an earth virus killing the alien...where have we seen that before?

I am gunning for GCU Only Slightly Bent with Skeffen-Amtiskaw and Diziet Sma on board turning up with some [i]real[/i] sci-fi weapons 🙂

Unlikely but you never know.

Isn't this a kids' programme?

torchwood is the mature spin off, it's got men kissing men & some swear words.

Loads of this filmed just up the road from me, good to see the Gaer massive starting the uprising! 😀

i think christmas day at the harkness household might be a bit frosty....

One less present to buy! Poor Jack

It's going to make a follow up a bit tricky.

Will they kill off Gwen next time?

i'm the real father of Gwen's baby

We need a test then as I thought my Dad was!

Just watched the last episode on iPlayer. Bloody hell. Great stuff.

just watched it on my pvr after getting back from teh mega

wowzers that was frackin brilliant show to put on primetime on bbc1 5 nights in a row

singlespeedpunk i think jack said it was a fusion clipper
personally id say stuff the GCU and get an ROU in there gangster or psycopath class, i think it was Frank Exchange of Views who i was particularly fond of