Torchwood - Dr Who Spin off

arknor said:
yea, its been to good and fairly serious for them to ruin it with some drwho cheese fest ending.

maybe he can turn up on christmas day have a duel with some alien , lose an arm , regrow and arm and have a all lived happily ever after cheesey ending.


be glad when Russell t davies is gone tbh, without looking i can only guess moffat wrote these torchwood episodes if anyone did out of those 2
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I think Russell T Davies co wrote most them in this series but don't quote me on that.

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Writing credits:

"Day One" 3.1 Russell T Davies
"Day Two" 3.2 John Fay
"Day Three" 3.3 Russell T Davies and James Moran
"Day Four" 3.4 John Fay
"Day Five" 3.5 Russell T Davies
 
Really hope they don't go involving the Doctor in this at all as it will more than likely ruin the ending.

Also, no hammy acting, I though Jack's final words to Ianto were fairly hammy to be honest.

Unfortunately though they appear to be going for the all is lost approach only to have it all fixed in the last five minutes much like "The Parting of the Ways", "Doomsday", "Last of the Timelords" (This one is especially guilty of such crimes, unified belief in the doctor fixes the temporal paradox at the last second), "Journey's End" and "End of Days". In fact every season finale has manage to wrap up everything with a lightening turnaround that really spoils all that went before.
 
Can't stand Russell T Davies, hopefully Doctor Who might rise above the

fillerfillerfillerfillerOHCRAPwe'veonlygot2episodesleftquicksomeoneforceinastoryarc.

now that he's left. The only good Doctor Who episodes have been done by Moffat.
 
So Ianto's gone and snuffed it as well. All being set up for Rees and that young civil servant bird to join the team. The question is, which one'll make the coffee and which one'll end up being sexually harrassed by Harkness. My money's on poor Rees on both scores!

Cannot wait for this last episode but will have to as otherwise engaged tonight....buggeration!

I do like this 5 day format but just one a year isn't enough. They could do them six months apart have 1 now, 1 christmas, I think that'd work better. As long as they didn't ham it up like the Dr Who christmas specials.
 
I don't think this is any better or worse than Dr Who tbh. They both have their strong points.

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Last nights episode was really good, I loved the tension when discussing where to get the 10% from. What I did think was weak was that Jack's grand plan, after everything, was to just try and talk the 4,5,6 down. In retrospect it seemed quite obvious that the 4,5,6 would have some kind of biological weapons capability after they engineered that cure in the 40s.
 
Tbh, I think it was just a plot point for Jack to be able to go all vengeful whoop-ass in the next episode. At least that's what I'm hoping. Otherwise he just got his boyfriend bumped off for no reason.
 
Jabbs said:
I liked all the Torchwood's its far better for me, i wonder if this is going to be the end of torchwood though.
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I dont know how much truth there is in it, but from what I've heard the BBC is intending to axe Torchwood as a series prior to the new Dr Who coming onto the scene. So I guess if that is the case, then its entirely possible that this will be the end of the show.
 
My understanding was that this miniseason was make-or-break for the show. With ~6m viewers each night, making it the most popular show in it's slot, and almost 100% audience retention, I'd be surprised not to see another season.

EDIT: Just looked at last night's figures- up about 5% on the first episode with ~6.25m. Presumably the BBC are enjoying the power of iPlayer + word-of-mouth.
 
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There are episodes being aired on BBC Radio 4

They are toned down a bit as being before 9pm and I think its the same people. I heard it on R2 on Monday.
 
Seft said:
My understanding was that this miniseason was make-or-break for the show. With ~6m viewers each night, making it the most popular show in it's slot, and almost 100% audience retention, I'd be surprised not to see another season.

EDIT: Just looked at last night's figures- up about 5% on the first episode with ~6.25m. Presumably the BBC are enjoying the power of iPlayer + word-of-mouth.
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I would presume that the Torchwood audience is mainly comprised of Doctor Who fans who need their fix between seasons. You'd easily get the same viewing figures if this had been a Doctor Who mini-season special instead.
 
torchwood always had worse viewing figures than drwho, it was aimed at an older crowd , not a program for people to watch as a family like drwho.

there was an episode about some sex demon thing , one about canibals which would probably have stoped a lot of the drwho types from beeing fans, + it was on bbc2 at a crap time slot and not really advertised all that much
 
Hmmm, Cptn Jack's big showdown was a bit **** last night, I'd have expected the fight with the 456 to have started midway through the last episode and been left on a cliffhanger for tonights show, it seems a lot has to happen in an hour to me. Or are they going to simply find a magic bullet or the power of the human spirit in the last 5 min and all will be well again?

All I kept thinking towards the end was... Doesn't look like Humanity will be able to sort this themselves. Guess we'll see the Dr in the last episode.
 
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z0mbi3 said:
I don't think this is any better or worse than Dr Who tbh. They both have their strong points.
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Now, I think Doctor Who jumped the shark when the floppy haired overacting loon that is David Tennant took over from Christopher Eccleston.

I mean, it was no great shakes with Eccleston in, but it was watchable as he is a quality performer when he puts his mind to it, the Tennant Episodes suffer from his almost complete inability to act and the fact Russell T Davies ran out of half decent ideas.

Torchwood had/has the disadvantages of having no real acting talent on show, and utterly dreadful writing.
The Mrs has wanted to watch this mini series, so I've sat and watched it with her, the plot is so full of holes it literally makes no sense, even for Sci-fi, as for John Barrowman, possibly the worst leading man in history.
 
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