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locker_monsterWow, it's been over a year since a new Torchwood episode has aired. That's one heck of a wait. A wait well worth it? I haven't decided yet. That's the problem with this format. Children of Earth is essentially one long, five hour episode and "Day One" is just one part. It's hard to judge something on just one part. But it seems like a decent start so far.
Can't go wrong with creepy children and a big conspiracy. It's interesting how this story is taking the show out of Cardiff a little. Some of the action takes place in London so it feels like a bigger story in that sense. At the same time, we're getting a lot of personal character stuff that I wasn't expecting though it is welcomed. By shrinking the cast, the writers are forced to focus more on just who these people are. I don't know how relevant this personal stuff will become as the story unfolds, but it's out there to enjoy and pick apart. Actually, some of it is from left field but we're only getting five episodes as opposed to the normal thirteen so you have to do something and that means casting some big strokes.
So we get Gwen and Rhys house hunting and Gwen pregnant, the introduction of Ianto's sister, and the revelation of Jack's daughter and grandson. I personally like Gwen and Rhys' little side story the most because it feels the most natural and by natural I mean it's not totally unexpected like Ianto's and Jack's elements. Rhys seems pretty okay with Gwen and her place within Torchwood. He's not mad she had to bail on their house hunting and he suggests ideas for why all the kids in the world stop dead. I'm waiting for the moment where Gwen tells Rhys she's pregnant, but I can also foresee Gwen losing the baby by the end of this adventure. All that running around and those explosions can't be good. It's interesting that Rhys is the fourth character billed in the opening credits, which means he's been promoted to regular. Can Rhys join Torchwood when we get a fourth season? I'd like that.
I can't recall if they've ever mentioned Ianto's family before, so a sister doesn't seem too out of place. And he doesn't see her a lot so it fits that we haven't seen her before this. Ianto's job just keeps him away from family. It's kind of sad that his relationship with his niece and nephew is just handing them money whenever he sees them. But it's Jack's daughter that comes out of nowhere. Not a bad nowhere though. It's a nice look into how his immorality defines his relationships with people. Alice seems to be in her mid to late thirties, which means Jack would have met Alice's mother in the late 1960s, early 1970s. I don't think that fits the picture Jack pulls out at the end of "Something Borrowed" because that wedding picture looked a lot older than that. So it's possible Jack has had multiple wives and could possibly have multiple children and even grandchildren. It actually reminds me of New Amsterdam, that very short lived show on FOX. The main character was immortal too and he had like sixty three kids over the four hundred years he had been around.
I was gullible enough to believe that they were setting up Rupesh to be the new Torchwood medic. Boy, I'm dumb. But it all just feeds into the larger mystery of the 456 and all the children and why the British government is suddenly giving orders to have people killed. And it's all being led by Caecilius! Okay, fine, a guy named Frobisher.
And it's good-bye Hub. Hopefully the bomb, in Jack's stomach (?!), didn't trash the place too much. And since when can Jack survive a massive explosion? The creepy burned guy at the end of the next time trailer, screaming? Yeah, that's totally Jack. He's got, like, Wolverine level regenerative powers. I assume Jack didn't get blown into tiny pieces, unless he did and the pieces came back together. Creepy.
Some random things I enjoyed: Martha had her wedding, according to Jack. That means it happened after "Journey's End" but before "Day One". Seems like Children of Earth is set in 2009, going by some dialogue, so not that much time has passed since the end of Doctor Who season four. The picture of Tosh and Owen that Gwen has up on one of the workstations was nice and I really liked how she said morning to them. The photo's looks really beat up too, like it was handled a lot after Tosh and Owen's deaths. Did that UNIT guy who visited Frobisher say Colonel Mace was in Vancouver? I probably heard that wrong.
It's going to be one heck of a week. Five episodes one after the other. It's different, it is the year off for all the Doctor Who related shows (well, mostly), but I'd rather go back to a regular season next time.
Can't go wrong with creepy children and a big conspiracy. It's interesting how this story is taking the show out of Cardiff a little. Some of the action takes place in London so it feels like a bigger story in that sense. At the same time, we're getting a lot of personal character stuff that I wasn't expecting though it is welcomed. By shrinking the cast, the writers are forced to focus more on just who these people are. I don't know how relevant this personal stuff will become as the story unfolds, but it's out there to enjoy and pick apart. Actually, some of it is from left field but we're only getting five episodes as opposed to the normal thirteen so you have to do something and that means casting some big strokes.
So we get Gwen and Rhys house hunting and Gwen pregnant, the introduction of Ianto's sister, and the revelation of Jack's daughter and grandson. I personally like Gwen and Rhys' little side story the most because it feels the most natural and by natural I mean it's not totally unexpected like Ianto's and Jack's elements. Rhys seems pretty okay with Gwen and her place within Torchwood. He's not mad she had to bail on their house hunting and he suggests ideas for why all the kids in the world stop dead. I'm waiting for the moment where Gwen tells Rhys she's pregnant, but I can also foresee Gwen losing the baby by the end of this adventure. All that running around and those explosions can't be good. It's interesting that Rhys is the fourth character billed in the opening credits, which means he's been promoted to regular. Can Rhys join Torchwood when we get a fourth season? I'd like that.
I can't recall if they've ever mentioned Ianto's family before, so a sister doesn't seem too out of place. And he doesn't see her a lot so it fits that we haven't seen her before this. Ianto's job just keeps him away from family. It's kind of sad that his relationship with his niece and nephew is just handing them money whenever he sees them. But it's Jack's daughter that comes out of nowhere. Not a bad nowhere though. It's a nice look into how his immorality defines his relationships with people. Alice seems to be in her mid to late thirties, which means Jack would have met Alice's mother in the late 1960s, early 1970s. I don't think that fits the picture Jack pulls out at the end of "Something Borrowed" because that wedding picture looked a lot older than that. So it's possible Jack has had multiple wives and could possibly have multiple children and even grandchildren. It actually reminds me of New Amsterdam, that very short lived show on FOX. The main character was immortal too and he had like sixty three kids over the four hundred years he had been around.
I was gullible enough to believe that they were setting up Rupesh to be the new Torchwood medic. Boy, I'm dumb. But it all just feeds into the larger mystery of the 456 and all the children and why the British government is suddenly giving orders to have people killed. And it's all being led by Caecilius! Okay, fine, a guy named Frobisher.
And it's good-bye Hub. Hopefully the bomb, in Jack's stomach (?!), didn't trash the place too much. And since when can Jack survive a massive explosion? The creepy burned guy at the end of the next time trailer, screaming? Yeah, that's totally Jack. He's got, like, Wolverine level regenerative powers. I assume Jack didn't get blown into tiny pieces, unless he did and the pieces came back together. Creepy.
Some random things I enjoyed: Martha had her wedding, according to Jack. That means it happened after "Journey's End" but before "Day One". Seems like Children of Earth is set in 2009, going by some dialogue, so not that much time has passed since the end of Doctor Who season four. The picture of Tosh and Owen that Gwen has up on one of the workstations was nice and I really liked how she said morning to them. The photo's looks really beat up too, like it was handled a lot after Tosh and Owen's deaths. Did that UNIT guy who visited Frobisher say Colonel Mace was in Vancouver? I probably heard that wrong.
It's going to be one heck of a week. Five episodes one after the other. It's different, it is the year off for all the Doctor Who related shows (well, mostly), but I'd rather go back to a regular season next time.
