To The Last Man (2008)

This story was written by Helen Raynor who penned the Dalek two-parter last year and also Ghost Machine for S1 Torchwood. This story is another story with a historical theme to it. I thought that this story wasn’t the strongest one of the series but that’s because the previous two stories were absolute crackers. To The Last Man is essentially a Tosh story and the previous one featuring this character (Greeks Bearing Gifts) was a dull episode but I think that where they improved with this one is that it wasn’t all from Tosh point of view. The character of Tommy had formed a loving relationship with Tosh in what was in his eyes just four days, now at first this seems unbelievable but when you stop and this of it then its quite believable.

The writing was very good and all the characters were given good material which helped. The scene where Gwen walks into the ward and sees the soldier with an amputated leg and then he walks towards her was a really good moment, Owen wasn’t sarcastic in this episode which was weird but refreshing. Ianto was on form again in this episode and Jack was also very good in this story. The pacing of this episode was a nice steady one and when it all ended I didn’t feel short changed or confused.

Whilst its not as good as the previous two episodes it was still a good episode which proves that the producers have learnt their lessons from Series 1.