Episode 3 is where it this new Torchwood starts to find its feet. This is the first episode written by someone else apart from Russell T Davies that I’ve heard of. Jane Espenson has written and produced for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and also written for Game of Thrones. This episode is where we start to learn a lot more about the events that prevent people from dying. The episode starts off with Wayne Knight being threatened by Rex and before we know it he’s out of it and the story quickly gets going. We learn that there is a company that has been stockpiling pills as if in preparation of this ‘miracle’. This is the first time that I have certainly noticed there to be something or someone behind what’s going on. I wondered how long it would be before we got something portrayed as a big evil corporation and whilst it might not be original it is introduced in a clever way. I quite liked the little “its bigger on the inside” line that Captain Jack gave when he saw the big warehouse which was probably intended to cover up the vast size of the warehouse compared to how big the building was on the outside. In a few trailers we have seen a parade of people walking with some odd masks and finally we they are introduced. The Soulless are named and they have an identity which is the very chilling scream-inspired white mask with black eyes and mouth. The mask is made even more creepy when its put on someone who adopts a position that makes them look unhuman.
The worse thing about this story is the totally unnecessary sex scene between Captain Jack and some bloke he met in a bar. It’s nice that he finds time to unwind whilst the worlds going to hell in a handcart. The UK version is far less explicit that the US but that’s still not enough to get past what we saw which was far too much. I thought with Ianto dead that Jack wouldn’t want anyone else, well I say thought, it was more hoped that thought. I don’t know what the American viewers thought of what they got but I would hope that they thought it was unnecessary and totally ruined the flow of the story.
Bill Pullman continues to impress but he gets a lot more to do and say in this episode. I thought the scene between Oswald and Jack towards the end was fantastic and Pullman was totally creepy and it was a bit uncomfortable at times and that is why he is the best thing in this series. Mekhi Pfiher is starting to grow on me, I think that he has become more likeable and as a result the whole foursome feels a bit like the Scooby gang and that’s not necersarily a bad thing. Eve Myles is also doing well as Gwen and she had to resort to mommy for half a minute to remind everyone that she has a child even though she keeps banging on about it at every possibility. Apart from that she is good and has fun when she slams the security guards head into the car and in response to having done that before she says “So many times”. I saw it in the trailer but its still fun.
This episode is the best episode so far and that’s due to the writing and directing. It’s the most action packed episode and think that the new characters are developing well and working well with the established characters. I do think that it has not got any of the Welshness and the main problem that I have with this new series is that it has lost its identity and its not a Welsh drama with Welsh actors but an American drama with Welsh actors in it and that’s a shame really. There is rumour that this could be the final series of Torchwood and it would be a shame if it were because despite the things that I like about this series it doesn’t hide the fact that the show spends too much time on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
The worse thing about this story is the totally unnecessary sex scene between Captain Jack and some bloke he met in a bar. It’s nice that he finds time to unwind whilst the worlds going to hell in a handcart. The UK version is far less explicit that the US but that’s still not enough to get past what we saw which was far too much. I thought with Ianto dead that Jack wouldn’t want anyone else, well I say thought, it was more hoped that thought. I don’t know what the American viewers thought of what they got but I would hope that they thought it was unnecessary and totally ruined the flow of the story.
Bill Pullman continues to impress but he gets a lot more to do and say in this episode. I thought the scene between Oswald and Jack towards the end was fantastic and Pullman was totally creepy and it was a bit uncomfortable at times and that is why he is the best thing in this series. Mekhi Pfiher is starting to grow on me, I think that he has become more likeable and as a result the whole foursome feels a bit like the Scooby gang and that’s not necersarily a bad thing. Eve Myles is also doing well as Gwen and she had to resort to mommy for half a minute to remind everyone that she has a child even though she keeps banging on about it at every possibility. Apart from that she is good and has fun when she slams the security guards head into the car and in response to having done that before she says “So many times”. I saw it in the trailer but its still fun.
This episode is the best episode so far and that’s due to the writing and directing. It’s the most action packed episode and think that the new characters are developing well and working well with the established characters. I do think that it has not got any of the Welshness and the main problem that I have with this new series is that it has lost its identity and its not a Welsh drama with Welsh actors but an American drama with Welsh actors in it and that’s a shame really. There is rumour that this could be the final series of Torchwood and it would be a shame if it were because despite the things that I like about this series it doesn’t hide the fact that the show spends too much time on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
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