The second series of Torchwood finished with a bang (literally) on Friday night. It was pretty standard Torchwood fair – i.e. nothing was explained particularly well – but they did at least do the exit of Tosh and Owen pretty well. I thought Naoko Mori’s performance was fantastic, and Burn Gorman did pretty well too.
It concludes what was, in my eyes, a much better series of Torchwood. I think they’d listened to the criticism from the past series, and tried to adjust the tone accordingly. Although there is still quite a way to go, I have enjoyed watching this series – which is more than I can say for series one, which I found quite a trial at times!
Like someone on the Behind the Sofa blog suggested, if they’d just cut down a bit on the number of episodes it could have been really good.
Anyway, Saturday night saw the return of Doctor Who – and it got off to a great start! I watched a repeat of the Christmas Special with Catherine Tate last Christmas, and I thought then that she would do a good job. If “Partners in Crime” is anything to go by, that’s definitely true! The scene between her and her grandpa was really quite touching, and she has a real chemistry with David Tennant.
And Rose has returned! That was a very mysterious five seconds at the end of the episode – I wonder where it will lead.
The story itself was a fairly typical “first episode of the new season” one, but it was a good laugh and I enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to the next twelve episodes – I’m sure it will be “fantastic”!
On this day..
- Hire Cars, Part II - 2009
- Mark Watson, Exams and Pubs - 2009
- Good Friday - 2007
- One of these days - 2005
- Today - 2003
April 6th, 2008 at 21:02
Erm… Still not seen the episode… And coming from this position think a spoiler warning might’ve been appropiate with certain comments (to be fair I did know it was coming but for the people who don’t you venture onto thin ice…)
Will report back after actually watching the thing!
April 6th, 2008 at 23:02
Ah sorry Alex, forgot you hadn’t seen the episode still! :-( But I guess once the episode has been aired it’s fair enough not to populate every post about a TV show with “spoiler warning”. I haven’t done that for any other episode other than the one which I watched on BBC3 which hadn’t been aired on terrestrial.
April 7th, 2008 at 15:56
I see where you’re coming from, and I’m not saying go through some elaborate censoring mechanisms. I’m just commenting that a warning might’ve been a good inclusion – like I said – I knew that was coming anyway! ;)
April 7th, 2008 at 17:33
Me again…
Have now watched said episode and I am happy to saw that I’m extremely impressed (think I need to re-think Chris Chibnall). True there were some iffy moments but the majority was extremely good and I think the special mention needs to go the music – when can we get the soundtrack CD?!