Torchwood: Children Of The Earth
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Dear faithful readers,
Have you seen the latest season of Torchwood?
I will be the first one to admit I was feeling a bit iffy regarding BBC’s new scheme to turn into a five day TV event. But I realized it was just greediness on my part because I wanted to have 13 episodes to sink my teeth into (no True Blood pun intended).
I got into Torchwood last summer, there was nothing to watch and well beggars can’t be choosers. And sure John Barrowman does ham it up a bit (OK, a lot) and the aliens are not really that believable (they are aliens for heaven’s sake, that’s the whole point) but you know it’s telly and since I never was a Dr. Who girl myself I thought I might give it a whirl.
Well Torchwood: Children of the Earth surpassed any expectations I might have had. It was absolutely bloody brilliant. Without spoiling anything for anyone (from what I have gathered many people recorded it to watch it in one go) Earth is once again facing an alien threat but this time the aliens want children. A lot of them.
While there was still some hamming up on John Barrowman’s part, the cast was superb, the story was tight as a drum – in fact the last hour was positively harrowing to watch. I admit I am a big wuss sometimes but honestly if you didn’t feel a lump in your throat or at least got goose bumps all down your spine well are you human or a machine? The storyline had plenty of cliffhangers and pushed the characters to the absolute limit, hell I even enjoyed the music and the editing.
I have read a great review and interview with the show’s creator Russell T Davis over at The Watcher blog at Chicago Tribune and he says he did want to attract new viewers.
If the numbers are anything to go by (6 million viewers every single night compared to 3.1 million viewers during season 2) that is a whole lot of new viewers. Also there is a great interview with John Barrowman at Pop Candy. (tee hee at what women enjoy to watch the most
On the side note – in the comments under the interview Whitney mentioned there might be two (TWO!) Torchwood TV events next year! How cool would that be? Now I will not even suggest you should watch first and second season of Torchwood to catch up if you haven’t seen it before (the storyline for third season is not really connected to the previous episodes).
But do watch Torchwood: Children of the Earth – you will be missing a fantastic piece of telly if you do not.
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