I'm currently watching Torchwood's 3-episode Children of Earth on BBC iPlayer.
All 41 Torchwood episodes are on iPlayer..
I must say I'm enjoying Children of Earth. I'm some way through episode 2. the only downside is the incessant music, which reminds me of a discordant war of the Worlds soundtrack.
Not being up on modern Doctor Who I was wondering if readers knew the origin of Captain Jack Harkness? Was he in Dr. Who? Was Torchwood?
I wonder if readers think that Torchwood is as good as modern Dr. Who? It is the same writer I think.
Jack first appears in Eccleston Who. He is made immortal almost by accident as a side effect of something Rose does whilst channeling the power of the Tardis. Torchwood is set up by Queen Victoria in response to events she experiences in a Tennant story. Jack heads one of the Torchwood branches many decades later.
ReplyDeleteTorchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who.
ReplyDeleteCapt Jack appears in Dr Who Tennant episodes and later, quite a bit. Annoyingly, there is also a suggestion of a love interest between Jack and the Doctor. The charachter of jack is quite a fascinating and clever idea, but John Barrowmans portrayal, with its overtly pansexual and quite hedonistic desires overshadows the essential theme, as all the supporting characters seem inexplicably drawn to fall for him, irrespective of race, orientation or species! Russell T Davies appeared to be making the show into a bit of a soapbox for gay liberation, which at the time, seemed a little at odds with a childrens programme like Dr Who. Torchwood, being a post watershed show, had no such issues, but the themes began to bleed into Who. The themes of alien artefacts and immortality or invulnerability should have been foremost in the writing, not sex and realtionships and these peculiarly human tendencies.
ReplyDeleteI'm just about to start episode 4, the finale I think. I've enjoyed the first three. It sort of reminds me of Quatermass Conclusion with John Mills for some reason. Midwich Cuckoos springs to mind as well.
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