Torchwood: Children of Earth DAY THREE grading thread

[Jim Steele]

Tense, mature without being that kiddy 'adult' that TWs1 was, deep.

The 456 playing along with Frobisher about keeping the first event hidden, and then blatantly asking for kids again. And holy shit, ten percent! Whoa!

I called it, I said to my kids "Jack's the bus driver" at the end of ep 1. But I didn't realise how badly it had gone. What did they do with the kids? And what will they do with the rest?

Wouldn't it have been great if TW had been like this from the start?

I think Owen would have worked if he'd still been there. Burn Gorham has a face like a smashed melon, but he can be an actor of some subtlety and depth. Tosh... not so much, on all counts. What's she doing now?

I have no idea how this is going to play out. Which is great.

I didn't quite give it the top vote, but I'm absolutely agreed with you here on all points.

For some reason I tend to reserve the "excellent" vote for those rare, mythical TV moments that strike such a deep, life changing chord that, well, I dunno, you'd end up changing to Weetabix and buying a gym subscription or something.

(jiggly bewbs!)

Well said, that man.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

What is this 'Deadline' people keep mentioning? If it's one of the radio plays then sorry but it has zero bearing on the TV series so repetition/contradiction is fine.

 

[Flibble]

I just thought of the most horrific part of this episode was all to do with the Torchwood contact lenses. If you wear contact lenses (and I do) would you put in a pair of lenses that you had just seen worn by someone else, and who knows how many people before that? Ewwwww....

 

[Captain Shaw]

I just thought of the most horrific part of this episode was all to do with the Torchwood contact lenses. If you wear contact lenses (and I do) would you put in a pair of lenses that you had just seen worn by someone else, and who knows how many people before that? Ewwwww....

I kept thinking that also you never know if it the ones jack wore in the bedroom so good knows whats on them.

 

[Mr Awe]

like Mr Awe said the Torchwood team still have not done alot, but Torchwood is like 24 in that respect, Jack spends the first few episodes clearing up one thing, but later leads to the big threat, in this case what can Torchwood do? they need to learn about the 456 to know how to stop it, and Lois is the only way to do that.

Well, to be sure, I enjoyed it. I'm stingy with giving out the top grade to any show. To get the top mark it has to be firing on all cylinders. Characters, action, plotting, etc all have to be top notch.

For this episode, Torchwood mostly sat and watched a screen and there were some other mixed bag things that I mentioned in my review. It's certainly possible to write a script where the main characters are actively participating in the central plot. As it's written, Lois is the only way to find things out. But, it didn't have to be written that way.

While a lot went right in this episode, not everything did. Hence, the above average great. It still takes a very good episode to reach that mark. I just don't give Excellents (or whatever they're being called) willy nilly. Everything has to be working to reach that mark. Even for my favorite programs, they only receive excellents once or twice a season (series for the UK folks).

Mr Awe

 

[wamdue]

For this episode, Torchwood mostly sat and watched a screen and there were some other mixed bag things that I mentioned in my review. It's certainly possible to write a script where the main characters are actively participating in the central plot. As it's written, Lois is the only way to find things out. But, it didn't have to be written that way.

it started to feel like The Christmas Invasion, which features the Doctor in bed, whilst Harriet Jones & UNIT do most of the alien stuff, and the Doctor comes in near the end to sort things out.

 

[Starkers]

rights lets start with the 456, very hidden, that or they were the dust on my half heartily cleaned TV, I hope we do get a good look, very strange behaviour, in the tank however.

Actually for a 456 that's very normal behaviour and why do we have to see what they look like? The scariest things are the things you have to imagine...or am I just really old?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

rights lets start with the 456, very hidden, that or they were the dust on my half heartily cleaned TV, I hope we do get a good look, very strange behaviour, in the tank however.

Actually for a 456 that's very normal behaviour and why do we have to see what they look like? The scariest things are the things you have to imagine...or am I just really old?

Totally agree, suggestion is much more scary/creepy. If we do see them let it be a brief glimpse.

 

[Starkers]

If we do see them I just hope we're not dissapointed...fog could be covering a multitude of sins...

 

[wamdue]

If we do see them I just hope we're not dissapointed...fog could be covering a multitude of sins...

we have seen some of them now, TBH if it was left as a tank of fog it would just seem like they were trying to get away with not having to actually make the aliens.

 

[IndyJones]

I just thought of the most horrific part of this episode was all to do with the Torchwood contact lenses. If you wear contact lenses (and I do) would you put in a pair of lenses that you had just seen worn by someone else, and who knows how many people before that? Ewwwww....

Well, it depends what type of solution they were kept in and how they were cleaned. We certainly reuse rigid gas permeable contact lenses on any number of patients (those if memory serves the lenses shown were soft).

 

[jamestyler]

If we do see them I just hope we're not dissapointed...fog could be covering a multitude of sins...

we have seen some of them now, TBH if it was left as a tank of fog it would just seem like they were trying to get away with not having to actually make the aliens.

Aye. I hear that was why ou never see the Cloverfield monster either.

 

[captcalhoun]

you do. there's a honking big shot of it near the end!

IN CLEAR DAYLIGHT!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cloverfeildcloseup.png

 

[jamestyler]

Never seen it, I was just being cuntish

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Bumping the thread, for tonight's broadcast on BBC America.

Day Three. Let's get deep.

 

[Captain Dago]

Very strong episode in keeping tension level high. Unlike some of the commenters above, I was surprised that Captain Jack had a part in turning over the kids in 1965. I'd thought he'd learned about it later and/or opposed it.

Frobisher and Black Ops Chick MUST die -- they are EVIL! But so, alas, must Jack's Daughter. She has "sacrificial lamb" written all over her. Besides, if she's not killed, fans are going to want her to become semi-regular and I'll bet that's not going to happen. They can more conveniently stash the grandson with some other relative far away so he never appears again.

 

[Mr Light]

Part 3 was a mite bit slower as the characters just sit around watching the alien conversation, but it was still intriguing. They've really managed to make these aliens creepy and scary and all-powerful. Their arrival in the column of fire was yet another well-crafted event sequence, like when the Titanic gets hit in Voyage of the Damned or when the Master wakes up.