It’s starts TOMORROW, on Monday for 5 nights straight. Even if you’ve never seen an episode of Torchwood or Doctor Who, you can watch, understand and enjoy what is going on.
This is mindbendingly good TV and would NEVER have been made for American TV. For as TERRIBLE as the first season of Torchwood was this… this was maybe the best thing I’ve seen this year.
I know everyone is going to be buzzing about Comic Con this coming week, but it would be a real crime if this gets passed over by Sci Fi Fans.
DISCLAIMER- This is NOT a show for kids! Don’t watching with the young’uns. Also there is homosexuality depicted between two of characters. Just giving you a warning if you are sensitive to that sort of thing, but I would really hope that’s not a deterrent for people in 2009, and that you can overcome that bias in the spirit of watching a great story unfold.
Here are a couple of trailers for it to whet your appetite.
The series is set in Cardiff and follows the Welsh branch of a covert agency called the Torchwood Institute which investigates extraterrestrial incidents on Earth and scavenges alien technology for its own use (its origins are outlined in the Doctor Who episode "Tooth and Claw"). To paraphrase Torchwood Three’s commander-in-chief, Captain Jack Harkness, the organisation is separate from the government, outside the police, and beyond the United Nations. Their public perception is as merely a ‘special ops’ group. The events of the first series take place some time after the Doctor Whoseries two finale, in which Torchwood’s London headquarters were destroyed.
If I were you I wouldn’t read too much more of the Wiki entry as it does have spoilers for these episode.
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH!
I don’t know where they will go with the show after these 5 hours, but I’m with them all the way.
And now back to my regularly scheduled Comic Con preparations….
It’s really kind of sad that you need to leave a disclaimer regarding “homosexual” relationships with this show. If people want quality TV, they should be able to take it in whatever form it is delivered.
Wow, I liked otrkwood seasons 1 and 2, so according to your comments, season 3 is even better.
Pity I’ll have to wayt ages until one Spaniash channel picks it and dub it to Spanish (not that I need it, but in Spanish TV all series and movies are dubbed, so in the end there is at least 6 months delay, if not more).
I’m so freaking heartbroken to be without television right now, as I love this show. I recently moved and don’t even know people around here that I could watch it with. My only hope is that it comes out on DVD shortly after it airs.
At any rate, enjoy the show, I’ll be there in spirit.
and yet, you’re not overselling it. At all. It’s on the short list for best teevee of the decade, and might be the best thing to come out of the ’05 relaunch of Doctor Who.
I’d disagree with you on Torchwood season 1, though. There were big missteps, but it had some really brilliant moments, like the first time we learn Jack can’t die, the Cyberwoman, the risen-mitten (i’m convinced Pushing Daisies ripped this concept off), Jack meeting his namesake, and the best (if ultimately sort of misleading) season finale cliffhanger ever.
Julius Marx was know the world over for 10 years as the title character in the long running TV cop-on-the-edge show “Hockuly!” Now he writes about and takes pictures of toys and attempts to put all his weird knowledge to work for him. He has been collecting toys his entire life.
It’s really kind of sad that you need to leave a disclaimer regarding “homosexual” relationships with this show. If people want quality TV, they should be able to take it in whatever form it is delivered.
I will give it a try, and get back to you.
Thanks for the reccomendation.
Wow, I liked otrkwood seasons 1 and 2, so according to your comments, season 3 is even better.
Pity I’ll have to wayt ages until one Spaniash channel picks it and dub it to Spanish (not that I need it, but in Spanish TV all series and movies are dubbed, so in the end there is at least 6 months delay, if not more).
So please enjoy the series for me…
I’m so freaking heartbroken to be without television right now, as I love this show. I recently moved and don’t even know people around here that I could watch it with. My only hope is that it comes out on DVD shortly after it airs.
At any rate, enjoy the show, I’ll be there in spirit.
and yet, you’re not overselling it. At all. It’s on the short list for best teevee of the decade, and might be the best thing to come out of the ’05 relaunch of Doctor Who.
I’d disagree with you on Torchwood season 1, though. There were big missteps, but it had some really brilliant moments, like the first time we learn Jack can’t die, the Cyberwoman, the risen-mitten (i’m convinced Pushing Daisies ripped this concept off), Jack meeting his namesake, and the best (if ultimately sort of misleading) season finale cliffhanger ever.
Watched ‘Day One’ and loved it. I just hope it gets better from here.
Saw this here in the UK.
Considering the content, particularly of the final episode, I’m really surprised it was on only just after the watershed (it showed at 9pm here)
It’s also a fairly accurate indicator of how the UK population view our leaders and our relationship with the Americans.
Not for the faint hearted, especially if all you’ve seen is Doctor Who.
Jo