This month (July 09) said goodbye to the hugely popular Dr Who spin off series “Torchwood”. However, unlike Dr Who (the longest running sci-fi series ever), Torchwood only ran for three series, despite it’s popularity. In fact, only 31 episodes were ever made.
Set in present day Cardiff, the Torchwood team were responsible for dealing with all extra terrestrial incidents in the city, and there were many! According to the story, Cardiff is positioned on a rift in both space and time, which drew aliens to this city from all over the universe. The team would add the alien technology they came across to their own, as well as the power of the rift, in the battle to seek out alien threats, and prevent global disasters on a weekly basis.
For those who haven’t seen this, the story begins something like this…
In 2006, police officer Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) discovers evidence of alien life, and along with this she encounters the mysterious Torchwood team, and becomes determined to find out more. The leader of this team, Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), a time traveller from the 51st century who originally appeared in Dr Who (hence the link between the series) was so impressed with Gwen, that by the end of episode one, she is offered a place on the team. She is introduced to the other members, Dr Owen Harper (Burn Gorman), Toshiko (Tosh) Sato (Naoko Mori) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd). From this point on, her life will never be the same.
From series one, the character of Gwen was the viewer’s link to understanding how Torchwood worked, and through her we were introduced to the different alien life forms and technology featured in each episode. The others were so accustomed to many types of extra terrestrial encounters, but they needed to be explained to Gwen. This allowed the viewers to catch up!
By series two, the viewing public had become attached to the five main characters, as they were all so believable. However, this was also the beginning of the end for the series, as two of the five were killed in the line of duty. In fact one of these characters died twice (you need to see this to understand it)!
So then there were three. In between the showing of series two and three, the Torchwood team appeared in Dr Who, which brought the two shows together again, and reminded us (the viewers) of Torchwood’s origins. Then series three of Torchwood was announced with a new concept. This was to be a five episode series with only one story (before it had been a separate story per episode). It was also to be shown every night over a single week (Monday to Friday).
Torchwood series three entitled “Children of Earth”, exploded onto UK TV screens on Monday 6th July 2009. Whilst this was an amazing story (as always), I must admit I was expecting this to be a resurrection of the series, replacing those we had lost, and gearing up for series four. However, this was not to be the case, as one more regular character died, and the remaining two went their separate ways. This was to be the end of an era.
If you’ve never come across Torchwood before, I would highly recommend it. The storylines were always compelling and original, the characters well defined, and the actors were superb. In addition, this was brilliantly written and directed, with stunning special effects in every episode.
Torchwood can be found online via the following link:
http://tv-links.cc/search.php?q=torchwood&catid=tv&submit=Search
If you want to find out more about Dr Who, check it out here:
http://www.squidoo.com/doctor-who-2
Set in present day Cardiff, the Torchwood team were responsible for dealing with all extra terrestrial incidents in the city, and there were many! According to the story, Cardiff is positioned on a rift in both space and time, which drew aliens to this city from all over the universe. The team would add the alien technology they came across to their own, as well as the power of the rift, in the battle to seek out alien threats, and prevent global disasters on a weekly basis.
For those who haven’t seen this, the story begins something like this…
In 2006, police officer Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) discovers evidence of alien life, and along with this she encounters the mysterious Torchwood team, and becomes determined to find out more. The leader of this team, Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), a time traveller from the 51st century who originally appeared in Dr Who (hence the link between the series) was so impressed with Gwen, that by the end of episode one, she is offered a place on the team. She is introduced to the other members, Dr Owen Harper (Burn Gorman), Toshiko (Tosh) Sato (Naoko Mori) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd). From this point on, her life will never be the same.
From series one, the character of Gwen was the viewer’s link to understanding how Torchwood worked, and through her we were introduced to the different alien life forms and technology featured in each episode. The others were so accustomed to many types of extra terrestrial encounters, but they needed to be explained to Gwen. This allowed the viewers to catch up!
By series two, the viewing public had become attached to the five main characters, as they were all so believable. However, this was also the beginning of the end for the series, as two of the five were killed in the line of duty. In fact one of these characters died twice (you need to see this to understand it)!
So then there were three. In between the showing of series two and three, the Torchwood team appeared in Dr Who, which brought the two shows together again, and reminded us (the viewers) of Torchwood’s origins. Then series three of Torchwood was announced with a new concept. This was to be a five episode series with only one story (before it had been a separate story per episode). It was also to be shown every night over a single week (Monday to Friday).
Torchwood series three entitled “Children of Earth”, exploded onto UK TV screens on Monday 6th July 2009. Whilst this was an amazing story (as always), I must admit I was expecting this to be a resurrection of the series, replacing those we had lost, and gearing up for series four. However, this was not to be the case, as one more regular character died, and the remaining two went their separate ways. This was to be the end of an era.
If you’ve never come across Torchwood before, I would highly recommend it. The storylines were always compelling and original, the characters well defined, and the actors were superb. In addition, this was brilliantly written and directed, with stunning special effects in every episode.
Torchwood can be found online via the following link:
http://tv-links.cc/search.php?q=torchwood&catid=tv&submit=Search
If you want to find out more about Dr Who, check it out here:
http://www.squidoo.com/doctor-who-2
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