Torchwood

It’s odd the way a writer’s career can leave a permanent imprint on their style. Take Russell T Davies. Not a trace of soap opera in his style, is there?

Oh wait…

Joseph Lidster is already quite a well known Who writer. He’s done a number of Big Finish plays, as well as Torchwood fan fics original licensed novels. 

Take a look at the average Big Finish play – Doctor or assistant bumps into random mortal at some point and starts blurbing their life story and deepest feelings to them.

Lo-and-behold, Joe Lidster’s first Torchwood episode turned out to be pretty much a Big Finish play in disguise.

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Firstly, a quick word about the Torchwood reviews. Obviously, it’s all getting a bit tricky now that BBC3 is airing the next episode directly after the current BBC2 episode, and BBC America is a couple of weeks behind BBC2. So my general reviewing policy will be to review on Thursdays the episode of Torchwood that aired on BBC2 on Wednesday night. I’ll also keep the spoilers until after the turn.

I figure that people who can only watch the BBC2 episode will then be able to read the review the next day without having to hunt for it with the search engine; people who watched the BBC3 episode will be able to read the review on the front page as well, but the following week; and Americans, well, it’s probably search engine for you guys, but I’ll hopefully not be spoiling you. That’s probably the most equitable arrangement and it does mean I won’t have to stay up late to watch the BBC3 episode, but can watch it at my leisure.

Dead Man Walking then. I believe last week we left the official verdict at: 

Ahahahahah. I’ve seen next week’s. Ahahahahahahaha.

[Pause]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And that’s still a pretty robust verdict. All the same, far from the worst episode of Torchwood there’s ever been.

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