It was worth a try 
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Oh it’s always worth a try!
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Do you have the opening chapters of The Twilight Streets on your guide?
The first two chapters take place in August 1941, then the rest of the story is Season 2 pre-Reset.
Oh huh, I don’t
Will get to it when I read Twilight Streets though I think
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Listened to Instant Karma today and now realise that this is the first story of the TWMR I do not recognise listening to. I’m caught up to the ones I listened to previously!
It’s all new for me from here!
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Slow Decay - 9/10 (Spoilers)
Slow Decay takes everything that works from the TV Show and expands on it.
A strange, esoteric alien threat, but with a real human villain. Great character conflict and general human drama, including Gwen and Rhys having some really great relationship drama that doesn’t involve anyone cheating on each other, and some great characterisation for the rest of the team, especially Owen.
Also just the descriptions are incredible. This book made me viscerally uncomfortable at points, both with the graphic descriptions of blood and gore, describing just enough to leave the worst to the imagination, and with the inner voice that you get at points. One moment in particular comes to mind where Rhys and Gwen are arguing, their emotions boosted by an alien device, but the emotions and thoughts still being their own (and explicitly called out as such). That moment hit me especially hard, and it’s extremely well written.
The plotting also feels really well paced, everything coming together really nicely with solid explanations and payoffs to everything that’s set up.
I could see this being an episode of the show easily, it just slots right in perfectly as well as telling a really compelling story, and honestly, what more could you want?
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Something I was thinking about - I dunno if it was ever covered in the TV show, if it has then I’ve completely forgotten it.
(Spoilers for after Countrycide):
Did Rhys ever discover that Gwen slept with Owen? If not on TV, then in the EU? How did he forgive her? I just imagine those two are thick as thieves, especially in the audios, but does he know?
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In Combat, Gwen tells him, begging him for forgiveness before revealing that she retconned and drugged him like Jack did to her in Everything Changes. He doesn’t forgive her and calls her selfish before falling asleep.
I think it’s pretty much ignored come season 2, can’t remember any mention of it in the EU and can’t see any on either of their wiki pages
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Oh yes! I remember that now, thanks! Pretty brutal stuff.
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I’d definitely recommend the older BBC Audio ones, they’re great for filling in that gap of Jack/Gwen/Ianto stories
- Lost Souls gives a great look into the team’s feelings post-Exit Wounds, and has Martha in it too!
- Asylum is pretty solid for Andy’s characterisation, and has him finally really learning about Torchwood (pre-Season 3 where he seems to have a better idea)
- Golden Age Gives a bit more history of Torchwood, featuring Torchwood India (and is written by James Goss who’s always great)
- The Dead Line is a pretty solid feel for what a ‘standard’ season 2.5 story would’ve been imo
And then the three BBC Audios they dubbed ‘The Lost Files’
- The Devil and Miss Carew is another solid ‘standard’ season 2.5 story imo
- Submission gives us some backstory and great characterisation for Ianto
- House of the Dead is a James Goss script, a 10/10 and favourite for me on the guide, and does some brilliant character stuff for Jack and Ianto, though much better going in without knowing much.
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Considering what you (@shauny ) have listened to,
There’s a reference to The Lost Files events in ‘More Than This’ and in TSC S5, and the Carly character who was referenced by Rachel in Before The Fall first also first appeared in The Lost Files
Just from memory.
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The Torchwood Archive also references Golden Age with the TW India segment, and it’s one of the BBC Audiobooks, not the BBC Audio Dramas, but the TW Archive also references Ghost Train at one point
(those all being Goss stories it makes sense)
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James Goss my beloved, let him write for the main show RTD, I need it
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I had no idea any of the TW audios referenced the bbc ones… at all… 
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They’re minor enough that if you don’t know what to listen out for you’d probably miss them tbf.
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So you listened to Disco without House of The Dead?
People do that???
My hearttt 
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MINOR?!?!? 
/Hj
Yeah, they’re not all that important~~
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Oh no, I’ve heard all the bbc audiodramas for Torchwood, but I really don’t think they’re required listening at all tbh
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I heavily disagree for certain stories… Idk I just like it all being fleshed out I suppose 
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Personally the only ones I’d really say are especially worth listening to are Golden Age and The House of the Dead
They’re all worth it if you really want, but those are the standouts for me
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