Well, watched Everything Changes. Good setup, Gwen is likeable, most everyone else isn’t. Torchwood, home of rapists and murderers, apparently. May as well head into the next episode…
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I’ve finally made a start watching Torchwood (mainly because it’s an area of the Whoniverse I’ve not really engaged with before now[1], but also because I want that pride badge and this seemed the quickest way to get through ten stories). I thought this was a really fantastic opener, personally - Gwen being our audience surrogate works very effectively here, as we get an outsider’s view of Torchwood for most of the hour. Eve Myles and John Barrowman are both really great, and Indira Varma is fantastic in her confrontation with Gwen and Jack. The rest of the cast don’t really get a lot to do, but I think we get a decent enough sense of them as characters for the first episode. I’m not sure introducing Owen by having him drug two people to sleep with was the best choice though (to put it mildly!) - I appreciate that we’re getting some bisexual representation in 2006, but the whole moment is definitely very gross.
Otherwise, I don’t think I have a bad word to say about this episode - the central plot is compelling, with plenty of great scenes, and it definitely left me wanting more. I know the next few episodes are supposed to be a bit rougher, but I’ll see how it goes.
I’ve only seen Gwen and Ianto’s appearance in the series 4 finale, a few episodes of Children of Earth, and listened to Ghost Mission ↩︎
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