I actually thought the bulk of the second series of Torchwood wasn’t bad – the non-killing off of Owen annoyed me a bit, but generally the stories were pretty good, indeed the episode last week wasn’t bad, aside from the somewhat amazing fact that Owen – who lest we forget now cannot recover from any [...]

After the shock conclusion to Reset, and especially if you’ve sat through Russell T along with various of the other production team members going on about needing to kill a major character (as an aside it was decidedly amusing that all the cast, like me, still associate Alan Dale with Jim Robinson), the fact that [...]

It’s funny, however many times I see Alan Dale playing the bad guy, as he has done in a number of shows, and does again in the second of this weeks Torchwood episodes, I still think of him as nice old Jim Robinson from Neighbours…
Anyway, in Reset, the episode of Torchwood that went out on [...]

Thanks to a bit of schedule changing by the BBC, this week we got a double bill of new Torchwood episodes, as BBC3 take over showing the first run of the new episode every week.
First up we have Adam. Gwen returns after some time away with her fiancee Rhys to find a stranger called Adam [...]

There is a plot device much beloved of writers, which is to have a character that doesn’t know some big secret, a secret which the audience is in on. More often than not it’s some long suffering partner or potential partner – Lois Lane in Superman, or Mary Jane Watson in Spiderman being prime examples. [...]