Torchwood

The BBC launched its new "Dr. Who for grown ups" today. Called Torchwood, it follows a team of alien artifact experts working to understand strange technology which has fallen through a gap in space/time and landed in Wales.

Or something.

It is high grade, imaginative hocum with a big budget look and I'm signing up. It is certainly not for kiddies, but this grown up likes it.

The first episode is very nicely plotted with a lovely twist at the end. The second overcooks things a little bit, but is still worth watching.

And it looks like there are some lovely plot arcs being slotted into place.

BBC 2 is repeating the program on Wednesdy night. Worth a watch.

Comments

[Jo]

Aye. Tis uber, it has to be said. Luckily, BBC3 being one of like 4 Digital channels we can get in Hull.

Any thoughts as to which timelord that severed hand might belong to?

[Rob]

Hmm. I've got a big shiny aerial and I can get lots of digital channels. (pity that most of them are rubbish unless you are drunk - PriceDrop TV anyone?)

Anyhoo, I reckon that the hand is actually Jack's, it is the only bit of him that is still real....

[Jo]

Ooh. Good call. No doubt we will find out come the climax of the series. Looks like I'll have to watch the whole series now. Oh well... ^_^

[Geoff]

THE Severed Hand: Didn't David Tennant lose a hand in The Christmas Invasion?

[Willeth]

It's a right of passage for any sci-fi series worth its salt that somebody loses a hand at some point or other.

[Rob]

And it also happened in Peter Pan too....

[Digitalkatie]

I'm loving the new series. Six of us (mainly physics teachers - must be the "Science is good" message Doctor Who promotes ;-) are getting together to watch Torchwood tomorrow.

Strangely, did you know that TORCHWOOD is an anagram of DOCTOR WHO?