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patentdragonAnd so, we come to the conclusion of our latest dose of Whoniverse - Torchwood: Children Of Earth...
Anyway...
Five hours of top-notch TV. On consecutive nights. That's unheard of on British TV. Take a bow, ladies and gentlemen of BBC Wales...
...but 1) did you have to finish with the weakest end-game since Independence Day? Four days of build-up, and in ten minutes the aliens are defeated by Captain Jack doing a high-tech DJ-session in a hanger? Kinda says to me that the ending was written in a hurry. Not exactly the best way to do "event television", is it?
2) Why didn't Jack give his grandson the chance to choose to make the ultimate sacrifice for himself? Government man Frobisher seemed to come out of the whole thing with more honour, and he shot his own children rather than have them become "drugs" for The 456. And...
3) ...wouldn't it have been a better ending for Jack's "running away" to not be an act of complete cowardice from a man we thought had bettered himself since his first appearance, but a sneaky way to sever the last ties with Gwen, letting her bring up her baby well away from Torchwood? Jack could have blinked out of Gwen's life, and reappeared elsewhere at the base of a new Torchwood operation, with the Government insider Lois as his first recruit?
At the very least Jack should have had a climactic face-to-face confrontation with The 456, going toe-to-"toe" with the beastie and punching it to a slimy, bloody pulp. The exposure to the alien's environment could have sowed the seeds for his eventual transformation into The Face of Boe. - but no, that's just too clever, isn't it?
Despite the shortcomings of Day Five, they didn't detract too much from the series as a whole. Some brave, non-PC choices were made, in that the good guys don't always get to ride off into the sunset, proud of their victory. I'll give this a "punching well above its weight" 4 out of 5.
Most Valuable Player... Peter Capaldi a.k.a. John Frobisher. Powerful stuff as he portrays a man caught in the whirlpool of politics and morality, until there is no choice left but the unthinkable. I salute you, sir.
It's going to be a LONG time before we see anything quite this good on TV again, I suspect.
Anyway...
Five hours of top-notch TV. On consecutive nights. That's unheard of on British TV. Take a bow, ladies and gentlemen of BBC Wales...
...but 1) did you have to finish with the weakest end-game since Independence Day? Four days of build-up, and in ten minutes the aliens are defeated by Captain Jack doing a high-tech DJ-session in a hanger? Kinda says to me that the ending was written in a hurry. Not exactly the best way to do "event television", is it?
2) Why didn't Jack give his grandson the chance to choose to make the ultimate sacrifice for himself? Government man Frobisher seemed to come out of the whole thing with more honour, and he shot his own children rather than have them become "drugs" for The 456. And...
3) ...wouldn't it have been a better ending for Jack's "running away" to not be an act of complete cowardice from a man we thought had bettered himself since his first appearance, but a sneaky way to sever the last ties with Gwen, letting her bring up her baby well away from Torchwood? Jack could have blinked out of Gwen's life, and reappeared elsewhere at the base of a new Torchwood operation, with the Government insider Lois as his first recruit?
At the very least Jack should have had a climactic face-to-face confrontation with The 456, going toe-to-"toe" with the beastie and punching it to a slimy, bloody pulp. The exposure to the alien's environment could have sowed the seeds for his eventual transformation into The Face of Boe. - but no, that's just too clever, isn't it?
Despite the shortcomings of Day Five, they didn't detract too much from the series as a whole. Some brave, non-PC choices were made, in that the good guys don't always get to ride off into the sunset, proud of their victory. I'll give this a "punching well above its weight" 4 out of 5.
Most Valuable Player... Peter Capaldi a.k.a. John Frobisher. Powerful stuff as he portrays a man caught in the whirlpool of politics and morality, until there is no choice left but the unthinkable. I salute you, sir.
It's going to be a LONG time before we see anything quite this good on TV again, I suspect.
