Torchwood!!!!

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yippee!! on now.

that was the first and the last time i'll watch that.

found that very disturbing, especially the little boy's death.

I assumed that the rest of the 456 are still pootling on out there harassing other planets.

the woman with the prime minister scared me. creepy eyes or summat

That was nasty television. DH and I hated it and we love Torchwood. Death of grandson far too traumatic - combined with Cpt J obv losing any emotion / empathy at all.

Nasty.

And pointless really.

Also - ok so the woman who loved Frobisher is releasing that footage to the world but that means that the woman with the furry face may end up as PM. If they released the convo from yesterday there's no way she would.

Nasty.

Unnecessarily so.

And i still don't get why the aliens buggered off at a high pitched screech.

dd2 was being annoying when dekker started revealing himself as a wrong 'un. what happened and what was the point of him being a baddie, he just seemed to be defeatist to me, not bad as such. but the actor was practically twirling his moustache.

Who were the 456? Aliens duh! Don't you know anything?

Why was Clem smelltastic? He couldn't actually smell stuff - was just nuts

Why did the soldiers know to stop? Texts. They all had texts telling them to stop grabbing children. It crashed networks so some carried on grabbing and only found out their error at 3am.

l39 i thought that but could you iamgine the civil unrest? the world really would be decinmated wouldnt it?

if someone had been lanning to kill your kids, would you shrug and say better vote for the opposition then? many wouldn't...

The best moment was the brief moment of comedy when they surrounded the car claiming paedo- that was Gold.

The rest was stunning horror. Wonderful but I wouldn't watch again.

dd2 was being annoying when dekker started revealing himself as a wrong 'un. what happened and what was the point of him being a baddie, he just seemed to be defeatist to me, not bad as such. but the actor was practically twirling his moustache.

I cried through half the episode, but thought the ending was rubbish It was a happy ending - millions of children saved etc - but didnt feel like it.

I fear that might have been the end of Torchwood........

It was just nasty. There was no hope anywhere.

don't see enough baddies with decent moustaches these days

I feel the same BFM. Far too black and also unsatisfying at the end. The sacrifice of Stephen was impossible to watch. Am just depressed now, without that feeling of redemption that it COULD have delivered. Yes, OK, it made a lot of valid political and moral points in an effective way but I can't help thinking it's irresponsible to leave an audience feeling so bleak.

its all a buid up to the dh special isn't it?
so Jack can become the face of boe, he had to suffer some great trauma, killing his grandson to defend against something he may have been able to stop (but didn't) in 1965?

I think most of the human stuff has been pretty spot on if hard to accept, we would all do anything to protect our families, even if we had to hurt others.

The doctor wouldn't have sacrificed a child to save the world. There's no way back for Jack from this. His daughter might play a part in Torchwood though.

Sorry - this thread is moving far too fast!

meh.

That is all.

I was hugging myself so hard during it I thought my underwire might break . Had to make a concerted effort not to hug so tight. ANd that wasn't in a good way - the tension, and the nastiness. I don't want to dislike captain Jack, but now I do.

Might be misremembering, but didn't the doctor turn out to be the one who caused the eruption in that Pompeii episode, cornsilk, thus sacrificing loads of women and children in order to save the world?

Actually, this reminded me more of Spooks at its best than of Dr Who.

the dr would sacrifice one if it meant saving many

Yes, but the Doctor is a big old fat hypocrite, and he very often doesn't hold himself to quite the same standards he holds others.

There will be alot of younger children watching too. Some whose parents don't know how bad it gets and some who don't care (i know a few of each).

.........nasty.

Peachy - love your suggested questions. Maybe the government knew how many 456 were out there from 1965? Weak that they didn't address it, IMO - OK, scriptwriters like to leave gaps we fill in for ourselves, but this one doesn't feel right, doesn't work, somehow.