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Torchwood!!!!

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differentID · 06/07/2009 21:01

yippee!! on now.

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PeachyTheRiverParrettHarlot · 10/07/2009 22:39

twofalls to use as an amplifier / channel to set the frequency that destroyed the 456- turning their own technology on them.

One child to save millions etc

womblingfree · 10/07/2009 22:39

corn - the PM told him they would take his kids in order to publicise it and make the public trust that they were doing the right thing (bit like John Gummer getting his DD to eat a burger on camera at the height of the mad-cow disease saga)

I was really disappointed with the series- call me shallow but I liked the funny, sexy Torchwood. This was so harrowing it was like watching a sci-fi version of 'Jude' which is the only other film I've seen that was so distressing I couldn't actually cry.

MomDePlume · 10/07/2009 22:40

twofalls, because they needed to use a child to relay a particular frequency back to the 456 in order to destroy them. And they only had a few minutes to do it, and jack's child was the only one nearby, so he did it even though he knew the child's brain would be destroyed like Clem's had been.

cornsilk · 10/07/2009 22:40

TheOddOne - I thought the same when Jack's daughter left her son with the soldiers. No way would she have left him in real life in that situation. Not that it would have made any difference to the outcome.

JackieNo · 10/07/2009 22:41

ON a related note, just spotted this pic of the monster from the Waters of Mars next DW episode - not sure I'll be letting the DCs watch it - that looks really scary to me.

RealityIsMyOnlyDelusion · 10/07/2009 22:41

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GColdtimer · 10/07/2009 22:41

thanks peachy

Sounds utterly grim

AitchTwoOh · 10/07/2009 22:41

yy but the frobisher thing was just fucking STUPID. he wasn't a public figure, there was no real value in his being used for marketing the drug. john selwyn gummer, that's who they needed.

RustyBear · 10/07/2009 22:42

Thing is, Jack's from the 51st century & he knows a lot about what happened in his past - in the first episode he said 'The 21st century's when it all changes and you've got to be ready'- so he obviously knew quite a lot of 21st century history, but he probably wouldn't know every detail. Maybe he knew there had been a major threat in 2009 that was averted by the sacrifice of a single child & suddenly realised what it meant; that he had to do it?

bronze · 10/07/2009 22:42

I'm confused I thought Steven was playing fooball with soldiers no the other politicians children

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cornsilk · 10/07/2009 22:42

He would have tried to hide them though surely.

GColdtimer · 10/07/2009 22:42

and to momdeplume and reality....

I really don't think I will bother watching it.

JackieNo · 10/07/2009 22:43

Aitch - I thought of gummer too.

scrappydappydoo · 10/07/2009 22:43

sorry - told you I don't normally watch...

UnquietDad · 10/07/2009 22:43

I thought Jack chose him because he couldn't ask anyone else to give up their child, not because he was the only one available in the time. Maybe I'm wrong.

AitchTwoOh · 10/07/2009 22:43

he was playing football with a bunch of kids, how was he the only one?

KayHarkerIsKayHarker · 10/07/2009 22:44

Yes, Water of Mars looks proper halloween scary stuff.

Hopefully this is the end of Torchwood. I'll be glad to see the back of it. Great concept eaten up by worthy and/or fanfic style plotting.

Plus it's made you all traumatized. Naughty Torchwood, go to your room and stay there.

womblingfree · 10/07/2009 22:44

Don't think he had the time...PM was horrible - really like he couldn't give Sh** when he told him - think that was probably the worst part of it for me.

Can't believe they reckon they might do another series - when you're dead lie down (although given the CJ's immortal I guess that theory's irrelevant!)

AitchTwoOh · 10/07/2009 22:44

yy that's what i thought, ud. also the fact that jack had sacrificed children previously with no personal loss. but it was still bullshit.

cornsilk · 10/07/2009 22:44

I think so too UQD. It would have been easy for them to grab a child from a nearby home.

KayHarkerIsKayHarker · 10/07/2009 22:46

Of course, this will all never happen once RTD presses his big red reset button at Christmas

JamieJay · 10/07/2009 22:46

merr - I see you point but as womblingfree says, it's not what I expected / wanted etc. from Torchwood. Maybe that makes me shallow.

JB was seen down the road from my office (which was actually in Torchwood this week LOL) filming with DT for the Doctor Who special, will be interesting to see how these events are covered in that.

JackieNo · 10/07/2009 22:47

Stephen wasn't playing football with kids - but with some of the soldiers, wasn't he? And they were in a secret warehouse/prison, so presumably not near a convenient village.

BlackLetterDay · 10/07/2009 22:47

Perhaps Dp will finally get his wish and have a U.N.I.T spin-off. Haven't they already written the new series of torchwood though, can't say I care, series 1&2 could never quite hold my interest.