Torchwood!!!!

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yippee!! on now.

oh missed this thread, it's rather good isn't it? although henry winkler caused me to miss much of ep 1.

I still think it is fatally flawed by the presence of the work experience girl at the very centre of it all. Even the excuse about the implied affair was a bit feeble IMO...

I ignored DS1 coming down from bed last night to tell me that DS2 was climbing on his bookshelves . Bad bad mummy.

Didn't think tonight's was quite as good, though liked the vomiting (?) aliens.

Seriously though - I wonder why they have asked for the children.

You'd think, given the powers they have demonstrated so far, they could just take them.

So maybe they don't want the children. It's scarier than that. They want the human race to make the choice.

It's all gone far too soap opera. Secret agents who fight aliens really don' need family complications at all.
jack naked did make up for it a bit but although enjoyable this is nowhere near as good as the previous series.

Not really watched Torchwood before but I am loving this! Heard a rumour that the Dr might make an appearance before the week is out...

I taught little ds to randomly stand still in a zombie way and say "we are coming" last night when dh got home. I was ROFL.

I'm really enjoying this. Didn't see the first two series, were they as good?

pigs - 1st two series were patchier.

I bet it's going to go all "Sophie's Choice" in the next 2 eps. Some people will be arguing we should let them have their 10% and even deciding who...

Can I ask?

Is this before the end of the last Dr Who.....or after?

Maybe we could fob them off with 10% of Mumsnetters?

katymac - it's after. I assume. No evidence that it isn't.

I bet there's a child lottery.

Ooh I could offer them more than 10% of the kids I know who I'd happily see carted off by aliens

Over on the Doctor Who discussion forum they are arguing as to whether the 456 monster "mimicked" Frobisher at one point ("is there anything I can do to help?") or if that was just the voice-software of the Torchwood laptop coming in a bit late.

I think it was the latter, although it was a bit of a misleading directorial cut if so. Maybe the laptop software should have had a female voice to avoid any ambiguity...

edwardbit me - you're on to something! RTD has been listening to the dinner-party chatter of his friends - it's all a big metaphor for school admissions!!...

UD - I thought it mimicked Frobisher, but then none of them mentioned it so I thought I might be mistaken.

Sugar - where did that rumour come from? It would be SO good if he did show up

I think it must be after DW4... unless they do some rapid rebuilding of the Hub.

I notice the Doctor did get a brief mention today.

Can I please have the beginner's guide to the link between Doctor Who and this?

After Queen Victoria met Dr Who (in an episode a few years back) she set up the Torchwood Institute to investigate extra-terrestrial goings-on. It has survived in various forms since then and kind of works alongside UNIT when it wants to.
It has popped up in various Dr Who episodes and then span (spinned?) off into its own series.
Every now and then someone will mention the Doctor but generally he seems to leave them to it.
Captain Jack was the doctor's assistant for quite a long time but I can't remember how he comes to be immortal.

Wikipedia has a summary here

He is immortal because he sort of swallowed the Time Vortex, basically, thanks to Rose. He was exterminated in the final episode of Who Series 1, and came back to life - since then he can't die.

Still doesn't explain how he came to be immortal - what happened?

This clip explains more about how Jack became immortal - and has some rather nice DT/JB moments....

Wow thanks....I didn't know all that. It works pretty well on a stand-alone basis doesn't it.

Did anyone else think the final shot of the "Next Time" had the monster looking a bit elephantine?