Torchwood Catchup

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I have just caught up on Torchwood, not realising that I had missed two episodes. The first episode, "Adrift" concerned a missing person, or missing people actually, but focused on one missing person in particular. It was a touching story, with relevance to the modern "real" world in that people go missing all the time and, many times, the loved ones of the missing person never find out what happened to that person. This episode explored the conflict that exists between finding out the truth and wishing you still had the hope that they would return as they had been, safe and sound instead of finding out the truth and the possible suffering that they may have endured.

It is a story that could have been written for any series, not necessarily just a sci-fi series like Torchwood, but it was interesting to put that extra level of mystery into the equation.

I liked the story, which this time focused mainly on Gwen, but was left feeling short changed that we didn't find out anything about all of the other missing people mentioned and briefly shown.

The next episode, "Fragments" was equally as good but in a different way and more relevant to the series itself. It spotlighted not just one team member but on the histories of all of the team and how they ended up joining Torchwood, except for Gwen whose initiation we witnessed at the beginning of series one.

It was surprising to see the criminal origin of Toshiko, and a brief appearance by UNIT. Owen's back-story explained further why he is so aloof from emotions a lot of the time and is itself chillingly tragic. And Ianto's joining of the team was great, funny and showed his persistance (presumably brought on by his worry for his then Cyberwoman girlfriend who he had rescued from the remains of Torchwood London), and the beginnings of his emotional attachment to Jack. We even got to see the origin of the pterodactyl which is now at home in the Torchwood Cardiff base!

We even got to see more of the history of Jack, from his first encounter with Torchwood, to his joining the team freelance and eventually him taking over the reins. The history of Torchwood is something that I have wanted to see for a while now. And we even got to see the fortune teller who appeared in the previous episode, "Dead Man Walking"and she was still the same age even though hundreds of years had passed between the two appearances. I guess that she will be featured in a future story line.

And the reappearance of a character from earlier in the series, I won't say who, was a bit of a surprise leading into the next episode which I am now going to have to wait for.

I also caught up on my Torchwood Declassified.

Earlier today I had the television on, but wasn't watching it, and as I turned around I realised that I had missed the trailer for the upcoming series of Dr Who. I will now be watching out for that when it is shown again. I believe that the series starts again in May.