![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Was this really a Torchwood story? The investigation of disappearances on this scale might be something Torchwood would be dragged into if the police and all the security services had drawn a blank; but the connection of the crimes with the rift seemed a flimsy assumption, unless there has been other evidence that the rift (underused so far) has been widening, and that didn't seem to be clear.
I thought that the tension couldn't be faulted - it was unclear what was stalking the Torchwood team for one thing, and uncertain for some time whether or not the villagers were possessed by aliens or not - but the conclusion seemed an anticlimax. The regulars weren't well treated: we don't know Tosh well enough yet to care that she is jealous of the burgeoning relationship between Gwen and Owen; Ianto is given an awful speech about the way the Torchwood team get high on danger; Jack was little more than a standard action hero. Burn Gorman plays Owen Harper as a medical man playing at being one of The Professionals - he's self-conscious about the way he holds a gun, for one thing - but there's something in the execution of most episodes of the series that is playing against depth of character. (The exceptions are the first three episodes, I think.)
A number of would-be 'shippers have been concentrating on Gwen/Owen from 'Everything Changes' onwards, and tonight their affair has taken off. Poor Rhys; and let's see if Owen develops a bit more from the persona widely described as 'date rapist'. It's the Tosh episode next week, and according to Radio Times Russell T Davies himself is sharing the writing credit with Toby Whithouse. Let's hope for more sparkle and sense of direction.
I thought that the tension couldn't be faulted - it was unclear what was stalking the Torchwood team for one thing, and uncertain for some time whether or not the villagers were possessed by aliens or not - but the conclusion seemed an anticlimax. The regulars weren't well treated: we don't know Tosh well enough yet to care that she is jealous of the burgeoning relationship between Gwen and Owen; Ianto is given an awful speech about the way the Torchwood team get high on danger; Jack was little more than a standard action hero. Burn Gorman plays Owen Harper as a medical man playing at being one of The Professionals - he's self-conscious about the way he holds a gun, for one thing - but there's something in the execution of most episodes of the series that is playing against depth of character. (The exceptions are the first three episodes, I think.)
A number of would-be 'shippers have been concentrating on Gwen/Owen from 'Everything Changes' onwards, and tonight their affair has taken off. Poor Rhys; and let's see if Owen develops a bit more from the persona widely described as 'date rapist'. It's the Tosh episode next week, and according to Radio Times Russell T Davies himself is sharing the writing credit with Toby Whithouse. Let's hope for more sparkle and sense of direction.
Tags: