Torchwood

I thought it was a great series opener, I liked how we saw Jack come back to the team, though I can't help wondering what happened to Torchwood during the year that never was.

The fish monster was a bit strange, but the character of John and his storyline was good.

Like the Doctor Who Christmas special, the best bit was seeing what's coming up Cheesy I'm really looking forward to seeing Martha come into the series, because I liked her in DW S3, and although I know she's coming back for S4, I wish she'd stayed on as his companion.

Oh - and who's Gray?? I got the impression that the hand being held was a child's - Jack's son?

Anyway, very much looking forward to the rest of the series.

So I have been watching Torchwood so I can catch up and all that. Well in episode 8 at the end I ended up in a fit of giggles. "There are lots of things you can do with a stopwatch" and then of course Jack saying to meet him in his office in 10 minutes. So of course my slash fangirlness went straight to looking for Ianto/Jack stuff.

I found these and I love them:

http://kefkas-whore.deviantart.com/art/Ianto-s-stopwatch-44653823
http://claritylore.deviantart.com/art/Jack-Ianto-and-a-Stopwatch-60891930

Well we all know there are tons of photoshopped images of them...did you know there are unphotshopped ones that are even better:

http://reignoffire86.deviantart.com/art/Jack-and-Ianto-snog-74973706

Oh yeah...thats real. Season 2

Oh and http://claritylore.deviantart.com/art/Master-and-Doctor-What-64099716

Who's your Master? Who's your Master? XD

Okay I am done now...I need to hurry, finish Torchwood season 1 and be ready for the next season cause Spike is gonna be in it *squee*.

THIS WAS TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA



The 28 October 2006 Radio Times, in an image of the Torchwood Three headquarters, identified a piece of large coral on Captain Jack Harkness's desk as the beginnings of a TARDIS. John Barrowman, who plays Jack in Torchwood and Doctor Who confirmed that "Jack's growing a TARDIS... It's probably been there for 30 years. I suppose in 500 years he'll be able to begin the carving process".

Apparently most of this is from a shooting script. The chances of it being true are 50/50, depending on the reliability of the source. The only thing we do know for certain - from fangirls witnessing a scene being shot in November that involved JB, James Marsters and a guest actor - is that Jack is stabbed by Gray at some point, during an argument in an isolated area.



Captain John has set bombs all around Cardiff. They explode, but he and Captain Jack are sucked up into a Riftstorm, and deposited in Cardiff, 2000 years in the past. The rest of the team discover that Captain John's bombs have damaged Cardiff's nuclear facilities.

John explains to Jack that he jumped into the Rift because he's under the control of Gray, who has basically turned him into a walking bomb via a wriststrap fused to his skin. At that moment, Gray appears through the Rift. Jack hugs his brother.. who then stabs him, and makes John cuff Jack's wrists and ankles, dig his grave, and bury him. (Just before he starts to fill it in, John throws a ring down into the hole.) Gray's insane, having been tortured by hellish creatures for years, and hates Jack - both for being immortal, and for losing him all those years ago.

He sets John's wriststrap for one trip, and only one... John goes to Cardiff.

Gwen finds him in the Hub, and wants to know where Jack is, and what's all this about a brother, etc... Gray then turns up accompanied by weevils (who only Owen can control as it seems he's still King o' the Weevils).

Not sure of exact order at this point, but Ianto saves John from weevils, then Grey finds John, much to his disappointment (he didn't expect John to want to do the right thing)... then he shoots Tosh. Owen is busy away somewhere trying to stop the nuclear whatsits from going into meltdown.

After shooting Tosh, Gray goes all psycho killer and wants to sit and talk to her as she dies... but he hears noises in the Hub and goes to investigate. Tosh lies dying, but continues what she was doing before she was shot - helping Owen via an intercom type thing. He doesn't know she's dying, but she knows he's going to be killed by the nuclear radiation inside the chamber he's stuck inside. They die together, apart.

Gray goes to investigate the banging he can hear. It's coming from the morgue. He opens a drawer and... it's Jack. John's ring *is* a bleepy thing. [Flashback] It's tracked down by two women from TW circa 1900 - Jack's been down there a long time. They dig him out, and he asks to be put in the morgue so he doesn't meet himself etc. [/Flashback] Jack tries to walk away, Gray starts telling him all about how he'll never forgive him etc. So, er, Jack knocks him out with a stinky hanky.

He goes into the Hub, Gwen and Ianto get hugs and stuff - this is all happening while Tosh and Owen are dying - apparently just as Owen dies, Jack runs in on Tosh, and she dies in his arms. Gwen gets upset.

Jack and John have a goodbye scene - John suggests he kill Gray, but Jack decides to put him on ice too I think - they have a snog, and then John decides to go backpacking round Europe, or something.

Finally - the team are clearing out Tosh and Owen's bit of the office. Packing up their stuff, logging off their PCs - Tosh's PC responds to this by popping up a video!Tosh. She says she realises she must be dead, and that she hopes it wasn't a trivial death. She loves them all, says thank you to Jack, tells Owen he didn't ever realise (but he's not there! argh! *gnashes teeth, wails* )

Final scene is Jack, Gwen and Ianto sitting on the docks.

Omg the scene where Gwen walked in on Ianto and Jack...wow...I almost died laughing...I also was wishing I could have seen that in person...I mean....isn't the weather lovely? XD

I loved the look on Jack's face! It was so comical! And when Jack goes back inot the office and starts to strip, Ianto looked like all his birthdays came at once as he went back in.

I just love that scene sooo much lol. My friend had just texted me as I was watching the scene saying Jack was hot. She happened to be watching it at home, though she is a few episodes behind me since I cheat and watch online. Well anyways I told her about the scene and she got all mad cause she has to wait to see it XD

Captain John Hart is back *squeee* who cares if he wants to tear Jack's world apart....cause he is back lol. Gosh Jack should've just let him join in with his and Ianto's fun...then this would never happen. And omg Gray!!! Yes I can't wait to see him hehe.

Its rumoured that, they'll do a selection of specials like Dr Who just to test the waters to see how people react to the deaths of Tosh and Owen.

BUT i think this may just be a VERY bad rumour. Because Burn, who plays Owen has said in an interview he will be in series 3 although a lot of people are saying it may just be in flash backs i think thats sucky because this is Torchwood not Lost.

I never expected Tosh to have worked for TW for 5 years because she was in 2 episodes of Dr Who but i guess she played another charector, how stupid am i?

And OMG Owen! I was almost in tears when i saw what happened to him!

Ianto - well, atleast now i know where that bloody dinosaur came from

Jack - HA! He got his arse kicked by 2 girls! Bet he loved that! I think im starting to fall out of love with my husband simply because of what he did to Tosh, i mean come on! Why no contact with her mum? Why only allow her to send postcards? THAT SUCKS! Also the look at TW before Tosh and Owne and co sor fo filled in some blanks for me which is cool, i was kinda confused when it said 1,300 or something death earlier lol i was like wtf? Then i realised it was the amount of times he'd been killed.

Capt John - my previous spoiler about the end of series seems to be more and more true i love John and i hope to see him series 3 i just knew he was the one who left TW those lovely lil bombs, and i bet hes joyriding through cardiff in the TW car lmao..

The Face of Boe and he knows what he becomes etc, why did he tell the Dcotor in New Earth that when they meet for a 3rd time he'd reveal his secret about the doctor not being alone? I mean by my calculations by the time they meet for the final time its like their, 4th or 5th meeting. I think he may mean as in their meeting whilst he is the face of boe, but i wish he could of said something like "I am Capt Jack" instead of "You are not Alone." I mean come on, i would have squealed even more to hear him say that....and has anyone noticed in the Capt Jack Harkness epi of the first series of TW that theres a vote Saxon poster on the doors of the hall where Jack and Tosh get trapped in 1941?

Wow...that was sad. A very bleak note to end the series on (bolstered though I think by the very up-beat DW pretty much straight away). I'll admit it. I cried :D It was Tosh's "You're breaking my heart!" line that got me and I was teary eyed for the rest of the episode. I haven't cried at a TV programme since Doomsday.

I thought the actor who played Gray was dreadful, despite having more than a passing resemblance to JB. It was great to see James Marsters back as Captain John - and to find out that he wasn't horrifically evil after all!

There were several plot holes...technological ones as well as ones that are just plain weird. Jack, buried underground for almost 2,000 years? Yet he's physically and emotionally (well, sort of) fine when he's dug up? His clothes haven't disintegrated (darn it, there was a chance for nekkid Jack there that they missed!)

I liked seeing Victorian Torchwood again, though. I also liked that we got an explanation for why Tosh was dealing with the Space Pig from AoL/WWT - it was just cos Owen had a hangover :D

Watching this episode has got me wondering about Weevils again. Where are they from? Why do they all wear boiler suits? How are there so many of them in the city yet they're not seen all that often? I'm also kind of fed up of them, to be honest. I hope they're not used so much next series.

Overall, this has been a good series of Torchwood - better than good, in fact. The only episode that I really disliked was the one where Owen spent most of his time up on the roof; I just found that one incredibly boring. Also, I'm intrigued as to how Jack's going to come into this series of Doctor Who - if it's not too long after Exit Wounds took place then he's going to be a bit emotionally shook up. We'll see.

That line made me cry too! I never cry over stuff normally.

I didn't much like the actor who played Gray. But I was so sad that Jack had to do that to him. I mean yeah he isn't dead, but still! Actually I almost think it would have been better to save Gray from suffering by killing him, even if it would be really sad.

A nekkid Jack would have but great

I hope there is a new season....I mean it won't be this same without Owen and Tosh, but I do love my Jack and Ianto. *wishes Gwen had died instead of the other two*

Let the conspiracy talk begin! We didn't see Owen's death. We didn't see his body. Who's to say he's actually dead? Especially considering he was already dead anyway.

Naoko Mori did an interview with Digital Spy talking about Tosh's death and that seems pretty final, although she says she would return if there was a good reason for it - anyone think we might be seeing the resurrection glove again? :D

I'm personally hoping that they'll bring Martha back as a full time member of the team next series. She's known to the team from her cameo this series, she's a doctor, she knows about aliens and the Torchwood team are now short of a Doctor. It'd be great, IMO, especially because apart from the first episode she was in this time, she had a pretty much redundant role.

At the end of this series of Doctor Who, Jack is seen walking off with Mickey and Martha. A computer expert and a doctor...and which characters need replacing?

I for one would love to see this :D

Series three of Torchwood will be like series five of Doctor Who - just a small number of specials. I hope not, but i can see why they may choose this path, Tosh and Owen were HUGe charectors and bringing in Martha and Mickey well its a big gamble, if i didnt love Jack Ianto and Gwen so much i'd simply refuse to watch Torchwood should the 2 Ms join. Also i didnt like Martha when she was in Torchwood, i think its because of her new charector kinda thing she's not trainging to be a Doctor anymore and is instead working for UNIT who i just dont like after what they did to Tosh! And ive still not forgiven Jack for what he did as well.

Ive also heard that Burn who plays Owen has said he'll be in series three, it'll be interesting to see because as we know Owen was already dead, we dont know what the radiation will do to his body, maybe it will just deform him slightly and he will come walking into Torchwood and be like "what?"

personally i hope its all lies, since i cried like a baby at the end of Torchwood even though i knew what was going to happen.

Oh and the whole Mickey thing, it makes me wonder what on earth happens to Rose to make Mickey leave her again, he only left her the last time to be in the other dimension where he was needed, and he knew she'd never love him the way she loved the Doctor and the Doctor was still around, without the doctor well Rose and Mickey would have worked together in the other dimensions torchwood sooooooooo it makes me wonder what the out come of Doctor who will be.

Yeah, someone on PFW posted the following this morning with regards to Torchwood:

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1. The season will be featuring Martha again.

2. The season will be a shorter one-arc story. Maybe as short as 5 episodes.

3. Captain John Hart will be back.

I can see mixed reactions if Mickey and Martha join the team...I personally really like both characters, so I'd like to see it happen.

I wouldn't mind if Martha joined Torchwood. Mickey though, ehh. Never was too big on him.

I hope Torchwood S3 isnt too bad...I mean with Tash and Owen dying I am worried.

from digital spy:

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Hey guys,

I attended a convention with Doctor Who, Buffy and Heroes guests today and met James Marsters.

He told me that he filmed his last scenes on the finale of Torchwood season 2 and has been asked back for season 3!!!

He also said he cannot wait to go back as its an awesome show.

Just thought id let you all know!

Sam
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