WE ARE COMING (TO TAKE YOU AWAY) (HA HA) - Spoiler alert
I've been riveted to the screen at 10 p.m. every night this week by Torchwood, to which I must admit I was impervious up to now. As usual, I have managed to catch up with the bus just before it reaches the terminus. Russell T. Davies is a genius. Not only did he turn around Doctor Who and make it cult viewing, but he has devised a spin-off which stands up on its own merits and can knock many other Sci-Fi series into a black hole.
I was only watching with one eye until the end of Monday's episode, which ended on a bombshell - Captain Jack Harkness grabbing Welshman Ianto Jones for a goodbye snog. This was something new and unexpected. (I should point out at this juncture that I didn't start watching Dr Who until David Tennant took over so missed the earlier demonstration of Captain Jack's ambidextrousness). I was totally hooked from that moment on. Every episode has been packed with twists, turns, references to previous episodes (luckily an earlier series is running on Sci Fi channel at a different time, so I'm trying to catch up in the margins), and the quirky sort of humour we have been enjoying from the new improved Doctor Who, and each episode has ended on a cliffhanger that leaves you panting for the next episode. If this was going out weekly I would be climbing the walls. I had to record last night's final episode and won't have time to watch it till tomorrow, SO DON'T TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS, RIGHT?
The big vomity alien, known to his friends as the 456, announces its arrival through the voices of all the world's children, who all start chanting "We are coming" in unison, in a scary way. Then they all announce "We are coming tomorrow". The next day they all chant "We are here". It transpires that "we" have been to earth before. Remember "We are a grandmother"?
She had a deep voice, and spent a lot of time hanging around MI5
BVA wants to kidnap 10% of the world's children for purposes unknown, and the British politicians are hatching a plot to bottom-feed from the sink estates and failing schools and thereby get rid of the next generation of the underclass as well as ensuring their own little darlings are safe. Torchwood have pledged to fight, which is really a bit daft, as BVA has promised to wipe out the human race if he doesn't get what he wants. I would have offered them Northamptonshire. I mean, who would miss that? I would also throw in all News International journos (Rebekah Wade first), the Taliban, bankers, hedge fund traders and Boris Johnson, the Isle of Sheppey, San Marino, the Belgian trade unions, the entire European Parliament, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Any other suggestions for the 456 appeasement package?
I shall be away in the country (I'm not saying which country) next weekend and the weekend after that, without internet access, so see you when I get back.
P.S. After assiduous research on YouTube, I have finally located the famous World War II episode which tells us all we need to know about Captain Jack Harkness.
I was only watching with one eye until the end of Monday's episode, which ended on a bombshell - Captain Jack Harkness grabbing Welshman Ianto Jones for a goodbye snog. This was something new and unexpected. (I should point out at this juncture that I didn't start watching Dr Who until David Tennant took over so missed the earlier demonstration of Captain Jack's ambidextrousness). I was totally hooked from that moment on. Every episode has been packed with twists, turns, references to previous episodes (luckily an earlier series is running on Sci Fi channel at a different time, so I'm trying to catch up in the margins), and the quirky sort of humour we have been enjoying from the new improved Doctor Who, and each episode has ended on a cliffhanger that leaves you panting for the next episode. If this was going out weekly I would be climbing the walls. I had to record last night's final episode and won't have time to watch it till tomorrow, SO DON'T TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS, RIGHT?
The big vomity alien, known to his friends as the 456, announces its arrival through the voices of all the world's children, who all start chanting "We are coming" in unison, in a scary way. Then they all announce "We are coming tomorrow". The next day they all chant "We are here". It transpires that "we" have been to earth before. Remember "We are a grandmother"?
She had a deep voice, and spent a lot of time hanging around MI5I shall be away in the country (I'm not saying which country) next weekend and the weekend after that, without internet access, so see you when I get back.
P.S. After assiduous research on YouTube, I have finally located the famous World War II episode which tells us all we need to know about Captain Jack Harkness.
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The Iron Lady would have taken on those aliens and given them what for. You knew where you were with her, even if it was in the crapper. And I can guess where you will be, milady.
Northamptonshire... Rushden, Raunds, Bozeat and Wollaston. I've spent many a long hour there working the roads in my youth.
There are only so many sheep one can count of a neet.
Have a good trip. I'm guessing north of the border.
Have a fabulous time. I was glued to Torchwood mostly because DeFarge Towers (London branch) is close to Thames House and I kept seeing my flat. To say that I was excited is an understatement.
like you, i'm late to the torchwood bus, sugar! i have to admit the ads for this coming season certainly hooked me! xoxox
I would like to see that awful Max Mosley given to the 456 person to play with. He has given a little harmless spanking such a terrible image, not least because I cannot see why the devotees need to dress down for the occasion - one should always be smartly dressed, especially in front of the hired staff.
GB, if she dealt with the 456 like she dealt with the IRA I think it would have been curtains for all of us. She was not exactly a proponent of thinking outside the box. Mandelson's the man you need for something as slippery as 456.
Jimmy, I would have thought you would have felt right at home in Corby, the only Scottish town in England.
Pat, I will be going to the land of the kilt a bit later during the Festival. Date with Arthur, doncha know!
Mme D, I know where you live, to paraphrase P.Mandelson. Has to be the safest place in London with neighbours like that! I still don't understand how the makers of Torchwood got permission to film the building from all angles, including from above. Either the spooks are relaxing a bit, or there are a lot of Torchwood fans in that building!
Savannah, don't miss it - I think it starts around 20 July on BBC America.
Camilla - welcome my dear! Max Mosley? Oh, I rather like him. He has certainly faced down those ghastly tabloid editors. He can hardly wear full Wehrmacht uniform for a court case, can he? And 456 is hardly a model of sartorial elegance himself. Itself. Max would be happier with the lady in the Bruno movie.
I was waddling after the bus behind even you Daffers, watching Torchwood for the first time yesterday and subsequently watching the whole 5 episodes back to back.
I loved it but there was more than a hint of the themes from Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials
there you go, 'genius steals' as somebody or other once said.
Lulu, Philip Pullman is cool with it, apparently. There was a bit that reminded me of Schindler's List, too. Oh, and wasn't Peter Capaldi superb as John Frobisher? I cried in the last episode.
As usual, Sci-Fi is a closed book to me - yes, even Dr. Who, I'm sorry - so I'm imagining Torchwood is an Outer Space version of Djuna's Barnes' Nightwood. But I could be wrong.
And where is that closing clip from - it's beyond outrageous!
Gadj, if you find that clip outrageous, go and see "Bruno". Or maybe don't. The clip is Al Murray (aka "The Pub Landlord") in an untypical role. I think John Barrowman is just being himself. Like you, he got married in a kilt. Unlike you, it was to a man.
Torchwood was too damp to light up any interest in me.
Bruno was outrageously mad.
Have a good break.
Strewth, I always had the impression Al Murray was obsessed with the 2nd World War, but this is beyond the call of duty!! He pulls it off remarkably well though, if you know what I mean.
There's nothing remotely camp about being married in a kilt, unless your family's tarten's colours happen to be fushia and crushed strawberry :-)
Even though I was on holiday, I ended up watching flipping Torchwood! Fab!
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Oh... and happy holidays!
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Oh dammit do I have to watch it?
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