Gwen and Rhys Cooper saving children from the military
Russell T. Davies has a knack with stories. He’s very good at writing stories that – despite plot holes and cliches – have much emotional impact. I’m sure that with time I’ll look back at this mini-series with a more critical eye to the technicalities of plot, but right now, 10 minutes after the credits rolled, just about all I can say is this: as a father, that was the most difficult finale to watch of any TV show I can remember. Given that the trailers made only a minor impression on me, that’s saying something.
It didn’t matter that the path to the impactful scenes may be out-of-nowhere, predictable, or over-done. There was one scene where I physically flinched twice. And the final twist … predictable, to some extent, but no less impactful.
It’s extremely difficult to talk about it without spoilers.
One thing I can say – they certainly didn’t hold back anything for next season, if there is one. Jack’s indestructability is positively cemented (ha ha… see what I did there? I’m so clever.) There’s no cliffhanger, per se. This could absolutely serve as a finale to the entire show. In fact, the only relevant plot hole I can think of to pull it back for another season is the question of whether the Cardiff rift still exists and is a threat. Everything else is pretty much tied up in a neat bow at the end.
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Torchwood stepped outside of the Dr Who shadow into its own right with this extraordinary five hours of television.
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Jeff says:
July 12th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I actually think that started to happen last season, but this was a much bigger step in that direction. It’s funny though, that they still mentioned The Doctor rather prominently, and that when you think about it, Jack has pretty much become a stand-in for The Doctor at this point. I saw one reviewer put it this way (paraphrasing): Torchwood used to handle the kind of stuff that wasn’t big enough for the Doctor to bother with. This show featured a “Doctor-level event,” though, and The Doctor didn’t show. Good stuff.
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Lee says:
July 12th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
What I thought was interesting is that they did stand on their own and got people like Martha Jones out of the way earlier on (is it a spoiler do you think to mention why she wasn’t there?) then later on they had to mention the Doctor just to acknowledge the fact that we are all there wondering why he hasn’t shown up.
I think it was great that he didn’t arrive to bail them out, that sometimes the Doctor just can’t be in two places at one time (despite the fact that he can… never mind, that’s too hard to think about). It adds a greater responsibility to Torchwood and makes the situation so much more dire. And it was extraordinarily dire too, I love the big reveal in the last episode about ‘why’ and that it’s even more abhorrent.
I too felt that season two was really good, especially those last five or so episodes – no one was safe and things actually happened (which is another reason why I liked this mini series).
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