HAHA, PROOF! THAT UGLY BLIGHTER IS ME, DON'T YA KNOW?
Here's a quick preview of what to expect. It's pretty light on SPOILERS, but if you want to go into the episode not wanting to know anything at all, I suggest you look away now.
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1: PC Andy Davidson takes off some clothes...
2: Not only is Captain Jack immortal - a certain well known accessory of his is, too...
3: It's all to do with getting high...
4: Abortion becomes an option...
5: "The Government has sold us out..."
6: Jack's Ret-Con is namechecked (and also, kinda blamed).
7: "They've got kids. Ianto's niece and nephew... Save them"
8: Mr. Frobisher makes an important decision. It's the only option left...
9: Rhys threatens to hit one of the other men in Gwen's life...
10: One cast member's name doesn't feature in the episode's credits - for the very first time since the series started back in 2006.
As for the episode's ending... well, put it this way I'm not too sure what form a fourth series of the show would take. I'm taking the ending as more of a cliffhanger than a definite ending, however. A little bit like how series one ended the story very specifically, but left enough room for series two, and beyond.
More on the episode after it goes out tonight.
Torchwood: Children of Earth - Day Five airs 9pm, BBC One.
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32 comments:
#10= :(
Does not make me think what I want to happen is going to happen!
I am very sad.
(trying not to spoil and still be understood at the same time) :)
lisa
Makes me think what I want to happen is not going to happen.
THAT is what I was trying to say!
lisa
Not only is Captain Jack immoral? or immortal?
The only well-known accessories of his I can think of are:
His wrist band,
His coat,
Ianto
Hmmmm
Anonymous, you've seen he has a new coat already, so it would be pretty redundant to re-introduce the old one again...
One final clue for those that want it:
11: You'll more than likely *hate* one member of the Torchwood team by the end of tonight's episode. If not *hate* you certainly won't ever look at them in quite the same way ever again...
T'is all I'm saying.
You are a big tease!
Sorry about posting anonymous with the question about immoral versus immortal, but I didn't feel like going through all the signing up of a Google account. So until then .....
Signed,
Phaedra4real
yes i dislike Jack a bit more, not that he sacrificed the child it was the only thing which could be done at the time.. but because he "ran away" like a coward at the end grrrrr i felt like slapping him.
HAS TORCHWOOD FINISHED - OH PLEASE NOOOOOOO -BBC PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!
i was shocked at the fact that jack used his grandson and the fact that he ran away from everything at the end.
You're not the only one. Really annoyed about those two things too.
And me - his Grandson for goodness sake!
Even the politicians were trying to save their own children ( and their own skins of course) nothing controversial there then! ;-)
Ok, I'm spoiled, I'll admit. Can we talk about 5 here?
What the hell does #2 mean:
2: Not only is Captain Jack immortal - a certain well known accessory of his is, too...
Can someone please tell me. Or email me at phaedra4real@yahoo.com. Thank you.
I just sent the following complaint to the beeb...
What kind of message was the final episode of Torchwood supposed to send to viewers? Are you suggesting that there could possibly be a case where for the common good it is acceptable to tear an innocent child away from his desperate mother and brutally kill him in front of her? I personally find the very idea to be repugnant even when set within a poorly conceived science fiction drama. There was no excuse for filming such a cynical and emotionally manipulative scene, and to have the hero carrying out the dubious act was a cheap shot which made me feel sick.
Yeh, I was p****d off
Hmm. I was never Jack's biggest fan anyway, so I'm not actually that upset by what he did at the end of Day Five.
I do hope that if Torchwood continues, Gwen has managed to put together a team while Jack is away. Clearly, Cardiff's rift activity won't just stop while Jack's away and Gwen's pregnant, so I do hope she's managed to make a team. Lois and Johnson seem like they'd be pretty good for the job, or just some randoms. The last thing I want is for Jack to appear for series 4 and for Gwen to have been moping around...
Anyway, loved Children of Earth. It's nice to see Torchwood mature into the kind of programme it promised to be from the beginning. :)
I do hope gwen does rebuild the hub and continue torchwoods work, I'd love it if Louis was made part of the team
gwen is preggers will she rebuild the hub knowing the dangers that can happen now she has a family? ...
Jack'll be back... It's obviously just setting up Jack to be around to help DT in the Two Part Christmas Special, be around for the regeneration. Either version of the Doc will say something profound and Jack'll be back just in time to help with Series 4...
Now someone go put that on Digital Spy and stop them whining...
Damn you're cute.
Uh sorry. This ended in no way like S1. I didnt feel a cliffhanger coming, I didnt feel there would be TW4 either. Dr Who with possible jack showing up? Yeah maybe. But TW feels dead.
i just wonder WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE PTERODACTYL THEY HAD IN THE HUB. i hope it's ok.....
Perhaps for Torchwood 4, Gwen will have put a new team together, with Rhys and Lois ... and Alice! And Jack, instead of being able to join, will be Public Enemy no.1!
*SPOILER ALERT*
How do you respond to that kind of an ending episode. I think that since RTD already said that a series 4 is ready to go, written and all of that, it's clear they have some sort of plan...and I really love the idea of how Jack would appear in the Doctor Who special and I really really really want that to be an opportunity to bring Ianto back. That would be the only reason I'd tune in to series 4, I know, I'm one of the Jack/Ianto freaks, sorry.
I think though that the ending to this one is much more final than that of the other two series', and it makes sense when they didn't know if there'd be a series 4.
Please bring Ianto back! And if you could, bring Steven back too, but really, PLEASE bring Ianto back!!!
I would say the ending can be be taken two ways and if they decided that there isn't going to be any more Torchwood then we have a rather good ending for the show that seems right, but on the other hand it is rather similar to the end of the first series where we saw Jack leave. I rather hope there will be another series but if it is not to be then I am happy with the ending at it stands.
There is a report online from a preview screening of day one last month. In the Q&A after the showing RTD said if this five nighter is rated well then series 4 is ready to go and written...
This has been one of the most intense stories I have ever seen.
It blows my mind that it went to such dark places. I think it works. I think it was absolutely brilliant.
I would have felt cheated if the situation were resolved any other way.
It's very hard to imagine where a 4th series would pick up and go, but, if I recall, there were naysayers regarding how a five episode mini-series could work. I have faith that 'Torchwood' will be back. I have faith that it'll be bigger and better than ever.
Now I have to just sit and digest what I just spent a week watching.
Ant you lucky so-and-so! I had work so I had to wait till about 11pm to watch the eppy. By far the most traumatic hour of my life... I don't hate Jack, but I do hate what he had to do :( That poor boy...
As for shooting up on children, by far the most bonechilling scene in television history. Though I fear they could have gone down a much darker route the way they were going, and I'm glad they didn't. Ofcom's going to be up in arms as it is.
Considering the themes of the show it had to end with some sacrifice, particularly after Jack shared his philosophy when he and Ianto came face to face with The 456.
What bigger sacrifice could somebody make than family? I agree the "running away" scene seemed like it could have been written a bit better. I would call it a hermitage where a grieving/shocked person needs to take a break from it all.
But love Jack or hate him regarding the decision he made, it does make for one hell of a watercooler discussion. How often does a TV show get you thinking about the trade-offs you would be willing to make?
Empathy can be overrated, particularly in a job like Jack's. Humans seem to have an impossible time separating their emotions out when they have to make difficult decisions. There are some decisions which shouldn't be colored by emotions and call for you to be an outright jackass. Now is that evil? or just human? That is an amazing question for a primetime TV show to ask.
Bravo RTD, Julie and all the other writers for Children of Earth. I am looking forward to season 4.
on another topic did anyone else notice Nic Brigs who does the dalek and cyberman voices around the table with the prime minister when they were deciding what to do with the 456 demands???
i loved it but i am really anoyed at the beeb as they can do that to us. come on bring on series 4 and FIND A WAY OF BRINGING BACK IANTO pleeeeeeese. its a perfect 4 and Jack and Ianto are perfect :-(
Y Y Y Y Y did he kill his grandson there was no point could ov got a kid from any where!!!!!!!
So it was not just a moment of blindness when I didn't see Gareth's names. I demand explanation on this.
Complaining to the BBC?
This isn't Aesop's fables! The bbc isn't trying to influence our morality through its fictional characters, it's a drama series. and the fact it's made us question what's "right and wrong" is more than most television does.
Now that Children of Earth has been shown in it's entirety...
Could it be possible that we could see perhaps co-operation from other Torchwood's in series 4? Torchwood One (Canary Wharf) is gone, this much we know. Cardiff appears all but destroyed - I seem to remember a reference in the first series to the existence of a Torchwood Glasgow... Could it be that production for Series 4 will be based in Scotland next time?
I can't wait to find out!
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