Torchwood Redux

[andrewducker]

In conversation with Ed, it suddenly occurred to me that Torchwood is the Who-verse equivalent of Justice League: Antartica. Cardiff is clearly the place you send people who are incapable of working in a team, dealing with complex moral situations or handling anything at all without messing it up terribly.

If they kicked off Season two with an episode which made this all explicit - and used that as a turning point for the characters, then determined to act like decent people and find out what was really going on, I'd actually be tempted to tune back in...

Comments

[draconid.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... so *that's* why I moved to Cardiff!

The other half wants to know if you've ever visted because you've got it spot on! ;)

Ah well, despite all their faults, I still loved the series...

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

With the exception of some missteps in the last episode, that's what they were moving to at the end of this season, IMO. The last episode was all about them forming bonds of trust after no longer trusting each other in the slightest.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

My thought was very much that Torchwood: Cardiff was largely a research team who investigated the rift and gadgets that fell though it, and who calling in the black helicopter/black ops team from Torchwood: London when monsters or similar dangers got loose. Unfortunately, Torchwood: London is now in ruins and so this crew of somewhat eccentric researchers, who are in no way suited for active fieldwork and especially not for monster-hunting are now hunting monsters for a living.

In any case, I liked the season as a whole, but some of the early episodes were pretty darn dubious (4 & 5 were especially bad) and the season finale was the worst thing I've seen on TV for quite a while. However, episodes 8-10 were utterly brilliant (and were among some of the best TV I've seen since the handful of absolute best episodes of Buffy) and 7 & 11-12 were all pretty good (although, 12 would have been significantly improved with a few more attempts at continuity - all you would have needed to say about the magic rift machine was that it was slavaged from Torchwood: London, where it was used to help open the way for the "ghosts".