Torchwood: Series 1-4 [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

I'd forgotten how dark some of the scene were in Torchwood, it was a good few days winding back the clock and watching again after years. The scene where Jack and Ianto are shagging ........ how would you forget that!?

Torchwood is brilliant and a real must watch if you are a doctor who fan! It starts off with jack lost after the doctor abandoned him back in series 1 of Doctor. He then travels back in time via his vortex manipulator but it burns out, he is eventually hired by torchwood, gets paid finds a purpose in life again. He already finds out his immortal but is left wondering why which is explained when he finds the doctor again. There's too much to talk about but it leads into doctor who well and the continuity is kept in check till the final as of this writing, American series 4 where it all goes a bit weird.Torchwood series 1-2 are about the team in the 21st century where everything changes and you've gotta be ready. It deals heavily with alien of the week invasions and jacks past, future and present.Series 3 is s brilliant mini series about an alien invasion and a world without the doctor. Jack has to kinda step in the doctors shoes and save the earth by any means necessary. It gets pretty dark pretty fast but doesn't suffer from being dragged out like series 4 does. It's 5 days of hell for the team and the prof of earth. Children are being abducted by the uk government to send to the 456 as payment for past dealings relating to captain jack harkness. In order for the UK government to keep their dealings secret, they went after the commander officers back then including jack but as we all know, he doesn't die. Gwen questions the doctors absence after briefly talking with him and everything seems lost till jack sacrifices one of his own family which leads him into disownment from his daughter. Jack then leaves the earth, leaving the only surviving torchwood member alive, gwen. A lot of people say this is where the series should of ended. I don't necessary agree but everyone has their own views.Series 4 goes a bit south. The CIA is involved, Jack returns to Earth and gwen comes out of hiding after a couple of years. It's a transatlantic serial where everyone on earth apart from animals, insects etc is immortal. It's too focused on America and not enough Cardiff/UK. Torchwood is extradited after the 456 incident by CIA Rex Matheson who takes great pleasure in bagging the infamous torchwood members. The story goes on with too much filler, action scenes which would make Michael bay proud and the source of the event which turns out to be a rock like open gap rubbing through the centre of the earths through Shanghai to Buenos Aires which is being strained by keeping everyone alive. It's eventually destroyed by jacks mortal blood even though he was a fixed point in time? Through Rex getting transfused it and Jack and him pulling their blood through the hole, destroying the family's plan of world domination. They later attend the funeral of Esther who was killed by the cousin, one of the family members who Rex threw to his death for killing Esther Drummond. They are coming out, a CIA mole is discovered after software is uploaded from the destroyed CIA building and Rex is shot dead, everyone thinks he's dead till he resurrects in the same fashion as Jack does everytime he dies. The famous What? Line from doctor who is muttered and Jack, gwen and Rhys are left looking shocked. This end scene hints to a cliffhanger and Plan B which is the family's second plan should the miracle day event get reversed. Russell never continued it due to his husbands health and it's been off the air since 2011.Torchwood still survives through the cast, crew and audio plays that are regularly released. I have hopes for its return soon and it would be 2018 that would be a great year for its release mainly because Chris Chibnall is taking over Doctor Who from Steven Moffat as he wrote for torchwood and I assume would rally for its return too. Series 5 will come, the show is not cancelled just in limbo waiting for the right time to return. Series 4 had no continuity to doctor who since Moffat took over from Russell t Davies and so plot holes were left to seep through as all three shows share the same universe. Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures which was cancelled due to Elizabeth Sladens death. Amy and Rory, the eleventh doctors companions at the time of 2011, were on earth mutiple times through the events of miracle day and no mention to the events are made in screen which is a shame.

I did not watch Torchwood when it was originally broadcast so thought I would give it a try. It is based around the characters of Captain Jack and ex-PC Gwen. I always found the captain jack character irritating so my expectations were not specially high. Series 1 & 2 are set in Cardiff as a temporal rift there keeps attracting alien bits and bobs to the place. The Welsh setting is quite fun.The first series is quite uneven with some good episodes and some ....others. Series two is a bit better but the whole thing hits the mark in the 5 episode series 3 - 'Children of Earth'. This has a single story arc throughout. Series 4 is a US cable-channel/BBC co-production and is OK I suppose but loses the flavour of the original.The emphasis on sex of all sorts gets a bit tiresome. I feel as though I am being preached at in a sort anti-particle to the Welsh methodist tradition.Overall - quite fun in parts with Series 3 being the highlight. Recommended if you like Doctor Who and have not seen this post-watershed spin-off.

This series is ideal for someone who likes sci-fi like Doctor Who but who wants something a bit more mature, a bit grittier and a bit more realistic.Seasons 1 & 2 are of the 'One Case Per Episode' format with the occasional two parter. The five main cast members: Jack, Gwen, Tosh, Owen and Ianto battle everything from alien invasions to a spate of mysterious killings which turns out to be the work of cannibals and not aliens at all.Seasons 3 & 4 are both one big plot line divided up into hour long episodes.My only criticism of this show is that they seem to kill of central characters at an alarming rate. If it's down to actors deciding to leave the show then obviously they can't do much about that but if it's down to the script then I think it's a bit severe.Season 1 has no deaths whatsoever whereas season 2 sees half of the cast eliminated in one foul swoop.Season 3 sees one of they few remaining team members die for no real reason - the death doesn't really contribute to the plot.Season 4 sees Torchwood team up with another agency most likely because they seem to have run out of manpower. Again though, several of the most likeable and undeserving characters are killed.In short, Torchwood is Doctor Who with guns, blood, alien autopsies, sex, swearing and scary realism.Definitely recommended.