Comments on: Torchwood: Children of Earth

By: Carmen

Carmen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:53:10 +0000

Would pay my TV licence purely on the strength of this series. Got rid of Sky just as it finished, I was still blubbing. Very brave I thought, everybody (I mean EVERYBODY) loves Capt Jack in some way or other, to put him in that situation and give him that non-choice, soul destroying, epic brave TV. The paradox now is the same as Cadbury and the drum playing gorilla, nothing will ever come close.

By: Nick H

Nick H — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:34:04 +0000

Doctor Who is/was a children’s show, but it did tackle more grown up themes (Genesis of the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Silurians etc). In many ways, this was Torchwood’s ‘Genesis’ and indeed it’s the other story which might provide the key for the next story if they do it…

By: Jack Kibble-White

Jack Kibble-White — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:38:51 +0000

Hello Martin – just finished watching the fifth episode of Torchwood: Children of Earth and consider my opinion revised. Eps 2 to 5 were really brilliant, and like you, my wife and I were similarly surprised that this was indeed Torchwood. It reminded me in scale and tone of the John Mills’ Quatermass – which is obviously a good thing. In fact, you could almost describe it as a remake. Really excellent stuff, and I hope if they do decide to make another series, they keep to this sort of event format.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:23:27 +0000

Care to revisit your opinion now, after 5 episodes of the best drama on TV, in my opinion, this year?

In fact the most surprising thing was throughout the 5 episodes my wife and I were asking each other “Is this really Torchwood?”…the previous series were mediocre (“forgettable” was my wife’s opinion) but this was adult in the right way – not swearing and shagging, but unremitting bleakness caused by adults being forced to make the “right” choice.

Doctor Who fans have always claimed it to be an adult show (c.f. Genesis of The Daleks)…how does it feel when you see a real adult show?

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:02:49 +0000

You’re concentrating way too hard on the little things like the costumes- which are meant to be campy and overdrawn. It’s a spinoff of a sci-fi kid’s show for goodness sakes! Of course it’s ridiculous, that’s why we love it. It’s the characters that are the best thing about Torchwood- Captain Jack will certainly go down in the history books- and Children of Earth has brought us a host of brilliant new characters (Capaldi and Jack’s Daughter in particular) while continuing to develop more and more layers to the characters we already know. In this amazing mini-series Ianto has really come into his own, and John Barrowman is finally getting to show off some of his amazing acting abilities. Plus the aliens are incredibly creepy :) This is a great show that has only gotten better with the move to BBC1.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:23:26 +0000

Have to say I didn’t think Children of Earth started off too well, but don’t you think it’s got stronger (presuming you continued watching) as the week has gone on? I agree that some of it’s unbelievable in terms of what Lois was able to view, but then isn’t that what the show is all about – I mean we don’t actually have aliens on Earth… do we??

By: Applemask

Applemask — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:19:50 +0000

Now you’re just trying too hard. Criticising it for getting Peter Garibaldibiscuit’s costume right?