Torchwood Series 1 Discussion Thread

[pokemon_master]

Hey guys! Torchwood; the Doctor Who Spin-off staring everyone's favorite Cap'n Jack (Not Johnny Depp but another John.. ) has been finally confirmed for the 22nd of October. Hence why I took the Opportunity to start up the Torchwood Discussion Thread!

Once again, The Master (Me), Emporer Dalek (Andrew Derek UK), Leela (ArielJasmine) and of course you guys will be here week after week to talk about all things Torchwood (and maybe a little Doctor Who thrown in here or there) and will hopefully bring you guys lots of topics to discuss just like we did for Doctor Who Series 2.

Torchwood hopes to be far more adult than Doctor Who, with thrills, chills, scares and a nudey scene or two here or there. We can hopefully keep it clean on this thread, right guys...

I will hopefully try to find an episode guide again, in the meantime keep watching this thread for updates. In the meantime, you guys can have fun on the Torchwood Website. It has lots on it, including an small interview with Russell T Davies.

Hoping we can get as popular as we were last time!

The Master (Muhaha....)

 

[magicgirl]

I am so looking forward to it. I have been a Doctor Who fan since the very early days, even if I spent most of the time watching from behind the sofa.

 

[pokemon_master]

To keep you guys busy have a guess who said the following (And what ep if your REALLY that into it.. )

"One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."

(It's on my Signiture too.. )

 

[florida sun]

To keep you guys busy have a guess who said the following (And what ep if your REALLY that into it.. )

"One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."

(It's on my Signiture too.. )

Was that William Hartnell as Dr Who in The Dalek Invasion of Earth Matt??.

Looking forward to Torchwood

 

[pokemon_master]

Was that William Hartnell as Dr Who in The Dalek Invasion of Earth Matt??.

Looking forward to Torchwood

Yup, that was Sue! I'm quite surpised you knew that...

 

[florida sun]

Yup, that was Sue! I'm quite surpised you knew that...

Full of surprises me!!!

 

[Cyrano]

Captain Jack's inclusion in this programme has definitely sparked the interest of the troops who all enjoy Dr Who

 

[Spook]

I never really got into the 'new' Dr Who but am really looking forward to this

Jan

 

[florida sun]

Captain Jack's inclusion in this programme has definitely sparked the interest of the troops who all enjoy Dr Who

Dont know about the troops Reid, but Captain Jack definitley sparked my intrest in this

 

[Spook]

Dont know about the troops Reid, but Captain Jack definitley sparked my intrest in this

I with you on this Sue

Jan

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

''Once again, The Master (Me), Emporer Dalek (Andrew_Derek_UK), Leela (ArielJasmine) and of course you guys will be here week after week to talk about all things Torchwood '' You must have been to Torchwood to read my mind!

Add, I understand after starting on BBC3, it will have a ''very quick'' repeat on BBC1, Captain jack might be in the last Doctor Who of Series 3, possible programme crossover?

One site posted it will be on BBC1 on Saturday nights post 9pm, maybe in the slot after Casualty? currently filled with repeats of Vicar of Dibley?

Did I see a Cyberman at the end of the trailer??? again a crossover form the last Doctor who at Torchwood, showing why they move from Canary Wharf to Cardiff? and Captain jack taking over from Dens wife? now a female Cyber?

 

[arieljasmine]

Woo-hoo, Torchwood is almost here!!

Thanks for starting up the thread, Master, and for name checking me!

I am totally excited about this, sounds like it is going to be great and pretty different to DW.

Love the quote, Master.

Leela

 

[pokemon_master]

Add, I understand after starting on BBC3, it will have a ''very quick'' repeat on BBC1, Captain jack might be in the last Doctor Who of Series 3, possible programme crossover?

One site posted it will be on BBC1 on Saturday nights post 9pm, maybe in the slot after Casualty? currently filled with repeats of Vicar of Dibley?

As far as I know it should be on BBC 3 past Watershead, so my guess is that it's on at 9.00. I haven't heard anything about it on BBC1 at all, but I think it's open to possibility; I know people without BBC Three who'd love to watch Torchwood.

Did I see a Cyberman at the end of the trailer??? again a crossover form the last Doctor who at Torchwood, showing why they move from Canary Wharf to Cardiff? and Captain jack taking over from Dens wife? now a female Cyber

Yup, that was a Cyberman (possibly Cyberwomen). I wonder myself how Cybers get into the Cardiff Torchwood; most likely from Canary Wharf's Torchwood. That then brings the question of how they got there...

I think that a Crossover would be so cool; I could just imagine the Doctor and Martha meeting Cap'n Jack and Gwen at the millenium centre in Cardiff..

 

[pokemon_master]

Just to mention guys, I have found 1/2 an episode of torchwood. I will edit this post to show it as and when I can..

 

[wickesy]

Digiguide is showing the following listings:

DRAMA: Torchwood
On: BBC 3 (115)
Date: Sunday 22nd October 2006 (starting in 8 days)
Time: 21:00 to 22:40 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Everything Changes and Day One.
Episodes 1 and 2 of this new drama series. A brutal murder leads WPC Gwen Cooper to Torchwood, a journey that will change her life forever. Plus, Torchwood must stop a sex addicted alien as it leaves a trail of gruesome deaths in its wake.
(Subtitles, Audio Described)

Starring: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman

Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=7197

Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.

DRAMA: Torchwood
On: BBC 2 (102)
Date: Wednesday 25th October 2006 (starting in 11 days)
Time: 21:00 to 22:40 (1 hour and 40 minutes long)

Everything Changes and Day One.
Brian Kelly Episodes 1 and 2 of this new drama series.
Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=7197

Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.

So it looks like repeats will be Wednesday nights on BBC2.

 

[pokemon_master]

Thanks for the above Wickesy. Unfortunately, the idea of getting an episode guide fizzled out; most of it is hush hush at the moment and I haven't found anything on it..

This time, I'll have to let things be a surpise..

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Radio Times now confirms BBC2 as the repeat, on Wednesday 25th at 9pm, not BBC1 on Saturdays as I had read.

CARE SPOLERS, this is from another site............



EPISODE 1: 'Everything Changes' by Russell T Davies
When Torchwood arrives on the scene of a brutal murder, WPC Gwen Cooper's burning curiosity is challenged. Their attitude, their approach and their technology is at odds with everything she believes in. But investigating the investigators leads her into a dark, paranoid world she never imagined existed.

EPISODE 2: 'Day One' by Chris Chibnall
An alien addicted to sex is let loose on Cardiff's nightlife. Torchwood must track down the creature's new host and in doing so, confront a violent new form of love in the 21st century.

EPISODE 3: 'Ghost Machine' by Helen Raynor
Torchwood discovers a machine that allows them to view the ghosts that walk among us. Using it, prompts Owen to investigate an unsolved crime - one that could change all their futures.

EPISODE 4: 'The Trouble With Lisa' by Chris Chibnall
There's a dark secret in the basement of the Hub. Even Jack is unaware of it, but Ianto knows. And he'll go to any lengths, sacrifice anything and anyone, to protect what's down there.

EPISODE 5: 'Small Worlds' by Peter J. Hammond
Jasmine is a withdrawn but intelligent child whose new 'friends' exploit her suppressed anger, and while investigating this, Jack encounters elemental enemies from his past that are determined to harm those closest to him.

EPISODE 6: 'Countrycide' by Chris Chibnall
Upon entering an apparently deserted village in the Brecon Becons, the Torchwood team is separated. Finding his people are the prey in a savage game of cat and mouse Jack faces a team of ruthless hunters far more skilled in surviving outside the confines of the city than he.

EPISODE 7: 'Greeks Bearing Gifts' by Toby Whithouse
Tosh gains the ability to read the minds of those closest to her but as she becomes party to their darkest secrets, she realises not only is this is a powerful curse, but one impossible to break.

EPISODE 8: 'They Keep Killing' by Paul Tomalin & Dan McCulloch
Using alien technology to interrogate the victims of a serial killer, Gwen learns that the common link is dangerously close to home. And the resurrection device has a deadly secret of its own.

EPISODE 9: 'Invisible Eugene' by Jacquetta May
A hit-and-run victim, Eugene, was a bit of a nobody, and always convinced that aliens were coming to Earth, specifically to retrieve technology in his possession. Now Gwen finds herself drawn into his world and realises Eugene may still be helping her locate the 'aliens' - despite him being dead.

EPISODE 10: 'Combat' by Noel Clarke
The team discovers a ring who are kidnapping Weevils - wild alien creatures that have come through the Rift and are hiding on Earth - which leads Owen down a dark path to confront the future of his own existence.

EPISODE 11: 'Out of Time' by Cath Tregenna
A small passenger plane from the 1950's flies through the rift and lands in Cardiff 2006. Torchwood is drawn into strong personal relationships as they help the three temporal immigrants adapt to contemporary life.

EPISODE 12: 'Captain Jack Harkness' by Cath Tregenna
Transported back to the Blitz, Jack and Tosh find themselves facing a dark secret from Jack's past, one he hoped and believed had been buried for good.

EPISODE 13: 'Apocalypse' by Chris Chibnall
The Rift is violently fracturing further, and Jack realises that Torchwood is destined to be drawn into one vast battle that will leave nothing and no one at Torchwood unchanged...

 

[pokemon_master]

Thanks Emporer Dalek; I was struggling to find an episode guide on the internet..

 

[pokemon_master]

Doctor Who News Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/10/16/36984.shtml

Blue Peter are offering the chance to win a part in Doctor Who and I'm too old to enter!!!!

Defintely getting My Cousins/Sister to enter though!!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Great Torchwood spread in the Radio times this week, including a picture of inside Torchwoods HQ under the fountain in Cardiff, part of it has an underground station that linked London Cardiff and Glasgow for Torchwood in the past, and also in a jar is Doctor Whos Hand, cut off last Christmas.

They have weapons Cyber guns etc, to use to fight aliens, and they can go up to ground level on a stone lift, and no one can see them until they step off it!

Notice anything about EPISODE 13: 'Apocalypse'
A Rift is violently fracturing further,
Jack realises that Torchwood is destined to be drawn into one vast ''battle'' that will leave nothing and no one at Torchwood unchanged...

Recent Doctor who Episode 13 Cybers and Daleks coming out of a rift to do battle with Torchwood in the middle and it left nothing unchanged!

Pararell worlds and also Episodes??? Then jack is in the last of next years DW?

Does this mean Jack has to call the Doctor to help him???