“I was going to be with you forever.”-Donna NobleStarting exactly where the cliffhanger left off, a neon-light show marks the beginning of the Tenth Doctor's regeneration (as a result of the mortal wounds he received at the end of the last episode). During the process, he points the energy at his severed hand in a jar (from season two episode, “The Christmas Invasion” and which has also made appearances in Torchwood season one). The regeneration ends... the Tenth Doctor is still with us -he has not regenerated, instead transferring the energy from his third hand to heal himself! Donna, Capt. Jack and Rose are dumbfounded by this (more so Jack and Rose). Finally, Rose and the Doctor have their proper reunion, which of course is cut short as the Dalek capture the TARDIS and transfer it to the Crucible, the Dalek's baseship. Rose recounts the events in her universe and how her world was able to build a dimensional canon to teleport Rose. She also mentions that all t...
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“Death is coming... everlasting death for the most faithful companion.”-Dalek CaanAfter the “bad wolf” revelation in the previous episode, the Doctor/Donna immediately return to Earth only to find that everything is it should be. The pair re-enters the TARDIS and while inside, there is a massive jolt from the exterior of the ship. Upon opening the door, they only see space -the Earth has been stolen right from under them.Far across the universe: Martha Jones with UNIT in New York; Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones at Torchwood, Cardiff; Sarah Jane Smith, her son, Luke and Mr Smith their computer in London; Wilfred Mott and Sylvia Noble in London; and later, Rose Tyler teleporting to the street where the TARDIS landed in London, are all discombobulated (cept for Rose) over the weird earthquake (literally?). Each one in their respective locations gazes up to see the night sky filled with many strange planets and moons (26 according to the news repo...
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Torchwood courtesy BBC
Tired of all the rumors surrounding Torchwood's future, TVGuide.com went directly to the rift, er, Cardiff, Wales, to learn if the truth was out there. Well, 'Woodies (or Torchies, if you prefer), scripts for Season 3 are currently being developed and filming should start in the middle of August for airing on BBC1 in the spring of 2009. Best news of all, John Barrowman will return as the dashing bi-sexual adventurer. Though keeping more details close to the vest, executive producer Julie Gardner vows that fans "will be pleased with the casting." That better mean Eve Myles is returning! Fans, however, may not be so happy with the mere five hours slated for next season. "We've decided to do a five-part mini-series, one big story that will run during one week," says Gardner, adding, "I wanted to make a really big noise about the show."So far, the BBC has only green lit these five hours, but there could be more, we're told. When (or even whether) BBC America will run the mini-series h...
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Doctor Who - Season 3 courtesy BBC Video
This past November 6th saw the DVD release of Doctor Who - The Complete 3rd Season in North America, culminating in an epic three-part story where The Doctor (David Tennant) had battled, and seemingly lost the Earth to, one of his longest-running enemies.The advance material and the included booklet for the DVD release both said that the season finale, "The Last of the Time Lords", would include a cast commentary track by David Tennant ("The Doctor"), Freema Agyeman ("Martha Jones") and John Barrowman ("Capt. Jack Harkness" of Torchwood). However, that wasn't the commentary track fans found on the release when it arrived! Instead there was a podcast, which had previously been released on the internet, recorded by show producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson.Naturally fans felt upset, especially when it became known that the proper cast commentary had been included in the U.K.'s DVD release of the same episode. Our own Gord Lacey turned to BBC Video for an explan...
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Torchwood: The Complete First Season courtesy BBC Warner
This Doctor Who spin-off debuted on BBC America back in September and quickly garnered the highest ratings in the network's history. Packed with fascinating alien artifacts and adversaries, Torchwood will win over sci fi fans — whether or not they've seen the original Doctor Who episodes that introduced viewers to the secret, beyond-the-law organization. The heart and soul of the show is John Barrowman as the immortal, bisexual Captain Jack Harkness, whose team of scientists and crime fighters get into all sorts of messes but always return to the fold. The 13 original episodes appear on 7 discs, along with an impressive array of bonus material: cast interviews, commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes, etc. Check it out before the next season starts up again on BBCA this weekend! — Nina Hämmerling SmithBuy Torchwood: The Complete First Season on Amazon.com
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Now that was Torchwood at its best — graced with lots of Captain Jack time, a riveting time-rift mystery and, let's not forget, one juicy kiss.The main storyline followed Tosh and Jack, who went off to investigate an apparent haunted house, the Ritz, a derelict dance hall, where people had reported hearing old-timey music. While roving around, they hear the music themselves and are sucked into a time rift, finding themselves in a scene from 1941, of soldiers dancing and local gals doing their part to keep up morale. There they meet a number of eager young fellas, but none as handsome or as intriguing as one Captain Jack Harkness, whom our Captain Jack is instantly drawn to — no surprise there: He was strikingly handsome, with chiseled features, dark hair and expressive eyes. (Sound like anyone else we know?)Our Captain Jack finally explains to Tosh that he had in fact assumed the original Captain Jack's name after the original was killed and he needed an identity to go und...
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Eve Myles, Indira Varma and John Barrowman by Steve Brown/BBC America
When John Barrowman's time-traveling, bisexual, alien-fighting Captain Jack Harkness returns on Jan. 26 for a second season of Torchwood, look for what BBCA calls "a life-changing event for one of the team." James Marsters of Buffy/Angel fame, who most recently did his sci-fi thing on Smallville (and is expected to return in a January episode) is due to guest-star on BBCA's highest-rated series, as is Alan Dale (Ugly Betty) and Doctor Who's Freema Agyeman.Marsters, who says he wrote five songs for his new solo CD Like a Waterfall while filming in Wales, tells us he plays a time-agent criminal "with a lower-class English accent" who's not that unlike his sexy bloodsucking Spike "before the wheelchair. He goes around in different times killing people with no remorse at all."Marsters says he had a "fabulous" time doing the Who spin-off. "They're a randy bunch over there," he says approvingly. In other good news for fans, Torchwood: The Complete First Season goes on sale Jan. 22, with a...
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“Martha Jones, you saved the world.”— The DoctorRight then! Here we are at the end of the third season of the new Doctor Who series and what a ride it has been to get here. First the Dalek raged war upon the human race, followed by the Cybermen (and Dalek) also raging war upon the human race. Who else could possibly top that duo of evil and wage war upon the human race again? The Master, that’s who! And who exactly is needed to help put an end to the Master’s reign of terror? A potential doctor: one Martha Jones.One year has passed since the events in the previous episode. The Doctor, Martha’s family and Captain Jack are all still prisoners of the Master on the flying aircraft carrier Valiant. During this time, the Master with the help of his "children," the Toclafane, have conquered and enslaved the Earth. Labor camps have been set up with the purpose of building a fleet of ships and devices capable of decimating the universe in the process of setting ...
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And with that... we hit the first Torchwood clunker. This episode verged at times on the absurd (yes, I'm aware that it's a sci-fi series — you know what I mean) but mostly was just rather boring. For the first time I was aware that it was an hour-long show; while last week my heart was in my throat waiting to see how it turned out, this week I was sort of waiting for it to be over.The story revolved around a cybernetic menace who gave a whole new meaning to the term "bionic woman." Lisa, a gorgeous former Torchwood employee, was at some point in the organization's murky past "upgraded" with cybernetic implants to fight a gruesome battle. As the episode begins, Ianto is sneaking a doctor who specializes in such matters into the HQ basement, where he's hidden Lisa — who, in her former manifestation, was his girlfriend, and still considers herself as such. She's the last of her kind (as far as we know; please let her be the last) and only escaped because Ianto rescued her. T...
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Good evening, Torchwood watchers, and welcome to the blog of this BBC show's American premiere. Let's get right to it and meet the cast of characters: The star, of course, is Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), whom some of you may know already from his appearances on Doctor Who. Charming, handsome and unabashedly bisexual (or perhaps more aptly "omnisexual"), he's the head of a group of investigators out to solve crime of the strangest sort in Cardiff, Wales. His team consists of Owen Harper (Burn Gorman), a scientist who apparently enjoys the nightlife; Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori), the technology gal with a penchant for classic literature; Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd), Torchwood's "cleanup man," who makes sure the team has all they need; and Suzie Costello (Indira Varma), Captain Jack's No. 2, who, as we'll see, has a hand in the evening's serial killings.Oh, and let's not forget Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles), the cop with a seemingly ordinary life who finds herself swept up in th...
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