First of all fair warning: there will be spoilers in this post for Torchwood – Children of Earth. It was on 2 years ago and that’s long enough for people to have seen it.
So last night we watched the new US/UK version of Torchwood. And it was ‘meh’.
This is for a couple of reasons. The first being that, apparently, Children of Earth never happened, with the exception of The Hub being blown up. No one other than Jack and Gwen seem to remember the 456 (even though the numbers are used in Miracle Day, they don’t seem to reference the aliens) or the fact that 10% of the children of Earth were to be taken. Never mind that Jack killed his grandson to stop them. This made him, in my and others estimation, unredeemable. I just don’t care about him any more after that action. Life of the one for the life of the many, yeah yeah, whatever. I personally think Russell T wrote himself into a corner and took the worst way out possible.
The other reason I was disappointed was because you hear ‘US Alien show’ and you think big explosions, major special effects, great costumes. This had maybe 3 explosions, none of the huge, and the special effects they did have were, frankly, gross. Way over the top gross, in fact.
So I will continue to watch, as Simon will continue to watch. And we are both interested to see what the difference is between the US and the UK version, as we know there will be differences.
But it needs to get much much better before I’ll fall in love with it.
And…I miss Ianto. *sniff*