Torchwood: Complete BBC Series 1 Box Set [2006]

Review Summary: It's OK but grated on a few issues

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Why can the BBC not get the volume balanced properly? The menus have blastingly loud music compared to the episodes themselves, so you have to turn the volume down to select the episode and then up again to watch it. Minor irritation but no excuse for it from the BBC. Also the menu links you are forced to watch every time you want to go turn on the subtitles or something are annoyingly long. Let me watch the DVD already!

That said onto the review of the material itself.
Torchwood is based around Captain Jack Harkness from the new Dr Who series and Torchwood the shadowy agency "outside the government, beyond the police" set up to capture and use alien artifacts.
The (13) episodes themselves are a mix of suspence, horror, action and character building. One of them is 100% focused on character buidling of a characger thats just dull. Don't watch it (it's called "the alien eye" or something similar).
Darker and with more 'adult' themes than Dr Who, Torchwood is clearly aimed at the adult audience, fair enough.
Captain Jack is Gay, fair enough again except they *keep on* about his sexuality. Gee, OK, he's gay, can we have a episode where he doesn't kiss or shag someone? Or if he has to can we avoid lingering on it like it's the whole point of the episode?
Otherwise it's enjoyable but not outstanding. I'm gald I watched it but in no hurry to buy season 2.

Review Summary: A nine O clock Doctor Who

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Torchwood with very adult style is brillent. The first series sparkled onto on BBC Three in October 2006 and the first two episodes rocked. With the crossover to Doctor Who in End Of Days was a true masterpiece and you can see the crossover in Upotipa the thrid season of Doctor Who. Despite not ever doing a post-watershed show Russell T Davies has done a fanastic job.
Torchwood rocks
Love the second series as well

Review Summary: Why can I not rate this a Zero.

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I have to say that Owen was almost an ok character, Yanto (or something like that I really don't care enough to check), Gwen's kind of man, Tosh (the hyper asian lady in AbFab whom I loved in that series), and Jack's ex where pretty ok done (Jack's ex being the mosty likable).
Other than that the series is the most horrid peice of trash I have ever had the misfortune to download for free...I am so glad I had been downloading Who before buying the DVDs...I liked the actors, but after series one of the new ones it sarted losing something (good plots for one). Well I downloaded this because Jack may have been a bit horridly over played at times but I liked him in the first season because he was a neat change. Well they force the horrid fish eyed gap toothed Gwen on you right away with a voice that could peel paint out of a closed paint tin. As an actor she may be good, but they have her act slow and do these horrid stares at everything under the sun that makes her look a bit genetically disadvantaged. They force her as the main character for no good reason, run horrible plots that I would have been ashamed to write even when I was in the second grade...no really they are that bad. They put items laying around a building to be found in the future 60 years later and the person just happens to walk right up to where they had set them. It is torture to watch as a Who fan, it is horrid to watch as a person wanting to see Sci-Fi, if you want a good show with gay characters in it then watch The Wedding Banquet or V for Vendetta (I am looking at you Fry...darned fine actor). This series could have been great but it is the worst written series I have ever ever ever ever ever seen. And I watched Full House growing up. Do yourself a favor and download the first series...if you still want it then buy a PS3 and get the Blu-ray version...not because the Blu-Ray version is better, but because you are already throwing away your money, so you might as well do it in style.

Review Summary: Don't buy it just 'cos you like Dr Who!

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Being immensely impressed with the new Dr Who, I was naturally intrigued by a spin-off from the same team. I shouldn't have bothered. What a load of old tut. There's every cliché in the book, right from the opening credits with the line of serious people walking ever-so-determinedly in slow motion towards the camera.

I sat through 4 or 5 episodes, of which only one was amusing (the nymphomaniac) then stuck the lot back in its box and returned it for a refund. (Which Amazon promptly paid, so I'm not complaining!)

Review Summary: Torchwood! Go on treat yourself to something different.

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Some of you when you hear that it has been made and produced by the Dr Who lot may be expecting a sort of Dr Who-esque style sci-fi with more adult references. Torchwood is so much more than you average sci-fi genre programme. It has very new and innovative stories. An excellent cast and deeply embedded character profiles which all are shown throughout the series.It aims to add a human and deeply reflective response to situations when the occur. Sometimes the explicit adult sequences that happen may at the times appear a bit too much and over the top, but nonetheless it makes for interesting viewing. I would defintely recommend Tourchwood to you all. It is a quite refreshing programme disimillar from you typical American sci-fi shows and I think you will enjoy it. It has the charm of Dr Who but is shown through a manner fit for its adult viewers.