Torchwood, Children of Earth Day 3 - SOME SEMI-SPOILERS

Okay, so it was all about what things look like, how they appear to others and how we see things tonight.

Jack worrying that his track suit bottoms was "not a good look".

Getting various members of the Cardiff public to 'look the other way' while their laptops, cars and mobiles etcetera were stolen.

Ianto making sure that Jack got his 'image' back with the RAF Great Coat and presumably the rest of the uniform with a stolen credit card.

Gwen convincing poor, treacherous Lois to be their 'eyes' with the all seeing contact lenses (good to... um, see them back again).

In fact, everyone has tried out the lenses apparently to see how 'things' look! ;)

Seeing, but not really seeing, the aliens... thank God! Hope we don't get any closer looks at those dribbling appendages and the bucket loads of green snot!

Finally, of course, we have things not being how they look. Jack appears to have been complicit in a horrendous act, but he wouldn't do something like that willingly or knowingly... would he?

Another great episode co-written by James Moran and Russell T. Davies. I have one small criticism though, it still seems very biased towards Gwen so we don't see anywhere near enough Jack and/or Ianto! I'm not talking 'relationships' or anything here, simply airtime.

Tomorrow it's John Fay's turn again at writing Day 4. As usual Euros Lyn directs and Peter Bennett produces.


ETA: Bleedin' Bloody Blimey, 5.9 MILLION... AGAIN, well 5.87 (27.1%) actually, but still... making it the most watched programme between 21:00 and 22:00!! This really is turning out to be the "Event" that RTD and the Beeb were looking for! The next two days are critical, we all know that Friday night, especially, is NOT a good night for a show - any show - it practically begs to be ignored on the week's traditional "going out" night. We'll see.

Torchwood, Children of Earth Day 1 - SOME SPOILERS

OMG. Absolutely fabulous! RTD has done it again, this was beautifully written.

It's different, but brilliant. Thank God they moved it to BBC1 if this is the result!

I loved every moment of it. Those of you who haven't seen it, you're in for a real treat.

I loved Gwen saying hello to a photo of Owen and Tosh when she walked into Torchwood.

LOVED Ianto's family! His sister obviously loves him and wheedled out of him that he likes Jack, not men, just Jack. Hm, not sure about that RTD. Anyway, after his little chat with his sister, his brother-in-law came in and gave him a huge hug and said: "Aye, aye, gay boy! She says you're taking it up the arse." I almost died! :D

We met Jack's daughter. Hm, she has a lot of resentment for her dad in her and is being very protective of her son.

Interesting that the Director of all five episodes, Euros Lyn, has also been mentioned in connection with the Doctor Who film we keep hearing rumours about.

Okay, so a great opening episode, and I must say that perhaps it is a good thing this is on every night this week. :)

Tomorrow's episode - Day 2 - is written by John Fay and directed again by Euros Lyn.


ETA: From James Moran's twitter - he's one of the brilliant writers - 5.9 million of us watched this last night! Fantastic figures. If they can keep this up all week, then there will definitely be a Season 4! Great stuff!