Torchwood, Children of Earth Day 4 - SPOILERS FOR THIS EPISODE ONLY

Okay, so they not only did it again last night, they bettered it! 6.2 million viewers (27% share) going up to 6.3m (27.1%) in the last 15 minutes from 21:45!!! That rise in the last fifteen minutes was all due to twitter I think. The tweets going around last night were telling people that something big was going down and not to miss it.

I'm not really going to go into too much detail about last night's show, I'm just going to say this. This episode had everything, laughter, suspense, abject sadness AND it took one heck of a risk which we've seen the result of all over the net. They killed off Ianto and fans are not happy, in fact a heck of a lot of them are absolutely furious! What's even worse than him dying, is that when Ianto took his last dying breath he declared his love for Jack. Did Jack reciprocate? Did Jack profess his never ending affection for him? No and no! Well then, exactly what DID Jack say... well, not much at all really. The fans are not happy. Not only are they in uproar because TPTB killed Ianto, but those same PTB didn't even get Jack to tell the poor boy that he loved him! Shame on them!

I'm not going to complain to TPTB about the storyline or the ending. You know as well as I do that this is sci-fi people and as we've seen before in Torchwood the end doesn't necessarily mean the end! Don't all jump on me, I don't know anything. I haven't read anything about Day 5 so this is purely my feelings. I don't expect to get a happy ending tonight, but I'm just saying that it's possible, so let's just wait and see.

Anyway, this was another fabulously written episode by John Fay and as usual Euros Lyn directs with precision and the acting, well, the acting was superb! I have some favourites, but I'll tell you about those tomorrow after we know the outcome and some of the dust settles.

Saddest moments for me - apart from Ianto of course - were poor Clem's ear-bleeding, screaming demise and those sad, sad tears of Lois' running down the seeing-eye contact lenses.

Roll on Day 5.

Torchwood, Children of Earth Day 2 - SOME SPOILERS

Another great episode! This time written by John Fay and directed again by Euros Lyn.

Things to mention. There was a lot of male flesh on show in this episode! Mounds and mounds of it in fact!

We start off with an underpants wearing Rhys, trying hard to get dressed whilst Gwen is breathing down his neck trying to get him to hurry up!

Next we have a full... um, well, just a full body of Ianto's brother-in-law lying in bed. The troops who are looking for Ianto just rip the sheet from his body and there he is! To the statement "We're looking for Ianto Jones." He shouts an indignant "Well, you won't find him in my bed. I'm married!" *snort*

Somewhere in the middle of this we get NAKED JACK! I mean really, really naked Jack! Full-frontal naked Jack in fact! Long distance camera work unfortunately, also a clever little bit of interference to obscure... um, things, a little. So for me viewing via my 32 inch TV there was nothing really to write home about. However, for those lucky people out there with tellys 42" or even 50" maybe you were a bit more impressed! ;)

A couple of quick glimpses of an almost naked undertaker, tied-up in a coffin follow and then we get another NAKED JACK!

Yep, you heard, naked Jack, again, this time rising from the rubble, not full-frontal though, but a full back view. Cute little bot on show for seconds, if not minutes!

I swear John Barrowman is as proud of his arse as Gale Harold is of his!

Anyway, this was very much a Ianto and Gwen episode as Jack just kept getting killed and saved.

Still exciting, I'm still wanting more.


ETA: Great news from Chris Chibnall, writer/producer of Torchwood, Dr. Who etc., the figures for Day 2 were 5.6 million (24% share), beating both Eastenders and Emmerdale. That means it more or less held onto it's premier viewing figures! Now that's impressive.

Tonight's episode should be great too, with James Moran and RTD sharing the writing credits and again with producer Peter Bennett and director Euros Lyn.


Okay, so here's a little 'behind the scenes' vid with the lovely Gareth David-Lloyd!

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!