Torchwood, Children Of Earth, Day Two

So, it appears that the children being used as a broadcast device for returning aliens is indeed just a dramatic hook. I’d rather have had a group, or a single child, being used, someone we could care about, as it’s a bit difficult to care about every single child in the entire world at the same time.

I liked the on-the-run episode, with Ianto and Gwen having to run and run, whilst figuring out what was going on. As we, the viewers are, there’s been a few hints dropped but all we know is that the aliens are coming back (or monsters from the deep?). Good to see the Torchwood crew escaping Cardiff, about time.

The silliness of indestructible Captain Scarlet Jack reached new heights, as he exhibited T1000 scales of coming back from the dead. Re-growing from just a head, to a body. I laughed a lot when they encased him in concrete, and again when the concrete block was dropped off a cliff. Although I could have done without seeing Barrowman naked. To be honest, it wasn’t as bad a get out of jail as I expected, at least he grew back in absolute agony.

And the episode ended on a lovely image of the crazy civil servant resting his hands wide on the alien atmosphere tank, complete with red an black checked marble tiles in front. Very gothy.

Entertaining and better than expected. Looking forward to tomorrow’s episode.