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Review
To the Last Man
Quantity-ratings (click here for guide to rating system):
Wordbuilding 
Gore 
Dancing 
Angst 
Aliens 
On Angst.
“…tiny amount should do it…”
(Owen describing his plans this episode to use Tommy’s blood for a DNA-time-travel-psychic-projection-plot-resolution.)
Review
Sleeper
Quantity-ratings (click here for guide to rating system):
Wordbuilding
Gore
Dancing
Angst
Aliens
(Please note – vague elements of the Season 1 plot of the ongoing 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica are discussed in the following review.)
On Aliens.
“Torchwood. Outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on earth and arming the human race against the future. The 21st century is when everything changes, and you’ve got to be ready.”
Season 1 voiceover introduction to episodes.
“Torchwood. Outside the government, beyond the police. Fighting the future on behalf of the human race. The 21st century is when everything changes… and Torchwood: is ready.”
Season 2, episode 2, voiceover introduction.
One of the more interesting BBC “extras” for Torchwood Season 1 was the www.torchwood.org.uk website, (that was in addition to the main www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/ website.)
The extensive content was intriguing, with fictional documents providing some extra detail on each episode.
It’s all gone now, and what’s replaced it at www.torchwood.org.uk is an ARG game. It too seems to add to the fictional world of Torchwood. One minor thing about it that irritates me (very slightly) is a message:
From Gwen to Owen
Thursday 10th January 2008
Owen, weren’t you going to write up a report of the Himalayas mission?
Of course, Torchwood’s Himalayas mission was mentioned in The Sound of Drums – which, in the fictional world of Doctor Who (and Torchwood) was during late June 2008.
Did the BBC learn nothing from UNIT dating?
(I’m joking.)
Review
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Quantity-ratings (click here for guide to rating system):
Wordbuilding
Gore
Dancing
Angst
Aliens
On Worldbuilding.
“…separate from the Government – outside the Police – beyond the United Nations.”
Torchwood Season 1 Episode 1.
“Torchwood. Outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on earth and arming the human race against the future. The 21st century is when everything changes, and you’ve got to be ready.”
Season 1 voiceover introduction to episodes.
As Torchwood Season 2 is soon to be broadcast, planetzogblog is back once more to Active Mode.
Episode 1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Wednesday 16 January, 9pm, BBC Two
Each of the Torchwood episodes will be rated, week by week, by planetzogblog like so (click for explanation of rating system.)
The symbols and categories should be self-evident to anyone who has seen Torchwood Season 1, but these will be explained as the weeks progress.
Note also:
Mark Lawson talks to Russell T Davies
Wednesday 16th January, 11pm, BBC Four
Each of episode of Torchwood Season 2 (2008) will be quantity-rated by planetzogblog in five different categories, then the episode will be quality-rated.
Quantity-rating symbols (for each category the maximum is 5):
World-maps. (For Worldbuilding quantity-rating.)
Weevil-chomps. (For Gore quantity-rating.)
Caryss. (For Dancing quantity-rating.)
Tear-stained-pizzas. (For Angst quantity-rating.)
Philoctetess. (For Aliens quantity-rating.)
Quality-rating symbol (the maximum is 5):
Grins. (For quality-rating.)
Eve Myles rocks.
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