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Title: Torchwood - Day Five - Review View count: 1252 Rating: 4.4827585 (29 ratings) Description: ---- This Video Contains Spoilers --- I review Torchwood Children of earth Day Five --- WRITTEN REVIEW --- For four days the story has been building towards this epic conclusion. The episode everything has been building towards. And what a disappointment! Even slight hopes are shattered as this story turns out to be one of the worst of the series. The sequence with Gwen talking to the camera was a pretty gripping monologue, brilliantly played by Eve Myles. The actual episode started off very slow, though this series has done that a lot, so I let it go. It soon picked up well, the scene where we find out the 456s reasoning for wanting the children is sickening. They want all this for a hit. The simplicity of this reasoning seemed to, in my eyes, lower the threat. I was also a bit disappointed that all this series had been because of that, but I carried on nonetheless. Frobisher discovering that his family were to be put down for inoculation was another shocker. I felt sick for him and was chanting at the TV for Frobisher to punch the smarmy PM in his face. The scene that followed was horrific and though many people dislike monologue voiceovers like this one they cant have disliked this scene. It was beautifully done, the moment I realised what he was going to do I couldnt look away from the screen. Extremely well done, a strong, controversial idea, executed brilliantly. This was followed by some rather moving shots of the kids... well... moving. When the army walked started attacking houses it was just disgusting, the fight scene with Andy was amazing and somehow in the circumstances, amusing as well. From there on in however it went very downhill. We had to sit through Gwens monologue again (it wasnt that good) then sit through way too many clips of children being taken. At one point I was so sick of seeing clips of the children I wished the 456 would hurry up and take them. Just when all things were looking grim, Jack plucks a solution out of the ether, the solution of course requires a sacrifice and that sacrifice is gonna have to be his Grandson who we didnt really care about anyway so it doesnt matter all that much. Jack kills his Grandson, what a twat. The world is saved and the soldiers somehow know this as they stop chasing the kids and let them all hug happily (because they all somehow know as well). The scene with Jack sat in a corridor when his daughter walked in could have led to an engrossing conversation about what was right and about Jacks morals and some interesting stuff. Instead his daughter just walks out. Jump to sixth months later and Jack is jumping around the universe with his vortex manipulator (that Gwen hasnt given him yet...:S ) getting all upset cos he killed his grandson. He hops off into space in a shot that is so cheesy it gives Vieux Boulogne a run for its money. So where does this leave Torchwood? No Jack. No Hub. No car. No real members at all. It would seem: No more Torchwood. Shame. Especially that the final episode had to feel so...crap. Tags: torchwood, children, of, earth, day, five, review, Author: LSmurf |
