I always liked Torchwood but there was a certain amount of having to accept a slightly camp and cartoonish aura. Not so in Children of Earth. Quatermass anyone? Beautifully done - you can imagine that from script-writing to editing, there was light touch on the levers - let's not go over the top - let's make it stand for itself - let's not show anyone the monsters. Let's show everyone as flawed - as in it for themselves. Let's scare everyone witless and let us have Rhys as our proxy in the Whoniverse. Above all let's have Ianto's death as tear-inducing as "Daddy! My Daddy!" (officially one of only three times that men are allowed to cry). It had the bureaucracy of Brazil and the nightmares of Elm street, it had everything and yet it kept the old excesses in check. It is not for children no matter how much they pester. It is to remember forever.
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Agreed, brother. Hard to believe that They'd killed off another major character -- what is this, The Wire? -- since surely Cap'n Jack would breath life into the old boy. Not so. Five nights of quality.
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