One of the best Torchwood episodes. Interesting story, I think we all have, at some point, imagined what hearing others' thoughts would be like. This delves into that, and it does it quite well. The CGI for Philoctetes was very well done, too.
On another note, you can really see how selfish and a douchebag Owen is. This episode really cemented for me how unlikeable and annoying he is.
Gwen is not much better, she has been selfish as well, but at least at the end she admits it and apologizes to Tosh. I can appreciate that.
Now the whole anecdote about Jack's friend who transitioned from male to female, that was in poor taste. Especially in a show created by Russel T Davies, a gay man and starring John Barrowman, another gay man. They probably know, as gay men, what it means and how it feels to be ostracized, mocked by society, and somehow this subplot/"joke" made it into the final script? It's disappointing.
Still, even with that, it is one of the best Torchwood episodes. The pilot was okay, but episodes 2 to 6 weren't to my taste. It felt silly, but not like Doctor Who's enjoyable silliness: just plain silly.
It feels like they tried so much not to make it like Doctor Who that they forgot it's still supposed to be somewhat linked to Doctor Who. (Read: the swearing, the sex scenes, the uncomfortable sex jokes, I could go on.)
I am not surprised to learn that Toby Whitehouse penned this awesome episode, as he wrote Doctor Who's School Reunion, another awesome episode of the... Whoniverse, I guess?
I don't think anybody will ever read this review as it's an episode that aired in 2006, exactly 15 years and 1 day ago, but here's my review.
On another note, you can really see how selfish and a douchebag Owen is. This episode really cemented for me how unlikeable and annoying he is.
Gwen is not much better, she has been selfish as well, but at least at the end she admits it and apologizes to Tosh. I can appreciate that.
Now the whole anecdote about Jack's friend who transitioned from male to female, that was in poor taste. Especially in a show created by Russel T Davies, a gay man and starring John Barrowman, another gay man. They probably know, as gay men, what it means and how it feels to be ostracized, mocked by society, and somehow this subplot/"joke" made it into the final script? It's disappointing.
Still, even with that, it is one of the best Torchwood episodes. The pilot was okay, but episodes 2 to 6 weren't to my taste. It felt silly, but not like Doctor Who's enjoyable silliness: just plain silly.
It feels like they tried so much not to make it like Doctor Who that they forgot it's still supposed to be somewhat linked to Doctor Who. (Read: the swearing, the sex scenes, the uncomfortable sex jokes, I could go on.)
I am not surprised to learn that Toby Whitehouse penned this awesome episode, as he wrote Doctor Who's School Reunion, another awesome episode of the... Whoniverse, I guess?
I don't think anybody will ever read this review as it's an episode that aired in 2006, exactly 15 years and 1 day ago, but here's my review.