Comments on: TONIGHT! Torchwood – Children of Earth

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:31:36 +0000

I am gonna ignore the last post from ‘StopthisGarbageNOW’ as he/she is probably still wiping the egg off their face after seeing the last episode of ‘Children of Earth’. I sooo love Torchwood and put the suggestion to John Barrowman himself that the 456 Aliens were in fact the MACRA. He just looked at me with that knowing cheeky smile and said ‘Maybe Maybe’. Bring back Torchwood – us geeky sci-fi folk love it. RTD is a GOD. xx

By: StopThisGarbageNOW

StopThisGarbageNOW — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:47:37 +0000

I am part way through Ep. 5, the last one, and was very disappointed to see it was written by Russell T Davies. The others were by Moran or RTD and Moran. Already major characters have been wiped out with no particular expansion, enemies who were obviously supposed to die horrible deaths have gone woosy and helpful, the dramatic music and boring speeches are swelling to fill all voids, and I just KNOW the ending of this ep. is going to be so bad its going to make me want to punch my fist through this screen.

Torchwood 1 was a deluge of average with occasional patches of intriguing zapness.

Torchwood 2 was an abomination before the universe and everyone involved in its creation should have been killed by now. Has this been done yet?

Now this…..

RTD. Die. Just. Please, die.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:22:57 +0000

The 456 is soooo the Macra. I have a doctor who encyclopedia and i looked up the Macra and it said they live in a poisonous atmosphere and devolved over the years. They don’t eat the kids they will use them to mine the gases they need to live. AND there were 3 clues during the episode:
1. Gwen said Gridlock (the episode you first saw the Macra in)
2. The poisonous gases in the chamber
3. The crab claws

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:15:27 +0000

Watched it all in one go, in USA, downloaded saturday – couldn’t stop watching, loved every second

By: Stuart Renton

Stuart Renton — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:09:51 +0000

Having never been a fan of Torchwood, I felt it was definitely the best of the bunch so far.

I think they ended it all off pretty well, and it was a decent story.

But I do think it could have been condensed down into perhaps three episodes, as there was an awful lot of extremely slow scenes designed to pad out those 5 hours.

Overall though, pretty darn good!

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:24:41 +0000

Is it just me or is this hyperventilated rubbish, masquerading as real drama? The too-loud music track, the general breathlessness of it – it’s all a bit much

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:19:11 +0000

So – are the 456 actually the Macra?

crabby claws,
poisonous gas atmosphere
beginning to devolve into beasts with the occasional squealing and spraying

no idea why they’d want the children – food, or to work in mines?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:26:19 +0000

What will happen to all the stuff that was kept in the hub, alien stuff, bodies, especially jacks brothers body which is only frozen, leaves alot of possibilities for next series…

By: Llygoden

Llygoden — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:38:08 +0000

Argghhh!!!! 2 down 3 to go. Wish they were shown all at once. Not sure how i’m gonna cope waiting 24 hours between each episode. Brilliant series so far

By: Shag

Shag — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:58:26 +0000

Wow! I can’t believe they showed a Torchwood trailer in an American movie theater. How cool is that!!!!!