1.6: More Than This (Spoilers on Release)

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Tony

I liked this one. But as I've kind of felt all through series 1, this range needs to do something to distinguish itself. All the stories have been competent, they've all even been good--but there's just something missing that keeps it from being a MUST-HAVE range, IMO.

I think the arc point is well made, and the ambition of setting stories from all across the history of Torchwood is also quite brave but seems to be paying off. I wonder how far away we are from full cast. The finale as such isn't a finale and more the line between the first six and the next. Much how the CCs range didn't have an arc, just releases put out in bunches, then became continuous

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Tony

I really loved this episode. It was such an intimate, character focused 2-hander. What was lovely was that I was so invested in Roger Pugh, this lonely but really nice man. We will probably never see him again, but that's ok. This range is quickly rising to the top of my list of favorites.

This was such a satisfying production that I'm not at all disappointed that it didn't revisit the connecting arc. I agree we need a payoff for all that intrigue at the start of the series but I think I'm glad they didn't try to shoehorn a rapid resolution to that into this last episode of the first series, I'm sure that leaves more room for it to blossom into something really special.

Ah... I just love Gwen, she is so many things and all of them so well played by Eve, and I thought both lead characters were excellently written here as well.

Also enjoyed the behind-the-scenes as usual, I think some of the things that came up help round out my perspectives on Torchwood and New Who, or at least they gave me occasion to explore that and come up with a deeper appreciation. I feel a bit odd getting a warm fuzzy over something like a grocery list in the story but I think that's part of the "domestic" or human side of Torchwood that I really do think is one of its many great strengths. Case in point there were number of unearthly things in the story but it seemed to work brilliantly even without really making them the central focus.

Listened to this for the first time yesterday. Yeeeeeaaaaaah! Gwen's back! Good good stuff.

This is a nice piece that would serve really good as a season opener, as it were. Just a nice slice of Torchwood. Aliens, time stuff, big bloody threats, little human moments, pathos, ethos, guns, shouting, Andy, peppers...

I just really love this episode. It's great.

I kind of hope Roger Pugh comes back again. He said he'd got an archaeological degree of some sort, didn't he? Maybe they can have that come into play in a future release.

As my first exposure to Audio Torchwood, I have to say that i am blown away at how good it was. Big finish were able to create a tale that was adult in a way the TV show was as instead of intense violence and swearing, that were able to make a deep tale about loss and there being more than this. It's dark in a way that it isn't over the top. Roger Pugh was a rich character that I would love to see back, but think that he should just be left as is. Eve Myles continues to pour heart and soul into Gwen Cooper and the direction is so good that it the episode feels so natural and human. 10/10 and a great first exposure to the world of Torchwood on Audio

I'm exactly the opposite. There should almost always be episodes in arcs that have nothing to do with the on-going stories. Things don't always link up in nice lines. It's actually more realistic that every now and again the team should hear mention of The Committee rather than every time they encounter adversaries, they bring up The Committee. And storytelling-wise the variation is better. Even the Key to Time season, which really HAS to feature the Key in every story, has the sense to vary things - for example in five of the six stories the Doctor and Romana spend whatever adventure they're having trying to find out what and where the Key segment is - and it turns out to be something that is also important to the storytelling of the individual adventure. In The Androids of Tara, they find it within five minutes of landing and it's got nothing to do with the adventure they get caught up in.   

When the Poirot TV series still had The Big Four and The Labours of Hercules to adapt, I said it was a shame they couldn't go back to series of six one-hour slot episodes - serialise The Big Four over one series of six episodes and then do Labours over two more series - one episode per Labour.  A friend pointed out that there'd never been an adaptation of The Lemesurier Interitance. I said to bung it somewhere in the middle of The Big Four. And then at the end Hastings says "But there's one thing I don't understand... how did the Lemesurier thing tie in...?" " Ah mon ami. You need everything tied up in ze big bow. Poi-Ro knows that life, it is not like zat'. 

Honestly, I should just be in charge of everything.