Torchwood: Complete BBC Series 2 Box Set (2008) [2007]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
In many ways a far more experimental and variable series than the show it spun out of, Torchwood demonstrates many of the qualities of Doctor Who, but has certainly developed a tone all of its own.

Season two finds the Torchwood team still under the pavements of Cardiff, and still led by John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harkness. But there’s a lot going on this second series, with a variety of guest stars--including Alan Dale (yup, Jim Robinson from Neighbours), James Marsters (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Richard Briers--along with the arrival of Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones. There are also a variety of intriguing threats that the Torchwood team face, and while the tempo is often uneven, at worst it’s always interesting.

What’s more, Torchwood isn’t afraid of pulling its punches. Unpredictable at times, right through to the explosive final episode, this second season is an improvement on the show’s already-impressive debut. And while it sometimes makes familiar mistakes as it tries to play to a more mature audience, it nonetheless feels riskier than before, and better for it. Furthermore, where they take it now for season three is a fascinating proposition: fortunately, there’s plenty of rewatch value in the show’s second series to cover the wait to find out. --Jon Foster

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Customer reviews

review by: Steh date: 2008-11-18 rating:
Bigger, Better and more drama
Torchwood returned in January 2008 and having waited a year, it rocked.
With the brillent new characters of the show I thought that this was better then last season and the adventure was a bang. In episode 1 was Jack's old bofriend Captain John Hart. But he was a cool villan. Then Martha Jones came to the hub. That was brillent. With Gwen's wedding and Fragments, the season finally ruled. Exit Wounds was sad, violent and powerful and seeing them in Doctor Who should made it 10 stars.
Well Done Russell T Davies
Can't wait for Series 3: Children of time

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review by: Ness date: 2008-11-06 rating:
Much better than series one...but still much worse than anything else in the known universe.
Series two is better than series one by ten billions miles...but it still sucks worst than anything I have ever seen in my entire life.
(in this season a person can talk but they are dead, ok that is fine...but then that person needs to give rescue breaths (CPR) to someone...well that person can't do it because they are dead and thus according to the plot can't breath...but that person still can talk?!?!?!?!?!...who ever wrote this show has less understanding of the human body than a muck sweeper in the darkages. It was painful to see this scene and wonder why the actor didn't just walk out on the show when he/she got the script)
Now about the show...
I have to say that Owen was almost an ok character, Yanto (or something like that I really don't care enough to check), Gwen's kind of man, Tosh (the hyper asian lady in AbFab whom I loved in that series), and Jack's ex where pretty ok done (Jack's ex being the mosty likable).
Other than that the series is the most horrid peice of trash I have ever had the misfortune to download for free...I am so glad I had been downloading Who before buying the DVDs...I liked the actors, but after series one of the new ones it sarted losing something (good plots for one). Well I downloaded this because Jack may have been a bit horridly over played at times but I liked him in the first season because he was a neat change. Well they force the horrid fish eyed gap toothed Gwen on you right away with a voice that could peel paint out of a closed paint tin. As an actor she may be good, but they have her act slow and do these horrid stares at everything under the sun that makes her look a bit genetically disadvantaged. They force her as the main character for no good reason, run horrible plots that I would have been ashamed to write even when I was in the second grade...no really they are that bad. They put items laying around a building to be found in the future 60 years later and the person just happens to walk right up to where they had set them. It is torture to watch as a Who fan, it is horrid to watch as a person wanting to see Sci-Fi, if you want a good show with gay characters in it then watch The Wedding Banquet or V for Vendetta (I am looking at you Fry...darned fine actor). This series could have been great but it is the worst written series I have ever ever ever ever ever seen. And I watched Full House growing up. Do yourself a favor and download the first series...if you still want it then buy a PS3 and get the Blu-ray version...not because the Blu-Ray version is better, but because you are already throwing away your money, so you might as well do it in style.

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review by: date: 2008-10-02 rating:
TORCHWOOD: THE COMPLETE SECOND SERIES!!!
Well, here it is
Torchwood Series 2, heres my review.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 9/10: Jack and the team investigate a suspicious death, Jack thinks he knows what it is, his old friend (well, boyfriend), Captain John Hurt who appears to have knolledge about a boy called Gray.
Sleeper: 8/10: Burglars become scared after they try to burgle a house and the residents come home only to discover that they are aliens. Torchwood investigate them and discover a horrible truth.
To the Last Man: 9.5/10: I gave this wpisode 9/10 because it made me a bit happy to see Tosh find true love with a WW1 soilder but there's a catch, he has to be cryogenicaly frozen after 3 weeks and go into hibernation for a year. But, Gwen sees a ghost at the hospital where Tommy (the soilder) was placed after he was blown up. Only he can save Cardif and the world but, that means Tommy will have to go back to 1913 and never see Tosh again.
Meat: 7.5/10: Rhys gets supicious about Gwen and Jack so he goes undercover to find out what she does, he befriends the local "Mafia" who sell him alien meat what Rhys believes to be beef but when Torchwood get suspicious, they place Rhys under arrest for lying to them, Rhys has to do the most dangerous thing of his life. Can Gwen eventually give Rhys the amnesia pill or does she choose not to destroy her relationship again.
Adam: 8/10: Newboy Adam joins Torchwood, only to make them belioeve that he has been their for 20 years causing everyone to forget their love ones. Tosh falls in love with Adam and Owen does as muchs as he can to convince Tosh that he is a nice person.
Reset: 6.5/10: The Doctor's companion Martha Jones has joined Torchwood following murders in Cardiff. The aliens turn out to be wasps who are not related to the Vespiforms in Doctor Who. While Owen dies after being shot.
Dead Man Walking: 10/10: Owen gets resurected after Jack finds the final glove (as Ianto siad "Gloves always come in pairs) and Owen realises he can't die like Jack, even after the last glove is destroyed. While Jack remembers what a fortune teller once told him about Death. Death comes to Earth to find 13 victims for his feast abd theirs only one man fit to kill him, Owen Harper.
A Day in the Dark: 9.5/10: Owen tells his most recent adventure to a girl who is going to jump off a building. This story however is a happy one where Torchwood meet an alien collector who ahs something called the Pulse which Owen trys to blow up because he thinks it's evil!!
Something Borrowed: 9.5/10: It's here! Gwen and Rhys big day, except one slight problem, following the events of Gwens last night, she gets bitten of an shape shifting alien which gives Gwen the baby and the Mother is back to claim what is rightfully hers! Can it be a happily ever after for Gwen and Rhys after all?
From Out of the Rain: 8.5/10: One of the local cinemas in Cardiff is hosting a opening film night but why does the tape show footage of the mysterious Night Travellers and where are they dissapearing to??
Adrift: 9/10: Teenagers are going missing in the heart of Cardiff and a mother has phoned Gwen Cooper to help but why does Jack not want Gwen to find the truth.
Fragments: 10/10: Gwen has been given the day off and the rest of Torchwood hae gone missing. The result is that a bomb has blown up in a warehouse which causes them to remember how they joined Torchwood. But after they all escape, Jack gets a hologram on his vortex manipulator saying that Captain John Hurt (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) has kidnapped Gray who turns out to be Jack's Brother.
Exit Wounds: 10/10: The Series Finale!! Captain John destroys most of Cardiff and it turns out that Captain John is a good character while Gray wnats revenge on the Earth and Jack for losing him. But this episode has some horrible moments like the death of Toshiko Sato after Gray shoots her and Owen Harper after being disintegrated by Nuclear Power beacuse of the radiation going around Cardiff.
So that was my review on Torchwood, Series 2 but if you are into Sci-Fi, YOU WILL LOVE THIS!!

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review by: bookwhizz date: 2008-08-06 rating:
The best series EVER!
This series is by far better than any other TV shows, I wish Torchwood will go on forever!
There is nothing more enjoyable than to come home from a busy day at JBS (John Bentley School - a secondary school - I am in year 9), switch on the telly and watch Torchwood.
I am usually so fixated on watching that I usually sit there for hours!

GO TORCHWOOD!




review by: Geekily proud date: 2008-07-22 rating:
Where are the commentaries?
Beware if you're expecting geek-fan favourites, the commentaries, on this boxed set; there aren't any.

It's almost unheard of for a box set such as this to not have any. Apologies to Auntie Beeb in advance if there just weren't any for this season. But Amazon seems to list an alternative entire Season 2 box set that isn't released yet. Could this be the edition that has all the extras? If it's the case, the BBC and 2Entertain have sunk to a new low in terms of relasing the same product twice.

Otherwise, this is an excellent season that improves enormously on Season 1. Shame this fan's experience has been let down by the DVD release.

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