Torchwood You Believe It?

I'll come to the second series of Torchwood in a minute, but I first want to mention the sixth series of one of Torchwood's major influences; Angel. Of course the new series takes place in comic book form much like Buffy's 8th season. Unlike Buffy's 8th season however, I'm not entirely sure Angel was crying out to be continued. The final shot of season 5 was so ballsy that to continue it sort of undermines it. And so far, everyone seems to hate each other again, one of the main problems with series 3 and 4 of Angel. But I'm sticking with it because there are some brilliant touches, the ending of number 3 is a bloody gem, and I cannot wait to see how it all pans out. I just hope they can all eventually get along.

Another group of people that could've done with learning to get along with each other rather than getting it on with each other are the Torchwood team, returning this week on BBC2. The last series was, to borrow an overused phrase , a bit of a curates egg. Good in parts, the good bits constantly undermined by the forced adult scenes. Still the opening episode of Series 2 is fantastic, and not just because they've got Spike from Angel in it. Anyone crying out for slash episode involving Angel and Spike getting it on will have to make do with the (surprisingly well handled) gay kissing between Captain Jack and Spike. The scene with Ianto and Jack trying to organise a 'date' was almost cute. The team are getting on with each other! Gwen appears to have taken lessons from Elaine in Seinfeld in her shoving technique! And it looks as if they've taken some lessons from Heroes by adding minor cliffhanger endings (If episode one's "I found Grey" ending is anything to go by.) and it has Spike, who looks like he'll be back! I'll happily spend the 13 weeks until the Doctor returns with this group of people. Just hope they don't screw it up.