Touchwood

Doctor Who returns on the 5th April! Huzzah! More on that next week, but before the Doctor is reunited with Donna, Captain Jack has his hands full...or is that Ianto?

Yes Torchwood was back to its old tricks in Adrift a rather slower paced more emotional episode focusing on Gwens attempts to track down people who have gone missing in the rift. Some really good moments, Robert Pugh as the older version of a missing teenager was nothing short of brilliant, and Ruth "would I or wouldn't I?" Jones was great as his mother. The rest of the cast were pretty dire, and that handjob was unforgivable. Yes, for as Gwen walked in on Ianto and Jack getting off with each other, and Ianto pulled away his hand! Once again it's guilty of completely unneccesary "adult" moments, presumably to lighten the tone, but instead undermined what was a touching and emotional episode.

The Hand(Job) Of Fear

Thank god then for the next episode Fragments, a flashback heavy episode owing much to shows like Buffy, Primeval and, most obviously Lost. The team are caught in an explosion, caused by some sort of flashback bomb, seeing as it results in Jack, Tosh, Owen and Inaton remembering how they came to be employed by Torchwood. So we get Captain Jack in Victorian England with some mean sideburns, doing his best Angel impression, before flashing ahead to 1999 where some guy kills the whole of Jacks team for no real reason other than he wants to save them from whats coming. However we're still not sure what that is. Toshiko gets arrested by UNIT who really seem to have lost their sense of humour since 9/11 sticking people in red jumpsuits in some heavy handed Guantanamo allegory...well blatant signposted reference. Still no mention of her bumping into the 9th Doctor though! Then the weakest flashback being Jack and Ianto hunting down a pterodactyl in a gayed up Primeval rip-off. Owen gets the best one though, and Burn Gorman continues to cement himself as my favourite British actor, not bad for someone I hated around this time last year. Telling the story of a happy Owen preparing to get married to a woman with a problem with her brain, that problem being something that looked like a left-over Dalek mutant stuck to her brain. She dies, and we finally understand why Owen was such a terrible cunt last season. But who the hell left these bombs for our beloved Torchwood? Hang on...it's...no it can't be....it's Spike! So we get a massive showdown between Angel and Spike, sorry Captain Jack and Captain John on the 4th of April on BBC2. And rumour has it that not everyone's going to make it through the series finale alive.

"I'll get you Torchwood!" - Oh, wrong Spike...sorry