Torchwood

[JHyde]

Series 4.1 Spoiler: show

I thought the opener was wonderful. It LOOKS different, production wise, and certainly feels different, much more like a film. Bharat Nalluri is a very stylish director and he doesn't disappoint here.

It's 4 minutes until Gwen turns up, a full 20 until Jack does and they're not reunited until the dying moments of the episode. They are both changed, Gwen more subtly so, but Jack - Jack is palpably different, and I would expect nothing else after COE.

In a lot of ways Jack covering his tracks rings very true of 'Everything Changes', when the whole shebang kicked off. I think Gwen's dad being in hospital is a wonderful grounding point for the show, as Gwen has always been our entry point to this world. I hope this is revisited.

And is Jack really mortal once more? Great plot point. Perhaps this is how Jack starts his true evolution into the Face of Boe.

Little spooked out by the fact that Gwen uses a bazooka in those last few minutes - reminds me an awful lot of a season 2 episode of Buffy. But given what a big fan of Buffy Russell is, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a deliberate homage.

It's almost 2 years to the day that Torchwood was last on the air. How we've missed you.