Torchwood Miracle day ep 3

It seems that I do have an opinion every week on the show I wasn't sure that I would have so here we go.

Firstly minor squee here, Jane Espenson one of my favourite writers (wrote most famously for Buffy and has written some Battlestar Galactica co-created Warehouse 13) put pen to paper for this episode and I really wanted to embrace it and love it because this woman wrote some of my favourite telly moments and you know what?

I'm feeling back to square one in not feeling this new Torchwood.

First off, BBC you've cut some of the naughty scenes, really in this day and age do you have to?

Right back to the plot, still loving Jilly the evil PR woman she is deliciously devious and we've learned that she's working for the EVIL big pharma company Phicor. Also she's managed to win over the horrendous Oswald Danes.

The 'team' Jack is having a bit of a mid life crisis it seems, coming to terms with being mortal is a big thing, and he tackled it the way that most people tackle things that they find hard to handle and sought solace at the bottle of a glass and with a cute (male) bar tender. Gwen is Gwen and I don't think that her character has changed at all, her world has got bigger but she's the rock of this series.  When Jack calls her, clearly not coping in the middle of the night Gwen has managed to speak to Rhys and Annwyn which obviously shows where her priority lies.

I like Esther, I do even though I feel that they are just pushing her into the role that was vacated by Tosh and characteristically they are similar. I still feel like Rex is meant to be Owen Harper mark II and no sorry he does not work in the sarky role because he doesn't appear to be able to be sarcastic. Though props to the makeup team, his chest wound was quite disturbing.  I find the doctor too a little bit of a non entity and again it feels like the tropes of series one Torchwood with what happens when Tosh found out that Owen was having an affair with Gwen.

I liked the bit in the warehouse "its bigger on the inside" oh lol. Also the contact lenses that we first saw in Children of Earth. I also liked the soulless, those masks are disconcertingly creepy.

So what about the plot? Well it seems that EVOL!BIG!PHARMACOMPANY is EVOL! They have been stockpiling drugs for a long time which implies that they knew that this was coming. Dun dun dun. With the Oswald thing, who is using who? I'm not sure yet.

So we've got a bunch of questions to which more will be added next week, at least according to the trailer we will, I'm wondering if I'll reach saturation point for the Questions.  An answer or two would be nice.  

Oh by the way, if you are missing Owen Harper all the more by Rex being a Fail!Owen!Replacement! you can catch Burn Gorman, being awesome in the Hour.

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