"Torchwood": Positives Premierenecho

[Imzadi]

Sehr gut. Da ist bei Buffy und Angel erst letztes Jahr eingestiegen bin, habe ich erst Buffy durch geguckt und dann Angel. War an einigen Stellen zwar etwas verwirrend, aber halb so wild.

[Prospero]

Stimmt, vor "Utopia" solltest du auf alle Fälle noch Torchwood reinschieben. Wobei sie es beim Doctor ja auch gut verstanden haben die Dinge für die Nicht-Torchwood-Zuschauer zu erklären. Aber besser, du guckst dir die Staffel vorher an.
Seufz, wegen Martha werde ich wohl doch die zweite Staffel anschauen... Nächstes Jahr ist ja irgendwie Who-Overload wenn ich mir das so ansehe: Torchwood, Doctor, K9, Sarah-Jane...
Ad Astra

[Imzadi]

Torchwood: TV's Sexiest Alien Hunters

Over the years, I've somehow resisted the lure of the iconic British fantasy Doctor Who, in all of its incarnations. So imagine my surprise to be hooked on Torchwood, a cheeky and often startlingly adult spin-off.

These are the provocative adventures of Torchwood, a super-secret team of dashing agents who specialize in containing alien threats. Think MI-5 in cahoots with The X-Files. That makes sense given that their underground lair, which houses a pterodactyl in the rafters, is near a space-time rift where cosmic "driftwood" regularly washes up.

The newcomer to Torchwood is a police constable, Gwen (Eve Myles), who is regularly astonished by what she sees. Who wouldn't be, if on your first day you unleashed an airborne alien sex -addict that takes over bodies to feed off the energy from orgasms. "First contact with an alien, not quite what I expected," Gwen muses.

This crew is as naughty and irreverent as it is ruthless and arrogant, trampling civil liberties as it chases alien intruders and tests scavenged technology. Gwen often acts as a conscience for the team, especially for its mysteriously aloof leader Capt. Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), who is accused by one of the gang as being "the biggest monster of all."

His backstory is a good one, as the only Jack Harkness on record vanished in the 1941 WWII blitz, and the modern version claims to be immortal. But the big mystery among Torchwood's rank and file: Is Captain Jack gay? "Paramilitary is not the dress code of a straight man," quips one of the team. I don't recall gossip like this on the decks of the Enterprise.

Torchwood airs Saturdays, 9 pm/ET, BBC America.

http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Co...sDate=08292007

[Dune]

Und auch in Amerika bricht Torchwood Rekorde: Die meisten Zuschauer die BBCA jemals hatte. Woot! Trotzdem niedlich, was BBC America schon an Publikum reicht, um eine Serie als 'erfolgreich' zu sehen