June 12

Torchwood: Sargasso

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welcome to the 4th adventure of the 5th season of Big Finish’s Torchwood ‘Sargasso’ with Rhys Williams. I always love the ones with Rhys. It seems to play between ‘Children of Earth’ and ‘Miracle Day’ because he says that Gwen used to work for Torchwood and the already have their daughter.

Rhys bloody Williams

I just wrote the whole article and wanted to save it and everything was lost… now I try to remember what I had written. Rhys is one of my favorite supporting character. He doesn’t come up with the big plans or is the action hero. But he is good guy and he has his mistakes but he is good in taking care of people and make in this case Kaitlin fight through their situation. He doesn’t give up.

Lost at sea

Just a simple job for Rhys ends up again in a disaster. He and Kaitlin, who he meets on the container ship, are lost in the sargosso sea and the crew left the ship. The atmosphere they are creating here is amazing. You can feel the dark and the coldness just like ship dark, cold and full of plastic. The atmosphere gets lighting up by the chemistry of Rhys and Kaitlin. They are different and have different ways of seeing the world. The little discussions are fun.

similar scenario

We had a similar scenario on Doctor Who ‘Praxeus’ in which the Doctor for a moment suspect the Autons, who are the enemies here. I like this take on the problematic more. In ‘Praxeus’ they kinda used a sledgehammer to get their message across. Here it feels more subtle. It is still the same message. But here they don’t hit you with it. So I really like this story. It works great and gets the message across and we get again an old enemies of the Doctor.

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July 28

Torchwood: We always get out alive

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welcome to the next Big Finish Torchwood adventure – We always get out alive with Gwen and Rhys. A lot of you guys know already that I didn’t like Gwen but love Rhys. So I was sure that this would be the weakest story of this season. Which is not hard with how amazing all the others were. But this story is amazing and it doesn’t have to hide behind the other stories. The story of them plays after the season Miracle Day.

The long drive home

Gwen is already working again as Torchwood and Rhys is helping her. Their daughter is at home with the babysitter when they are out hunting. This story starts after they finished a job and they drive home. It doesn’t sound like much but this simple theme is amazing. Of course there is an alien out for them. But mostly it is just them driving home. I promise you it is not boring at all.

A Car drive is funny

These two go through everything in this car drive. They flirt, they argue, they fight, they understand and they are frightened. It changes so fast. One moment they fight they next they make jokes. There are a lot of deep things in it. It is about Gwen loving her job, about Rhys being afraid that someday they will not get out alive. It is about how the job influence them. How you deal with the stuff you go through.
But in the end it is about love and trust. These two found their way. They may stubble and fall a few times but in the end they go in the same direction. They know what they want and that is this life together. It is great.

Listing or not

Definitely go and listen to it. It is amazing and they are so much going on in this little car drive. Also I like to see how far Gwen and Rhys came. In season 1 and 2 I hated this pairing, because I always thought that Rhys deserve better. Gwen didn’t really love him. She just married him because Jack would never asked her. I hated this so much. This is the biggest reason why I disliked her so much. But over all that happened she start to see him, to see how much luck she has to have someone like him. When I listen to this adventures I really love them together.

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July 23

Torchwood: Visiting Hours

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here we go with the new season of Torchwood – Visiting Hours . I was really excited about it because really Rhys William deserves his own adventure. He is amazing and such a great character that definitly deserves the screen time. Truth be told Rhys is one reason i hate Gwen so much and the only reason i can accept her. The way she treated Rhys in the first two seasons was… alone for that. But Rhys loves her and that makes her acceptable.

On his own

Rhys always gets his stuff done. We have seen him deal with alot. When he found out about Torchwood his whole life changed but with all that shit going down, he never stoppt being himself and believe in the world and see the good things.
Look at Owen or Tosh Torchwood made them cynical. Torchwood changes people. Rhys is not looking away. He is always trying his best. Yes i love him. Here he got now is adventure on his own. Sadly i think the could have done more with it. Rhys is alright on is own. Of course he is not totally alone.

What happens

Rhys is spending a night in the hospital with his mother. He runs into something suspicious and is trying to find out what is going on. So he ends with his mother on the run in the floors of the hospital. That is the sad stuff. I really like the Mum stuff. She is just right mix of annoying and totally lovely. The story is not bad also… it is just… it could be more. This story just scratched the survice.

This is actually the first time i listend to a Torchwood adventure and thought that could have been more. So i am really sad that this is a adventure with one of my favorite characters that really didn’ got enough time to shine. He is amazing and i hope we will have alot more adventures with him.

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October 25

The Torchwood Archive

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it is here The Torchwood Archive. I must say that i was a little disapointed when i saw the how small the CD is. The Cd box is really small and i also dislike the way the CDs are stored. But apart from this CD box is beautifull. It is totally Torchwood and embossed silver. Look at it your self.
Torchwood Archive

What is Torchwood

This is a story about the History of Torchwood. The Basic of this story is that Jeremiah – just one guy from a future – that is visting the Torchwood Archive. He is there to shut it down but before he does it he wants to know what Torchwood and Object One is.
So he got lead through the archive by our love Andy which promised fun. But before that he also met hologramms of Ianto and Jack. Which give me so much feelings. This hologramms – more like computerprogramms – are so much like they original were.
But back to the story. Andi is leading him through to different scenes that are explaining what Torchwood is and what that Object One is. So we got scenes in different times and different characters. Some scene are really short others are longer, some seems so useless but everyone is amazing.

What we got

We got a story that i think almost everyone can listen and understand without knowing everything else, but it has so much goddies for the fans. Really got Captain Jack Harkness in his best form. We got Ianto Jones and we got both of them together. We got Gwen and Rhys. Also we have Suzie, Yvonne, Andi, Tosh and many others. Also we get my new favorite Character Norton.
But we got so much. We got an idea of what Tosh and Owen could have been. We finaly got a picture why Hopkins has killed everyone in Torchwood. Also we got a few Information about the Committee. We just got everything you need to love the story.

There is not one thing that i would change about it or what i would bad or could be better. It is just everything. You got the characters you love, get more background stories, hints future stories. One of the best thing was Yvonne scene were the Torchwood Archive couldn’t give information out because it is classified for Torchwood. I just can’t wait for the next adventure with them. The only thing i still need is Owen Harper back.

Listing or not

Suprise, suprise The Torchwood Archive is for me a totally listing too. I mean not tha i every said something else about the Torchwood stories. But none aless this is an anniversary celebration how it should be. It was everything in it. So go and buy this Cd and celebrated the 10 anniversary of Torchwood. It were amazing 10 years with amazing stories. So why are you still reading this, go listen to this story.

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November 17

Torchwood: Forgotten Lives

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welcome back to a new adventure of big finishs Torchwood ‘Forgotten Lives’. This time we know when it takes places. It plays five years after The Miracle Day and Jack is away for that time. Rhys and Gwen are living a good and normal life until an old Woman calls and talk about Jack.

Good pair

I am not a big fan of Gwen and i will never be ready to love her like i do all the others on Torchwood. But Rhys and she became a real good team and that is really amazing. I like these both together. Also i love Rhys. Rhys is someone that never really agreed with Jack and that is what he does it here again. What is really good to listen too. This adventure is different ot the others. The first two had just one of the Torchwood team as a acting character. Here we have Gwen and Rhys. But here we also have Captain Jack Harkness not has John Barrowman but has a role in it.

Like Sense8

The idea that is played with here is simular to the idea of Sense8. It is that people can jump into other bodies. The can’t stay in one. It is like you are every day in a new body. The race that has invented that, doesn’t ask other races if they want this, they just do it to them. They thing that they are the good people, that they are so protecting the weak. I think we can discuss about it. But to be sure is that, doing it to them is not the right thing.

This story is not bad for a Gwen Story and the end is like a goodbye to Jack but also a new beginning. A new beginning for a new Torchwood.

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August 11

Torchwood: The Devil and Miss Carew

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i heart it before but i am not remembering anything from it. So it is now like a totally new story. This story is with Rhys. Rhys uncle died and they go there. There is something that overs people, which are dying a deal.

They are blackouts and everything seems to have to do with a Miss Carew, which seemed like she did that deal, wich Rhys uncle refused. It shows us a side of the old we don’t want to talk about. Miss Carew is an independant woman, but her illness and age make her a prisoner in her body. She needed 24 hours care and it was a horror for her.

The characters are really in character. I love the banter between Jack and Ianto. One of the best thing in the Story is Rhys noise when he tried to work on the computer.

So i totally knew why didn’t remember it. It is a nice story, nothing really deep, nothing really interessting, you can listen to it and that is okay and nothing more. That is my opinion.

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