Torchwood: Sargasso

Hey Guys,

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.