Torchwood: Complete BBC Series 1 Box Set [2006]

See Larger Image	List Price: £54.99 Our Price: £17.97 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video Starring: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori, Gareth David-Lloyd Directed By: Alice Troughton, Andy Goddard, Ashley Way, Brian Kelly, Colin Teague Average Customer Rating:


Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5014503225322 Format: Box set Label: 2 Entertain Video Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video Number Of Items: 7 Publisher: 2 Entertain Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2007-11-19 Running Time: 630 Studio: 2 Entertain Video Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Reviews: While occasionally clumsy in the way it goes about things, the first season of Torchwood ultimately makes good on its promise to be a science fiction programme for an older market. So while it’s spun out from the more family-friendly Doctor Who, it does carve out an edgy, entertaining niche for itself. The programme follows the adventures of the Torchwood agency (who we met in far more prestigious form at the end of Doctor Who’s second series), a small team led by John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harkness who investigate the extra terrestrial and the paranormal. And across the thirteen episodes of this maiden season, they have a lot to look into, from the likes of a sex-craved alien and cyberwoman, through to cannibalistic foes and strange, spooky fairies. Admittedly, particularly in the early stages when Torchwood is finding its feet, there are a few missteps, and a little too much side-indulgence in exploring material that the more mainstream Doctor Who wouldn’t allow. But it’d be to your folly to write Torchwood off: by the time it gallops into the second half of this first season, the quality is strong, the storylines are interesting, and the show proves to be a real winner. Intertwining with the narrative of the main Doctor Who show, Torchwood nonetheless then works as an independent programme in its own right, replete with a strong cast of characters (led by the terrific Barrowman) and scripts that have more of an experimental edge to them. It’s certainly one of the most interesting science fiction shows Britain has produced in the last decade or two, and there’s much to enjoy again and again in this box set. --Jon Foster
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Hooked! Comment: I asked for this for Christmas after seeing the first episode at a friend's house and was absolutely hooked on it. I adore the characters for all their dark sides and their flaws and am evening warming up to Welsh accents which I used to hate (:P). All I can say is don't watch it if you're easily offended by gore, sex and are looking a lot of high moral calibre. Do watch it for Mr Barrowman. Not just attractive and smooth but some very fine acting in there from him and the cast. Just ordered season 2. James Marsters (!! :D) Customer Rating: Summary: Waste of time...and space Comment: The only reason I watched this is because I loved Jack in series one of Doctor Who, a show my best friend recommended to me even though Im no sci fi fan. Ive never seen the original but I LOVE the new series! Anyways, because of my love for Doctow Who I was really excited when I got series 1 and 2 of Torchwood. Now I know I should never have botherd! First of all most of the episodes are so boring I almost fell asleep! No character is intresting enough to care about especially not Gwen! Why oh why is she still in this!? She cant do her job properly, she always gets herself in trouble and she cries and whines about everything! Eve isnt a bad actress but even she cant pull off this awful character enough to make her watchable. If I were Jack I'd fire all of my so called team...They cant be trusted anyway. And Jack whos suppose to be gay...Is he really? Not that I care but he just seems to love sex and I feel like hed have it with anyone avalible man or women. Ive given this two stars cus some stories are ok but not much more. Thank god you dont need this show to get Doctor Who, who manage to be more mature even though its a family show...weird that. Customer Rating: Summary: It's OK but grated on a few issues Comment: Why can the BBC not get the volume balanced properly? The menus have blastingly loud music compared to the episodes themselves, so you have to turn the volume down to select the episode and then up again to watch it. Minor irritation but no excuse for it from the BBC. Also the menu links you are forced to watch every time you want to go turn on the subtitles or something are annoyingly long. Let me watch the DVD already! That said onto the review of the material itself. Torchwood is based around Captain Jack Harkness from the new Dr Who series and Torchwood the shadowy agency "outside the government, beyond the police" set up to capture and use alien artifacts. The (13) episodes themselves are a mix of suspence, horror, action and character building. One of them is 100% focused on character buidling of a characger thats just dull. Don't watch it (it's called "the alien eye" or something similar). Darker and with more 'adult' themes than Dr Who, Torchwood is clearly aimed at the adult audience, fair enough. Captain Jack is Gay, fair enough again except they keep on about his sexuality. Gee, OK, he's gay, can we have a episode where he doesn't kiss or shag someone? Or if he has to can we avoid lingering on it like it's the whole point of the episode? Otherwise it's enjoyable but not outstanding. I'm gald I watched it but in no hurry to buy season 2. Customer Rating: Summary: A nine O clock Doctor Who Comment: Torchwood with very adult style is brillent. The first series sparkled onto on BBC Three in October 2006 and the first two episodes rocked. With the crossover to Doctor Who in End Of Days was a true masterpiece and you can see the crossover in Upotipa the thrid season of Doctor Who. Despite not ever doing a post-watershed show Russell T Davies has done a fanastic job. Torchwood rocks Love the second series as well Customer Rating: Summary: Why can I not rate this a Zero. Comment: I have to say that Owen was almost an ok character, Yanto (or something like that I really don't care enough to check), Gwen's kind of man, Tosh (the hyper asian lady in AbFab whom I loved in that series), and Jack's ex where pretty ok done (Jack's ex being the mosty likable). Other than that the series is the most horrid peice of trash I have ever had the misfortune to download for free...I am so glad I had been downloading Who before buying the DVDs...I liked the actors, but after series one of the new ones it sarted losing something (good plots for one). Well I downloaded this because Jack may have been a bit horridly over played at times but I liked him in the first season because he was a neat change. Well they force the horrid fish eyed gap toothed Gwen on you right away with a voice that could peel paint out of a closed paint tin. As an actor she may be good, but they have her act slow and do these horrid stares at everything under the sun that makes her look a bit genetically disadvantaged. They force her as the main character for no good reason, run horrible plots that I would have been ashamed to write even when I was in the second grade...no really they are that bad. They put items laying around a building to be found in the future 60 years later and the person just happens to walk right up to where they had set them. It is torture to watch as a Who fan, it is horrid to watch as a person wanting to see Sci-Fi, if you want a good show with gay characters in it then watch The Wedding Banquet or V for Vendetta (I am looking at you Fry...darned fine actor). This series could have been great but it is the worst written series I have ever ever ever ever ever seen. And I watched Full House growing up. Do yourself a favor and download the first series...if you still want it then buy a PS3 and get the Blu-ray version...not because the Blu-Ray version is better, but because you are already throwing away your money, so you might as well do it in style. More Reviews