Torchwood - The Complete First Season

starring: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori, Gareth David-Lloyd See Larger Image List Price: $79.98 You Pay Only: $54.99 You Save: $24.99 (31%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0794051420527 Format: Color, NTSC Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 7 Publisher: BBC Warner Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 22, 2008 Running Time: 650 minutes Sales Rank: 645 Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Related Items: Doctor Who - The Complete Third Series Torchwood - The Complete Second Season Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series Doctor Who - The Complete First Series Doctor Who - Destiny of the Daleks (Episode 104) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Separate from the government outside the police beyond the United Nations Torchwood sets its own rules. Led by the enigmatic ever watchful Captain Jack Harkness the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. Everyone who works for Torchwood is young. Some say that?s because it?s a new science. Others say it?s because they die young.Running Time: 650 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 794051420527 Manufacturer No: E4205 Amazon.com: More than a spin-off of the Russell T. Davies incarnation of Doctor Who, the BBC series Torchwood is a wholly enjoyable blend of drama, science-fiction thrills, and mature subject matter that never fails to deliver its main purpose: to entertain on a weekly basis. John Barrowman, who captured the imagination of Who fans during the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant eras as 51st-century adventurer Capt. Jack Harkness, returns as the dashing, immortal time traveler; here, he's the head of Torchwood, a covert organization that investigates extraterrestrial and supernatural events on Earth without the help of the British government or United Nations. Eve Myles is a police constable who joins the team after discovering them in the middle of bringing a stabbing victim back to life (in the debut episode, 'Everything Changes'), and she brings a decidedly human touch to the Torchwood team's tech-driven investigations. Among the mysteries encountered over the course of the 13-episode series: an alien gas that absorbs humans during sex ('Day One'); a half-human, half-Cyberman female with a connection to Torchwood support man Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) in 'Cyberwoman'; a rash of cannibalistic murders ('Countrycide'); a very different kind of fairies than the ones of legend ('Small Worlds'); and most impressively of all, a skyscraper-sized demon that threatens to plunge the Torchwood team--and the world itself--into chaos ('End of Days,' which features an off-screen cameo by a certain Time Lord). What separates Torchwood from the most modern television science fiction (save, say, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica) is the frankly adult tone of the series: The violence is plentiful and occasionally graphic, and there are frequent bedroom couplings between the team members and supporting players. There's also a maturity to the relationships that exceeds the usual scope of sci-fi, most notably in the affecting 'Captain Jack Harkness,' which sends him back to the London Blitz, where he meets and falls in love with a handsome American pilot who happens to share his name. Their love affair, like the majority of Torchwood's 'grown-up' storylines, is handled with taste and real emotion. Extras on the First Series are remarkably plentiful; six of the seven discs include entirely new behind-the-scenes featurettes that explore the main characters and their major story arcs, location shooting, the impressive SUV that the team drives, and the show's extensive special effects and alien creations. Barrowman also contributes a very funny 'Captain's Log,' which invites viewers to join him on one of the final shooting days of the series. The entire seventh disc is given over to Torchwood Declassified, the 13-part program which explored each episode on BBC Three and the BBC's Torchwood website. Commentaries are offered for all 13 episodes, with Davies, Barrowman, Myles, Burn Gorman (who plays Torchwood's medical officer, Owen Harper), David-Lloyd, producers Richard Stokes and Julie Gardner, and various episode writers, directors, and producers all lending their voices. A small battery of deleted scenes and outtakes, as well as previews for DVD releases of other BBC programs, including Doctor Who and MI-5, round out this impressive set. --Paul Gaita Stills from Torchwood (click for larger image) Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Most Refreshing New SciFi In Decades This show is incredable! From the first introduction of Gwen, Jack, and the rest of the Torchwood crew, the action is fast-paced and action packed. Every episode seems longer than it actually is because of the sheer AMOUNT of story the writers and actors are able to pack into each segment. The characters are real, beleivable, and sympathetic. Captain Jack Harkness, played by stage and TV actor John Barrowman, is charismatic, cryptic, mysterious, and absolutely ruthless is carrying out the mission at hand, wether it's capturing a "weevil", romancing a coworker, or executing a member of the Torchwood team who's become corrupted by alien technology. This series has several Dr. Who tie-ins, from the introduction of Jack Harkness in Season 1, to Jack joining the Doctor and Martha in Season 3 of Doctor Who, which on Jacks timeline occurs at the end of Season 1 and the start of Season 2 on Torchwood. There are also multiple episodes and references to Torchwood (albeit Torchwood London, which is not connected to Torchwood Cardiff, due to a breakaway alluded to by Jack but never fully explained, at least not yet) throughout Seasons 2 and 3 of DW. The budget for this show must be generous, as illustrated by detailed alien makeup effects, and by the Hub (Torchwood headquarters, concealed beneath the Millenium Center in Cardiff, Wales). Numerous locations in and around Cardiff are featured as part of the action, including generous slices of ordinary life for the people of Cardiff, who ... Read More Rating: - If you liked the Mystery Science 3000 movies, this is for you!!!!! I read the other reviews here, and I'll admit it, they suckered me in. Mentioning CSI, and more importantly Firefly with this series is defamation of character. The special effects are so bad that I went back to look at the box to make sure this wasn't released in the 80's. The first episode was the best, after that I could only muscle through another 5 episodes, each one getting more stilted, and boring, and far fetched. I am a geek, so maybe a little tough, but REALLY, this is about the quality of "Earnest goes to (Space) Camp". Save your money, I'll give you mine!! Like I said, if you liked the movies on MS 3000 and couldn't understand why they were picking on them, buy this. Rating: - Torchwood - SciFi with Guts and Style This Doctor Who spin-off is just as ingenious as the latest incarnations of Doctor Who. Torchwood gives us characters with depth and humanity, that battle against the odds on an almost daily basis, while being quite obviously vulnerable and fallible, as we also often see the elements of their personal lives play out amidst the "challenges" posed by the many and varied alien threats. Torchwood is also not without its commentaries on our society today, in that sometimes the "threat" is not alien, but humans that are so twisted and evil that they are in actuality quite in-human (and thus filling the role expected of "hostile aliens"). Yes, we cannot help but reminisce about certain episodes of the X-Files, if we are also familiar with that series. Russell T. Davies, who also brought us the latest incarnation of Doctor Who, has done an awesome job of bringing us a darker trek into the sci-fi genre, making excellent use of his talent for creative plots, character development, great special effects (on a budget), and much more! He also provides us with a perspective that can be quite thought-provoking, as we consider the world of today (here on Earth), and the possibilities that the future may hold for human-kind. If there is intelligent life "out there", will we really be ready for our contacts with it, when it finally does happen??? How much of the world's population today, is actually ready to live respectfully, harmoniously, and appropriately with their own "neighbors" on this tiny ... Read More Rating: - NOT Doctor Who thats for sure Torchwood is Russell t Davies great gay experiment. Instead of making straight forward science fiction he throws in his gay agenda which kills the show. Dont get me wrong i like the character of captain jack but do we really need to see every episode his gay escapades or other gay characters? I understand rtd is gay and his political agenda is clear in Torchwood. What comes out is this dark and i mean dark sci fi with so muc hsexual and gay undertones that no way you could ever let kids watch this. the bbc is way to liberal and though at times its good sci fi its drowned out by all the sick gay aspects. Rating: - Not a bad first season. It needs some work though. So instead of buying this set, I rented from my local library. Now I'm glad I did. The show itself is very good, but it has its flaws. Yes there is sex and violence, and really bad language, but there is a point to it, sometimes. I feel that the violence and sex is in there, just to push the envelope in a few episodes. However as the show progressed, the writers use it for storytelling purposes, which in my opinion, is better then just having all that stuff to have it. The actual DVDs themselves I have a problem with. I think this is because I'm use to the sets we get here, where we have 4 episodes per disc. This set only has 2, and a few short features per disc. Not that is a bad thing, but I would have liked it if the manufactures had worked on the disc design. Also, when you chose a new menu, you have to wait through a 5 second montage of Torchwood. Which is kind of fun first time around, but by the 3rd disc, it's annoying. The episodes are pretty good for the most part. The only clunkers I can think are the first few of them. Say episodes 1-4. But I do feel by episode 5 and 6, the writer go into the rhythm of the show, and that is where we see some great stand out episodes. The acting in some episodes is a bit off, to me. John Barrowman's delivery seems a bit forced, but then I'm guessing he was trying to back in the character. As for the other actors, I haven't seen the other work, so I cannot say that this is their best or worst. But for 75% of the episodes they deliver, so that is ... Read More More Torchwood - The Complete First Season Reviews Browse for similar items by category: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Genres - DVD - Video - General Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General BBC - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All BBC Titles T - TV Series By Letter - TV Series - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - Torchwood ( M ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Mori, Naoko

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