This episode that it is pretty well regarded by Torchwood fans and while it did get my attention on initial viewing, it hardly blew me away, either. I never really had that reaction to this episode much, but agree it does hold up pretty well. In my initial viewing of the series, I was so burnt out and uninterested in Owen's character by this point that this trilogy kind of threw me off. I do like the content, it's just a little hard to ignore how dark of a place they started Owen with in this series. It's hard for me to really feel as much sympathy for Owen as I should, but at least here, to Torchwood's credit, that's kind of the point. Owen doesn't really deserve this resurrection and it is far from a pleasant experience. I was impressed by the show's willingness to change one of their characters so severely and they don't really walk it back, which was cool. To the show's credit, I really had no idea how far they'd be willing to go for the rest of Series 2.

It feels like Martha wasn't very well used here, but her appearance was still welcome enough. I wish she was used more or just joined the team here though. That would have been fun. I don't really like the effects much and the way it was filmed was just kind of okay for me.