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Review of Fragments by dema1020

17 June 2025

This review contains spoilers!

Well, here it is.  My very last review of Torchwood TV.  It's been both fun and a bit of a nightmare revisiting this series, so I'm glad I'm able to close out on one of the best (if not the best) standalone episodes.  Fragments is really cool, featuring a number of flashbacks of each of the Torchwood team joining up with Jack's crew.  It's a particularly devastating thing to do in the midst of what feels like they are killing off the entire main cast and essentially ending the series as we know it.  This episode would be an easy 10/10 and a haunting memory - and in many ways it still is - but I do hit the same problem I always struggle with regarding Torchwood.  These characters have been presented as liars, cheaters, and date rapists.  It is really hard to fully sympathize with someone like Owen (or really anyone on the team) when they have been so thoroughly depicted as despicable people all in the name of having a show seem adult and mature.  Still, most of that can't be blamed on Fragments, which is solid TV and a great chapter in Torchwood history.  In a better show, this would be an episode of legends on the level of something like the Red Wedding.  As it stands, it is an interesting bit of trivia for the slightly more hardcore Doctor Who fans out there.


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