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Overview

First aired

Sunday, November 5, 2006

Production Code

1.4

Written by

Chris Chibnall

Directed by

James Strong

Runtime

50 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Canary Wharf, Cardiff, Earth, England, Wales

UK Viewers

1.39 million

Synopsis

Ianto has a dark secret, tied to the basement of the Hub — a secret he will protect at any cost: a semi-converted Cyberwoman! Will Torchwood Three fix things in time before the Cybermen, ripe from battle with their greatest enemy, the Doctor, convert the world?

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What gets me is that this had all the trappings of a good episode - the relationships between Ianto and Jack and Ianto and Lisa were highlights. Unfortunately, the rest of the episode. The Cyberwoman costume is, of course, horrific, the dehumanisation done to Torchwood's first black character is bad, and whatever the hell that scene in the cupboard(?) with Owen and Gwen was also bad. But there could have been something good there


IANTO #1! IANTO NATION FOREVER! I WOULD HAVE CONVERTED TONS OF HUMANS WITH YOU, AND KEPT YOU ALIVE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!


A missed opportunity. The ideas are there, but the execution falls flat. Poor writing and production decisions all around (Why does the Cyberwoman have boobs?, Why is Jack so surprised that the Cyberman is a woman when it's not that unusual?).


no one gets this episode like i do


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S1E4

Cyberwoman

 

7/10

 

Having rewatched this one again... Wow!

It's a very interesting episode, and the plot is engaging throughout. But it's very dark and horrifying!

The Cyberwoman design doesn't quite work for me, but I give it some leeway because the plot is decent.

Ianto dragging his half-converted girlfriend from a conversion chamber to Torchwood, setting up everything to keep her alive? That's so awful to live through! How long has she been down there?!

I like this as a character piece on Ianto, especially since we really don't know much about him other than he serves the coffee.

There's several times I was thinking "this can't get any worse, can it?" and it did!! Especially that poor pizza girl...

The only thing that bugs me about this episode is the consequences for Ianto. Shouldn't he be fired after this? Memory wiped of Torchwood? Some consequence? I don't recall anything about this after this episode. And here, at the end, it's not well addressed.

The perodactyl attacking the Cyberwoman? Ridiculous, I kinda love it.

And GDL's acting? It's pretty good. He plays it very traumatized, desperate. I don't get some complaints I've seen about his acting. I really enjoyed the scene between him and Barrowman holding him at gunpoint before sending him in to finish things.

I enjoyed watching it, and there's certainly other nitpicks and plot issues to point out, but I don't care enough to.

I think I'll need a short break from Torchwood after this one cause that was SO dark.


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JACK: Arkan leisure crawler, first generation. Collectors' item. Don't see many of those around these days. Tosh, send a polite message saying great to see them, but could they please get the hell out of our atmosphere, they're spooking the locals.

TOSH: Done.

GWEN: Shouldn't we be apprehending it? Investigating it?

JACK: Oh, please. You interrogate an Arkan, you'll be in there for a month. And that's just the first question. They are so boring. Besides, they're mostly made of liquid. The cells would be a mess.

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[Hub]

(Ianto comes down in the lift to a scene of chaos. The team are playing basketball, and the pterodactyl is trying to join in.)

OWEN: Okay. Come on, Gwen. Gwen, this is for you, baby. Come on.

(Jack gets the ball.)

OWEN: Just get it off him. Take it out of his hands. Oi.


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