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Overview

First aired

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Production Code

3.3

Written by

James Moran, Russell T Davies

Directed by

Euros Lyn

Runtime

60 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

The 456

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Cardiff, Earth, England, London, Wales

UK Viewers

6.4 million

Synopsis

The eyes of the world turn to Britain. The 456 announce: "We are here," as the new Torchwood adventure continues. A pillar of fire descends upon London and Torchwood must battle to protect their own families as the fight gets personal. Will Clem's memories destroy everything?

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Torchwood: Children of Earth

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Torchwood: Series 1-3

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Another solid chapter in Children of Earth.  A lot is just devoted to keeping up that build-up to the big moves coming next episode, but this entry on its own is pretty great at ratcheting up that tension and political bleakness.  A solid entry in Torchwood overall.

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This part if anything has only got more topical in 2020. The stuff about the schools being closed and a curfew being put in place sounds so much like the Coronavirus pandemic, and sending John Frobisher to deal with the 456 because they see him as expendable is totally something you could see our current government doing.

 

I love that our Torchwood team have to turn to a crime of thievery in order to survive whilst on the run, and that twist where Jack originally gave kids in the 60s to the 456 is still one of the very best in sci-fi history. It's so shocking to see a character we all know and love having stooped so low in the past. Somebody who we always think of as being on the right side in the fight against aliens.

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[Warehouse]

(Ianto breaks the lock on the door and they all go inside.)

IANTO: This is us. This is Torchwood. This is home.
LOUISE MINCHIN [on TV]: The children promised tomorrow and tomorrow is here. Our correspondents have been measuring the situation in Australia
REPORTER [on TV]: Le President a declare avoir ordonné la fermeture de nos écoles.
TRINITY WELLS [on TV]: The Senate have pointed out that we are now living in fear of our children. In fear of what they will say next. In fear of who or what is speaking through them.

(Rhys starts a fire in a barrel. They have an old settee to sit on.)

RHYS: Whoa! Almost lost my eyebrows. Still, good for something, see? Old Boy scout.
GWEN: I'm freezing.
RHYS: Is anyone gonna see us in here, you know, with all this firelight and stuff?
IANTO: It was abandoned in the nineties. It used to be a Torchwood holding facility. Torchwood One.
JACK: Rusting away for years.
GWEN: So what do we do, hmm? Just sit here?
JACK: Worse than that, do I have to stay in these clothes? I mean, come on. Tracksuit bottoms? Not a good look.
GWEN: Jack, they're arriving today. That alien voice thing said today, and we're stuck in the back end of beyond.
JACK: Yeah. But we're together, the old team. We're down, but not out, yeah? We've survived worse than this.
GWEN: Yeah.
JACK: Besides, I don't know how much fighting you should do in your condition.
RHYS: What's that mean?
GWEN: (sotto) Christ, Jack.
RHYS: He knows you're pregnant? You told him before me, didn't you?
GWEN: Rhys, he just happened to be there, and it happened really, really fast.
RHYS: Last to know. Last to bloody know. Well thank you very much.
GWEN: Don't be stupid, man. Hey, don't be so

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