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Overview

First aired

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Production Code

2.10

Written by

Peter J. Hammond

Directed by

Jonathan Fox Bassett

Runtime

50 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Cardiff, Earth, Wales

UK Viewers

3.85 million

Synopsis

When an old cinema re-opens, past horrors emerge to stalk the streets of Cardiff. As bodies are found with heartbeats but no breath, Torchwood must act fast. Who are the Night Travellers? How can Torchwood capture these mysterious breath takers?

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This is a fantastically eery and suspenseful story; it's like a typical Doctor Who hide-behind-the-sofa episode, but in a spin-off rather than the main show itself. I love the concept of the Night Travellers (beings who steal your last breath) , and the use of the fairground music whenever the old film reel is being used is satisfyingly creepy, almost characterising the danger that the reel poses, a bit like how drum beats represent the Jumanji board game in Jumanji.

 

Those sequences when the people from the film reel come out of the big screen in the cinema is so cleverly done with the CGI work; it's sort of like watching a twisted version of Cinemagique from Disneyland Paris!

 

The Night Travellers MUST return in some form of Doctor Who or Torchwood fiction. They are EASILY one of the best monsters to come from one of the Doctor Who spin-offs; everything about them just oozes menace. They really capture your attention whenever they are on-screen, and they could easily come back in a Big Finish, a comic or in Doctor Who on TV, seeing as the end of the episode teases a return that so far has never happened.

 

Come on, Chibnall or Nicholas Briggs! Bring back the Night Travellers, one of you!


I appreciate Peter J Hammond might be an old school legend of British television but this entry suggests he was past it by this point in time - particularly stagey writing throughout.


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CHRISTINA: Your eyes are older than your face.

JACK: Is that a bad thing?

CHRISTINA: Yes. It means you don't belong. It means you're from nowhere.

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[The Joshua Joy Travelling Show]

(Couples in 1920s or 30s style clothing are walking to a fair. Test your strength, strongmen, jugglers, all the traditional stuff.)

GHOSTMAKER: Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, have we got a show for you tonight! A once in a lifetime show. Amaze your ears, astonish your eyes, then run along home and tell your friends and neighbours. A once in a lifetime show, never to be forgotten for the rest of your lives. So, why not step inside?

(The man dressed as the Ringmaster hands a ticket to a little girl, who is with her mother.)

GHOSTMAKER: We're waiting for you.


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