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Overview

First aired

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Production Code

1.5

Written by

Peter J. Hammond

Directed by

Alice Troughton

Runtime

47 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Cardiff, Earth, Wales

UK Viewers

1.26 million

Synopsis

Jack encounters monsters from his past: fairies, with the ability to choke people with rose petals and control the weather, make a series of killings centred around a little girl, the Chosen One. He also reunites with an old friend, but will Estelle Cole be safe when she starts to get a little too close to these fairies? And how can Torchwood stop a force from the dawn of time, masters of Earth, their domain? More importantly, what is so crucial about a little girl named Jasmine, for whom these creatures will gladly tear the world apart?

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Bit slow at times, and let down by the atrocious CGI, but all in all a solid fairy story that felt more Doctor Who than Torchwood. I liked the exploration we got of Jack's character a bit more


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IDK I just think evil potentially world-ending fairies are kinda rad.


A strange beast. Feels more like a Doctor Who episode than a Torchwood one, with the way it takes a sci-fi approach to a childhood fantastical concept (fairies). I like it a lot though, especially how we get more backstory for Jack.


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It's going to feel like I'm picking on Torchwood but I can assure my fellow fans I am largely getting a lot of the bad out of the way, knowing that an interesting side of this series is that though it struggled early on in quality, between Children of Earth, Miracle Day, and Big Finish, a lot of value was found in Torchwood, and even from days like this it was brimming with potential.

The problem is, I feel like I've seen this story done a lot better, elsewhere, so Small Worlds is kind of pointless and definitely unnecessarily edgy. The CGI and effects in general do not look great, and the acting gets similarly clumsy around it. If one wants a fun, adult take on fairies with a kind of horror sensibility to it, Supernatural definitely did that a lot better.


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[Woods]

(Night. A silver haired woman is making a recording.)

ESTELLE: I'm returning to the same spot. I do hope they're here. I have to move carefully. Don't want to frighten them. Now then. They are. They're here.

(Small but bright winged creatures are fluttering and giggling around a small stone circle.)

ESTELLE: My little darlings.


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