Stories Television Torchwood Series 2 Torchwood Series 2 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Something Borrowed 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 4 Statistics Quotes Transcript Overview First aired Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Production Code 2.9 Written by Phil Ford Directed by Ashley Way Runtime 46 minutes Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQA+, Pregnancy, Shape Shifting, Wedding Location (Potential Spoilers!) Cardiff, Earth, Wales UK Viewers 3.75 million Synopsis Gwen Cooper is about to get married to her fiancé Rhys. Only one problem: on her honeymoon night she is bitten by an alien and wakes on her wedding day heavily pregnant with a shape-shifter's baby. The alien mother is on the loose and searching for its offspring. The only way for the alien to get the egg is to rip open its carrier, Gwen... Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Gwen Cooper Nostrovite Captain Jack Harkness Rhys Williams Owen Harper Toshiko Sato Ianto Jones Geraint Cooper First Appearance Mary Cooper First Appearance Brenda Williams First Appearance Show All Characters (10) How to watch Something Borrowed: Watch on iPlayer DVD Torchwood: The Complete Second Series DVD Torchwood: The Complete Series One & Two Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 4 reviews 30 August 2024 · 122 words Review by MarkOfGilead19 Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Don't know what to say, I had a blast watching this episode. I was laughing at every interaction between the characters confronting the surrealness of it all. It's 46 minutes of the team trying to prevent Gwen's wedding from going horribly, and, obviously, failing catastrophically. Yes, this is not a profound or thought provoking episode, but that's the point. We just had 2 episodes of pure sadness and death, so this is just a great palate cleanser. So yeah, I see I'm in a minority here, but I loved it, will rewatch when I want to just have fun and don't think too hard. This is what's great about Doctor Who, you can have tonally different episodes follow one another and it just works. Like Liked 1 7 August 2024 · 95 words Review by WhoPotterVian Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! This has all the failings of the bad episodes from Series 1. It's trying too hard to shout 'Look at us, we're the adult Doctor Who!' by throwing in alien blowjobs and pregnancies, and it just comes across a bit gross. It's very corny too; I mean, in one scene the alien shapeshifter poses as Rhys's mother and comes out with such laughably cliche'd lines like 'Rhys, you're a bad boy. And you know what bad boys get?'. The best parts are the wedding itself. The alien shapeshifter plot is just cringe overload. Like Liked 1 6 June 2024 · 176 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! It's not the worst Torchwood episode, but it's not good and definitely feels like a step back towards the first Torchwood series. It feels like a very silly use of sci-fi tropes when I was actually excited to get into a story about Rhys and Gwen. These two have had a rocky relationship to say the least so I figured this would be a way to build them back up together again, while acknowledging this should mean a change in the status quo. It felt like it should have been a big moment, with Rhys becoming more integrated with Torchwood and now him fully committed to Gwen, this should signify some sort of change in the characters and their lives. And while that is, to a degree, true of the larger show, Something Borrowed feels we make a bunch of jokes that I just didn't find funny and we're left with an episode I simply did not find purpose in. It feels especially out of place after such a heavy trilogy of episodes dealing with Owen. Like Liked 1 28 May 2024 · 30 words Review by Rock_Angel 2 Love a Gwen episode and this was a perfect Gwen episode honestly such a good story I feel all of the torchwood team come together for her in this one Like Liked 2 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating240 members 3.32 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating263 votes 3.88 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating52 votes 3.40 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 670 Favourited 20 Reviewed 4 Saved 3 Skipped 0 Owned 6 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote Transcript Needs checking [Previously] JACK: What's this?GWEN: That's an engagement ring, that is.JACK: You're getting married?GWEN: Yes. Rhys asked.JACK: And you said yes.GWEN: Well, no one else will have me. I need stability, Jack. Someone I can rely on. [Disco] (Friday night. The music is loud, the lights flashing and the party girls are all in pink fur-trimmed stetsons and matching red t-shirts.) MEGAN: Oh, it's the service she's meant to be late for, not her hen do. Where is she?TRINA: There she is!BOTH: (singing) Here comes the bride, looking for a ride. Here comes the bride, lads, she'll take it up the aisle!MEGAN: Ey, I thought you'd bottled it.GWEN: No, I had a lot on at work. Show Full Transcript Open in new window