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Post by matthewsee on May 17, 2019 5:22:06 GMT
6.3 God Among Us: See No Evil:
Cardiff gets a citywide blackout thanks to a creature known as the Predator.
Even though the Predator was fleeting in its appearance, the episode presents a chilling atmosphere of the impact that it has caused as the characters concerned make their way through the darkness and it was literally seeing no evil.
Shocking cliffhanger by how this episode ended.
Fittingly enough listened to this twice in the darkness and not knowing what this was going to be about the first time around.
See No Evil is one of the phrases relating to the three monkeys and speaking of which I always do monkey business with my wife Karen Gillan.
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Post by matthewsee on May 27, 2019 6:56:29 GMT
6.4 God Among Us: Night Watch:
Jacqueline King (Donna's mum Sylvia) gets to play God here, what God Among Us alluded to, and what an interesting interaction she had with Orr in the midst of the Black Sun.
The Black Sun sure made this episode an unusual listen as the Black Sun made people go to sleep and doing strange things.
Quite a cliffhanger by who turns up and after a certain misdirection about it.
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 18, 2019 14:15:18 GMT
Visiting Hours:
Visiting Hours is the opener of the third Big Finish season.
Written by David Llewellyn and released in March 2017.
Starring Kai Owen as Rhys.
Also starring Nerys Hughes as Rhys' mother Brenda reprising the character she first and previously played in Something Borrowed.
Read from TARDIS Wiki, this is the last of five Big Finish episodes set and released between Miracle Day & Aliens Among Us.
Rhys visits Brenda in the hospital just as visiting hours are about to be wrapped up.
Rhys however has been given an exception to stay after visiting hours.
It was after visiting hours Rhys and Brenda observed strange going ons by people known as The Cleaners.
This is a fascinating episode as it presents the relationship between Brenda and Rhys as mother and son in the midst of The Cleaners' activities at the hospital and with Rhys being the headliner of this episode.
Fascinating on how Rhys deals with a situation normally handled by Torchwood and with wife Gwen nowhere near here.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 2, 2019 15:00:57 GMT
6.6 God Among Us: Hostile Environment:
Written by Ash Darby, a Torchwood newcomer.
This episode mostly features Tyler.
Ng and Mr Colchester helps out along the way while Andy, Yvonne, Norton and Jack also pops up briefly.
Hostile Environment suddenly has Tyler out on the streets as a homeless person and it involved an app that allows people to tag the homeless for the purpose of helping them.
However it was anything but.
This is a compelling commentary on the homeless and Jonny Green delivered it superbly as the hoimeless Tyler.
As a homeless person, Tyler finds that he has little or no choice of what he has to do especially the choices given to him by the drone.
A key point to the episode was the efforts Tyler goes to in order to buy a phone.
This is hardly a priority for any homeless person but it works well on how this episode played out.
Tyler's efforts in getting money for the phone is the same in how my wife Karen Gillan got a little money in her short film Conventional.
I do the same to her but I do it for free because she is my wife and I love her.
With Tyler being homeless he is declared invisible to society. This is similar in premise to a Twilight Zone episode To See The Invisible Man about a man sentenced to social isolation for a year meaning that for this sentence, society is not allow to interact with him.
Coincidentally I am watching the fourth and final season of The Thick of It and has as a focus an unseen homeless man Douglas Tickel and his ultimate suicide.
Like Tickel, Tyler stayed in a tent for a little while but unlike Tickel, Tyler comes out of this still alive.
After listening to Hostile Environment I saw Friday The 13th 1.4 A Cup of Time which coincidentally also has the homeless as key plot point.
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 18, 2019 2:35:07 GMT
6.8 God Among Us: Eye of the Storm:
Written by David Llewellyn.
Eye of the Storm is what the Doctor said in Last of the Time Lords which Jack was present for.
This Torchwood episode literally involves a storm.
What starts off this episode was Andy calling Torchwood when he found stone people in a boat.
The boat has Mermaid in its name and I have been watching the TV series Siren which coincidentally is about mermaids.
The stone people is soon forgotten about as I personally was reminded of them when I listened to this the second time.
Intriguing that after the stone people this leads into a submersible.
Flight 405 is brought up here and oh my how it came to play here.
Eye of the Storm marked the end of Part 2 of God Among Us.
The climax certainly got dropped here including a tidal wave.
Just as Torchwood were investigating this got neatly complemented by a conversation between God and The Committee as an explanation what has been happening and what come next after this episode.
That epilogue was certainly surprising and it is akin to a key aspect of Day of the Daleks.
During this episode Mr Colchester made the analogy about waiting for pizza. Thank you Mr Llewellyn for writing this in as it made me get pizza on my own for the first time. Truly a proud milestone for me.
Mr Colchester also mentioned Chernobyl. Eye of the Storm along with the entire God Among Us 2 was released in February 2019, three months before the Chernobyl mini-series detailing that tragic real life nuclear disaster.
Even though Eve Myles isn't here as Gwen, I saw her in the season 2 opener of her series Keeping Faith and it played a song which coincidentally included the words "eye of the storm."
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 27, 2019 12:29:24 GMT
6.11 God Among Us: Day Zero:
Penultimate episode of season 6.
Written by Tim Foley.
The said day is when Cardiff has run out of water but Orr has become the unexpected source of fresh water.
Horrifying but also fascinating of Day Zero of presenting humanity at its worst when wanting to have water.
Jack tells Yvonne that she is not on his Christmas list. Coincidentally listened to this twice on Christmas 2019 and these days NuWho is lacking Christmas Specials.
Amusing when Ng says about the big guns...literally.
Stunning revelation that it was Tyler who brought Colchester back from the dead.
Enthralling when God got surrounded, Yvonne being taken and shocking what happens to Jack, has the unthinkable happen to him all this as God Among Us is about to reach its end.
Reading on TARDIS Wiki I was surprised when it stated Sgt Andy as the Main Enemy.
Sure this presented him in an antagonistic but didn't think this qualify him as being the enemy.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 14, 2020 10:27:36 GMT
Outbreak: Stage Two Prodromal: Love:
This has Norton Folgate turning and what a friction he caused between Jack and Ianto.
Rather intriguingly the premise of love explored in this episode becomes very deadly as Jack due to a certain influence attempts to kill Ianto.
Quite fascinating and horrifying Norton's explanation about the patients especially the antidote for them.
Norton said that Jack looked like Boris Karloff. Coincidentally recent to this I had finished the Thriller (1960-62) TV series hosted by Boris Karloff.
Elsewhere it was funny when Rhys deliberately caused a panic with his fellow drivers including not so subtlety asked them if they know what a dirty bomb is!
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 4, 2021 3:35:09 GMT
Rhys & Ianto’s Excellent Barbecue:
Rhys & Ianto’s Excellent Barbecue is the eighth episode of the sixth Big Finish Torchwood season.
Released in November 2020 and written by Tim Foley.
Undoubtedly the title is a play on Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Whether it is coincidental or not and given the title, this came about three months after the release of the third Bill & Ted movie Bill & Ted Face the Music.
Rhys holds a barbecue for his friends when Ianto turned up having been asked to do so by Gwen.
The barbecue it turns out is a wake for a friend of Rhys who had recently died.
Overall not bad to pass the time just like with any barbecue, although it has been quite since I last attended one.
As Rhys and Ianto encounters the problem with the barbecue that came up here a mysterious caller came in the midst of this, a caller is not exactly what he seems.
Also quite emotional when Rhys talks about the said reason for the barbecue.
This episode has the involvement of a time bubble.
Coincidentally this came about a couple of months before Jack was in Revolution of the Daleks in which he employed a time bubble to rescue the Doctor and coincidentally I was listening to Rhys & Ianto's Excellent Barbecue when Revolution of the Daleks came on.
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Post by matthewsee on May 4, 2021 9:15:35 GMT
Drive:
Drive is the penultimate episode of the sixth Torchwood Big Finish season.
Starring Naoko Mori as Tosh
Written by David Llewellyn.
This episode is notable for providing the Big Finish producing debut by Emily Cook, the creator of the Doctor Who: Lockdown event.
Drive refers to the taxi that Tosh takes and employs the help of its taxi driver Fawzia.
Fawzia is played by Suzanne Packer and I could not believe Fawzia was played by the same person who played General Eve Cicero in The Tsuranga Conundrum in the Doctor Who episodes as her two characters are nothing alike.
With Fawzia's help, Tosh tracks down someone for his unsafe use of a teleporter.
This is an enthralling adventure and Tosh and Fawzia makes for a good team.
In fact it is this team up between Tosh and Fawzia is the main reason for my enjoyment of this story before it reaches its resolution.
Fawzia also makes a couple of jokes to Tosh which I am not sure was that funny.
A very good episode and definitely a very good vehicle (pun may or may not have been intended) for Emily Cook's Big Finish producing debut.
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Post by matthewsee on Dec 3, 2022 10:33:37 GMT
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 29, 2023 9:25:32 GMT
The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello:
The Last Love Song of Suzie Costello is the third episode of the ninth Torchwood Big Finish season.
As indicated in the episode this stars Indira Varma as Suzie Costello.
Written by Rafaella Marcus.
This is set sometime before Everything Changes when Suzie was a member of Torchwood and was alive.
This has Suzie going into the sea where discovered a spaceship and what she sees there.
Quite intriguing by what Suzie uncovers in this spaceship under the sea and the conversations that took place before she ultimately gets back to dry land.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 8, 2023 1:55:44 GMT
A Postcard from Mr Colchester:
A Postcard from Mr Colchester is a special release from September 2022.
This has Paul Clayton delivering a one hander as Mr Colchester.
It has Mr Colchester recording a message as he gives his assessment on the state of Earth and it is not a very good assessment.
This quite a grim little tale delivered by Mr Colchester that is very haunting and creepy from his said assessment of Earth and all the while giving the reminder the purpose of Torchwood.
After all that is how the world keeps on going and this is an enjoyable reminder of that.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 30, 2024 1:56:57 GMT
Dog Hop:
Dog Hop is the seventh episode of the ninth Torchwood season.
Starring Tom Price as Andy Davidson.
Released in September 2023 and written by Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle.
Andy stumbled in a case about the brains of people being said to be implanted in dogs as part of an experiment.
This episode completely baffled me and I could not get it to gel with me at all.
Basically I could not make heads or tails (perhaps pun unconsciously intended) of this episode and I could not feel any resolution was achieved at all.
Listen to it twice but I am not in any of the wiser of a story that felt very frustrating.
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