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Being a member of Torchwood carries a tremendous risk
what else can explain the high death rate of members. The
third series of “Torchwood” finds the team reduced to a
trio on the run and trying to stop an alien race known only
as 456 from blackmailing the human race into giving up 10%
of the world’s population of children. The big question
is WHY the aliens want with them and WHAT is Jack’s (John
Barrowman continues to be completely charming giving a terrific
performance ) role in all of this. ***
Unquestionably the best episodes of the series with
a terrific and moving story “Torchwood: Children of Earth”
moves along at a breakneck pace during its brief third season.
Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd)
remain the only two members of Torchwood active. ---
Image & Sound:
“Torchwood” receives a “stellar” transfer for Blu-ray.
The earlier seasons were a bit problematic in DVD (I haven’t
seen the Blu-rays for seasons one or two yet so can’t comment
on those)and I had a bad feeling that this might be inferior
as well but Time-Warner has done a commendable job with
the show. ***
Audio sounds brilliant throughout as well with dialogue
front and center. A problem with some earlier DVDs of “Doctor
Who” (and, if I recall correctly, the first season of “Torchwood”
on DVD) was that the music and sound effects would often
overwhelm the dialogue in the 5.1 mixes. That’s not the
case here. ---
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