To The Last Man

Oh dear, it's later than I thought it was. Never mind. Rambling about Torchwood at stupid o'clock, whilst making progressively less sense, is an old tradition. "To The Last Man", then. The second Torchie script from Helen Raynor, and there were certain echoes of her first one. Both episodes featured ghosts that weren't really ghosts, and both episodes featured a certain sense of tragedy. In "The Ghost Machine", which was the third episode of season one, just as this was the third episode of season two, the tragedy came from a murdered girl, and a broken man suffering for his crime. In "To The Last Man" it comes from Tommy (did they really have to call him that?!) mixed up in a time rift, and destined to die in front of a firing squad. Not sure why Helen Raynor would give him that fate. It felt like laying it on a bit thick at times, but it was a good episode, so I'll forgive that. The denouement was a little harder to forgive, but again, it was a good episode, and the ending didn't spoil that too much.

( More waffle this way... )