At San Diego Comic-Con Big Shiny Robot! had the chance to interview the cast of Torchwood. Last week we put up our interview with John Barrowman. Today, we have the very brief interview with Bill Pullman about Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Bill Pullman might be best known in the geek set for his portrayal of Lone Starr in Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs. In Torchwood: Miracle Day he plays a pedophiliac murderer who was sentenced to death on Miracle Day. Through loopholes in the law he’s set free and becomes something of an unlikely folk hero.

Without further ado:

Q: Are you worried your character is first to die or will die?

A: Being someone who was robbed from death’s grip, there’s a lot of attendant feelings about that. As you could imagine, I don’t think I’m spoiling, there is constantly a feeling of thankfullness and feeling undeserving. Maybe these are operative or subconscious things. That’s what is a special connection between Oswald and Jack Harkness.

Q: How has the reaction to your sinister performance been?

A: It clogs the wheels. This “You’re the bad guy in this movie” kind of talk is a yolk. His point isn’t to be sinister. I think sometimes people are scary.

Q: Is there any redmeption for Oswald Danes?

A: Yes. There’s a great potential there. He’s offered it. He’s of incredible intelligence and self-effacing. He knows his own baggage. He’s not bound in fear.

Q: What was the spark that made you decide this part was something you wanted to do?

A: I hear the voice in the writing. This knows itself. It’s a concoction. It’s an ambitious mother-fucker. I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching. I’m going to risk things. Exploding tension with the possibility that a laugh increases it.

I didn’t even finish reading the first three scripts and I didn’t even finish the second one. I got it before Christmas and reading I was like, “This is Christmas for me.” It’s like opening a present.

And that’s when he had to move on to the next interview which will appear on the site tomorrow. We have Alexa Havins and Mekhi Phifer. Before the end of the week we’ll have our review with Gwen Cooper herself: Eve Myles.

At the San Diego Comic-Con, I had the extreme pleasure of doing some roundtable interviews with the cast of Torchwood: Miracle Day. They’ll be appearing here on the site over the course of the next week.

Barrowman was dressed for Comic-Con in an Iron-Man T-shirt and was just incredibly pleasant to be around. He has an easy charm that you can’t help but like. And he might be one of the most energetic people after a day of interviews I’ve ever encountered. So, without further ado:

Q: How much bigger was Torchwood: Miracle Day than the other iterations?

A: You can see from television, the production value is bigger. I don’t want to negate what we did with BBC, we did a fantastic job, but we have a bigger budget. To be honest, without STARZ, there wouldn’t be Torchwood. We’re still on BBC 1, so that’s where our roots are, but this is just bigger.

Q: What does Jack feel about his newfound mortality?

A: You find out what he prefers better. He’s experiencing new things and it’s different. I don’t like giving out spoilers and I don’t want to spoil it. But Jack, you find out which one he prefers and which one he wants. How he gets it? Who gives it to him? What happens? I’m not going to tell you. Before he had the dilemma he didn’t like being a mortal and now all of a sudden he’s a mortal and he’s experiencing all of these things and there comes a point where decisions and choices are made.

Q: What about the controversy surrounding the censored sex scene?

A: There really wasn’t a controversy. Russell decided to cut it for pretty straightforward reasons. He didn’t want to push it too far because people would be watching with kids and would probably change the channel. The papers in the UK had to print a retraction because they mis-quoted me from an interview I did months ago and took my quotes out of context. I fully support the decision that was made.

But it’s not gone. And this man falls in love and this man has a passionate romance with this other man and, like everybody else does, the sex happens and there’s a wonderful lovemaking scene and it’s a great scene. I’m proud of it. If I saw that as a young man and saw that on TV that you could have a loving relationship like that, it would have helped.

And they cut down Mekhi and Arlene’s scene, too.

And there’s a love story. The love story doesn’t start until episode five. That’s where the romance is, in a flashback. The only real time stuff in that episode you’ve got there is the real time stuff between Jack and Gwen.

Q: With the mortality, does that change the Dr. Who? Aren’t you supposed to become the Face of Boe?

A: No. We’re not dictated by the rules of what was created before. I’d like to think that Jack becomes the face of Boe, but who’s to say they won’t lob my head off in the next episode?

And that was the end of the all-too brief interview. Lots of interesting tidbits in there, to be certain. They’re not tied to the constraints of Dr. Who and the Face of Boe? What does that imply for the series? Barrowman also said that they hope there will be more seasons and implied it all comes down to how well this season does. So if you like Torchwood, be sure to support it now as best you can and don’t pirate it. Watch it in a way that will let STARZ count you.

New episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day are shown on STARZ on Friday nights.

And here is the Torchwood preview shown at Comic-Con:

Imagine a world where you can’t die. Sure, you can suffer from disease, be shot, get wounded horribly, but you can’t die. You’re immortal, just not invulnerable. Now imagine a world where that’s the case for everyone in the world. No one can die.

This poses a significant threat to the way the world works. Pretty quickly we’d run out of food, space, medicine, everything.

Well, Rex Matheson, a rogue agent in the CIA played by Mekhi Phifer, believes that the only people who can deal with this threat is Torchwood. Despite an ordinarily fatal wound, he sets out to get the band back together to solve this mystery, by force if he has to.

That’s sort of a problem for Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles), the adorable Welsh cop and former Torchwooder. She has a baby now and is pretty determined to stay away from any single human being that isn’t her husband. And she especially wants to stay away from the former head of Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), because when he shows up people always seem to die.

STARZ is premiering this new mini-series to an American audience on Friday, July 8th, and my guess is that the majority of the audience won’t have any idea what the hell Torchwood is. I don’t think that’s a bad thing, exactly. This show is put together in a way that allows new viewers to learn about Torchwood along side the American CIA agents and I think people will really love it. They sprinkle in enough information about Torchwood to be a wink to fans and a tantalizing clue for new viewers. In the end, I think even just this first episode will have new viewers scrambling to watch the BBC produced seasons, as well they should.

I’ve had a chance to watch the first three episodes of this 10 episode story and I think the suspense from week to week through the end might kill me. These first episodes throw a lot of balls in the air and only barely hint at what might be going on. But what is going on seems to be incredible.

One of the most interesting balls in the air is Oswald Danes (played by Bill Pullman who is creepy and will win awards for this part), a man executed for raping a little girl. The problem is that he’s executed on Miracle Day and survives and is let loose. The media eats his story up and he’s introduced to a PR rep, Jilly Kitzinger (Lauren Ambrose), who seems to be up to no good. It’s too early to tell where this is going exactly, but you can tell right off it will play a major part in the unravelling of the Miracle Day mystery, aside from the fact that if it didn’t it probably wouldn’t be included at all.

It’s hard trying to come up with new ways of saying how great this show and the entire Doctor Who universe is. This show has everything a Doctor Who/Torchwood fan could want and it is incredibly compelling to a new viewer. The science fiction concepts are first rate, the acting is top notch, the dilemmas nerve-wracking, and the cliffhangers are nail-biters.

As always, though, the show stealer is John Barrowman’s Captain Jack. Captain Jack is an immortal who first appeared in the first season of the Doctor Who relaunch. He’s a rogue and a scoundrel and he’s a complete omnisexual. If it’s attractive, it doesn’t matter if it’s male or female, alien or human, he is attracted to it. Many were worried that putting the show on American television would require his charisma and sexuality to be toned down. Never fear. He’s the Jack we all know and love and somehow he seems even more endearing.

More than anything I can say about the show is that it’s just dramatic in all the right ways. It kicks ass. It moves from episode to episode blowing your mind and your expectations out of the water. It’s Torchwood, only turned up to 11.

I really hope the series does well and attracts a lot of viewers. Not only do I want to see more seasons of this flawlessly produced show, I want to see more fans of the Doctor Who/Torchwood mythos. And since ALL of it is on Netflix Instant Streaming, there really isn’t an excuse for anyone who sees this show and likes it.

The premiere episode, The New World, airs on STARZ Friday, July 8th at 10:00pm ET/PT. As for me, I’ll be watching it again, dying for the next new episode.

Wonderbot is back (so soon?) with her review of “A Good Man Goes to War”

**Bigtime Spoilers. You Have Been Warned.**

Allow me to begin by saying that I have not been a life long “Who” fan. I have, however, been a huge fan of the show since it was suggested to me last Summer. I was sick for six weeks with mono, so I figured starting the new series would be a good jumping on point since I wasn’t alive for the 1960’s “classic Who”.

I began with Christopher Eccleston, watched all of David Tennant, and fell in love with Matt Smith. It might have to do with the hi-def of seasons 5 and 6, or simply my my absolute love for a certain Scottish redhead, but whatever it is, I have liked the past two seasons better than the previous. This has caused major arguments within my group of friends.

I really, really try not to think too hard when I’m watching “Who”. I thought about “Lost” waaaaay too much when that was on, and that just ended in disappointment. I’ve finally accepted the story at face value, and try remember that it’s just a TV show, so everything won’t always make sense.

The new season of Dr. Who had yet to really blow me away until the final moments of episode 6 titled “The Almost People”, when you find out that Amy has been pregnant since before the season started, and has basically been going on adventures with The Doctor and Rory in her mind since.

We start the episode “A Good Man Goes to War” with Amy in the “nursery” on Demon’s Run. The baby has been born and her name is Melody Pond. Amy is telling baby Melody that she wants to protect her and keep her safe, but that she has to be brave because Madame Kovarian (ol’ one eye) and the other bad guys are going to take Melody away. However, Amy has been promised by The Doctor that he and Rory, will do whatever they can to find Amy.

Flash to 20,000 light years away where Rory is on a Cyberman ship trying to find out information on Amy’s whereabouts. the Cybermen are not cooperating, so The Doctor blows up a bunch of the Cybermen’s ships without so much as a flinch out of Rory. Rory is The Last Centurion. This is our hero shot.

While on Demon’s Run we learn that it is occupied by the military, as well as a seemingly new enemy, The Headless Monks. You do not look at The Headless Monks. Not ever. That is a killing offense.

Blah, blah, blah, Lorena is sewing, blah, blah, blah, “We’re the thin/fat gay married couple”, blah, blah, Lorena met The Doctor when she was little, blah, blah….

Next we find out that The Doctor has been busy recruiting his own army.  Madame Vastra the Silurian, Dorium Maldovar, Commander Strax, and the Judoon to name a few.

River and Rory share a moment, as River is checking back into her cell. Rory tells River that Amy has been taken and that The Doctor needs her help. River appears to know exactly what is going on, and expresses that she can’t help at the Battle of Demon’s run, because after the battle The Doctor will fall, and because of that, she can’t be with him until the very end because this is the day The Doctor finds out who River song is.

Back on Demon’s Run Colonel Manton is rallying the troops in case The Doctor shows up. Lorena sneaks off to the nursery to give Amy a gift. Lorena has been sewing a prayer leaf for Amy that has Melody’s name embroidered on it. Lorena’s people believe that if you keep the prayer leaf with you, your child will always come back to you. Lorena tells Amy about her experience with The Doctor as a child, and how special Amy must be that The Doctor would come back for her. Amy gives Lorena a warning that The Doctor is coming, and that for Lorena’s sake she needs to be on the right side when he gets there.

At this point we return to Colonel Manton, and discover that The Headless Monks are indeed, headless. Their necks tied up like little baggies at the top. Gross.

BOOM! The Doctor and his troops have managed to ambush Demon’s Run. The lights go out, and chaos ensues by turning The Headless Monks and the military against each other. Colonel Manton takes control of the situation by having the military disarm. The rest of The Doctors army appears and attempts to overtake Demon’s Run.  As all of this is happening, ol’ one eye is planning to take baby Melody and escape. Rory shuts down that plan, and ol’ one eye tells Colonel Manton to give the order for the military to stand down.

Rory and Amy finally have their dramatic reunion. Rory shows up in the nursery with the baby Melody in his arms, and this is when I begin crying like an infant. In this scene, Arthur Darvill, Karen Gillian and Matt Smith remind me why I love them so much. The love going on in this room is amazing.

After Commander Strax announces his ability to produce “Magnificent quantities of lactic fluid”, The Doctor brings out a bassinet for the baby to sleep in. A very old bassinet which will make sense by the end of the episode. We find out that Melody was conceived on the TARDIS, and is carrying Time Lord DNA because of that. Is it making sense to you yet?

The military back up plan is in effect, and although scans are showing that there are no other life forms on Demon’s Run except for The Doctor and the other “good guys”, Lorena insists that there is, because The Headless Monks are not alive. The ship goes into lock down as Madame Vastra and The Doctor are discussing why ol’ one eye would want a Time Lord. The conclusion is that Madame Kovarian needs a Time Lord to defeat The Doctor because seemingly, the only thing that can defeat a Time Lord is another Time Lord. We learn here that The Doctor is the most feared man in the universe.

Killing ensues and Rory ushers Amy and baby Melody to safety as The Headless Monks begin their attack prayer and Dorian Maldovar is killed. Baby Melody melts in Amy’s arms as it’s discovered that Madame Vastra has escaped from Demon’s Run with the real baby, and what Amy thought was the baby was really The Flesh. As we find out the baby has been taken and as Lorena and Commander Strax lie dying, I once again, find myself bawling my stupid eyes out. This will continue until the end of the episode.

In the last five minutes River shows up. The Doctor is super pissed because he doesn’t understand why she didn’t show up. River explains to The Doctor that he is the person who can turn an army around with the mention of his name, and strikes fear into the hearts of others. She explains that the word “Doctor” has become synonymous for “Mighty Warrior”, and that he is so feared that his enemy’s have kidnapped a child to take him down. The Doctor finally asks River who she is.

This is when the most mind bending thing happens. We find out that River is Rory and Amy’s daughter Melody. River explains that the prayer leaf was misinterpreted, and that “Melody Pond” became “River Song” because it was read backwards, and the only water source on Lorena’s planet was the river.

This whole episode was great to me. By far the best in the season yet. I’m always blown away at Steven Moffatt’s ability to tell a fantastic story. Some people have taken issue with the fact that Amy has seemingly become a “victim”. I don’t really see it that way at all. Amy was pregnant, kidnapped, and held against her will. There was not a whole lot she could do to get herself out of the situation without getting herself killed. The Doctor promised her he’d find her, and he did. If Rory needed rescuing, Amy would save him. Amy is strong and assertive, and “victim” is one of the last words I would use to describe her. One of the best lines in this episode is when Rory says “Melody Williams” and Amy’s response is “Ugh. Melody Williams is a geography teacher, Melody Pond is a super hero”.

Any episode that has River in it is going to be a great episode in my mind. She is one of the most brilliant characters out there. Whenever I watch her and The Doctor interact, I can’t help but think about the book “The Time Travelers Wife”. Sure, the time line is crazy, and you don’t always know what is going on, or when it’s going on, but it’s an awesome love story nonetheless.

I also appreciated the fact that we got to see a lot of characters that we haven’t seen in a while, and some new faces as well (like Henry and Toby Avery). The “Who” staff always does a fantastic job bringing everyone back together.

The supporting cast of the fifth and sixth season are what makes the show amazing to me. I feel like in “The Tennant years”, David Tennant was the thing that made the show, while the supporting cast was a bit underwhelming. However, the supporting cast of the past two seasons are where it’s at. Their ability to convey emotion, anger, and love, and do it seamlessly is the reason I keep coming back for more “Who”.

I’m super excited for the rest of the season. What a better way to start the second half of the season that with an episode titled “Let’s Kill Hitler”?

Entertainment Weekly has announced that Eliza Dushku will be lending her voice talents to an animated motion comic series, titled Torchwood: Web of Lies,  that will run alongside Miracle Day. Also lending their voices to the animated series are John Barrowman and Eve Miles as Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. Writing the series will be Jane Espenson, whose former credits include Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The series will run across 10 three minute episodes. The first episode will be released before Miracle Day premiers on July 8th. Each episode after that will be released the day after the Miracle Day episodes air.

We here at BSR like to speculate, it’s true. When it comes to Doctor Who, we kind of kick it into overdrive. This time, the latest rumor floating around isn’t ours, but it sure has out collective mouths watering and our geeky, robotic brains firing on all cylinders. According to the IMDb page for the last episode of Series 6, we’re going to have not one, not two, but rather three whole doctors in an adventure together!

Obviously, we’re taking this with a grain of salt seeing as IMDb isn’t exactly the bastion for solid news. It could be great, though. Matt Smith will obviously be there as the 11th Doctor, but the credits also list David Tennant and Peter Davison reprising their roles as the 10th and 5th Doctors respectively.

Multi-Doctor stories are always a treat because given a Time Lord’s long lifespan and the fact that each incarnation of The Doctor has a distinct personality and way of doing things, egos and ideologies will no doubt clash like fish fingers and custard.

The last time we had a multiple Doctor story was in the Children in Need special Time Crash which was a short, but heartfelt meeting of the 5th and 10th Doctors. In it, we get a built in explanation as to why Peter Davison’s Doctor looks older (and a bit chubbier) than he did during his initial run. Given that both Time Crash and the as yet unnamed final episode of this series are both written by showrunner Steven Moffat is also a bit telling. At any rate, as the news unfolds, we’ll keep you posted if this is ever confirmed or debunked. Until then, enjoy watching Time Crash!

The following is a submission from guest-bot “Huon-Tron” and she might be one of the biggest Dr. Who fans I know. Here’s her take on episode 6.5 and what might be in store for us in the future.

The Rebel Flesh (fifth episode in season 6 of Doctor Who) begins with Rory and Amy throwing darts, listening to Muse, and The Doctor examining the monitor which is still debating whether Amy is pregnant…or not…Actually, it’s saying she is/she isn’t. Then the Tardis goes all wonky in a solar tsunami and we end up at a church/factory with acid running through pipes and vats of flesh.

The Doctor immediately knows they are “almost people” (the people they are about to encounter), and he clearly knows what’s going on. His mission however, is to get the cockerel down (from atop the weather vane), because the solar tsunami is coming and the consequences could be devastating…

I’m not going to go into a full review here, that’s not my style (just watch it), but the humans have been creating doppelgangers from the vat of flesh (called The Flesh), and the solar tsunami created monsters out of the vat of flesh…their gangers are now “alive”! Very Frankensteinish. They feel everything and experience everything their human counterparts do…even have their memories, but they set out to destroy the humans. It’s war. It’s The Rebel Flesh. They have taken over the Acid suits, leaving the humans defenceless against the rupturing acidic pipes and acid puddling up everywhere, which by the way has soaked up the tardis. The gangers do have the advantage, and they are not stable. They are able to shift from human-looking to ganger. It can get difficult to tell them apart.

Meanwhile, Rory is all about one of the humans, protecting her. Amy is baffled, but playing it cool…and the Doctor, well, he can’t keep his screwdriver out of the vat, and we’re left with a Rebel Doctor. So, there’s a choppy, short review, now come my thoughts!

Things I’m thinking about regarding The Rebel Flesh…..WHAT is with Rory and that Jennifer chick? I mean, let’s face it, it’s weird. He’s always all about Amy. He’s Mr. Pond for crap’s sake. Something strange there. Perhaps he’s just protecting her, and it’s nothing else…perhaps he’s just making Amy jealous. No, again there’s something strange here. I’ve heard speculation where Rory could in fact be a ganger…is that possible? I’m not sure. I don’t think he can. I know he can switch his Auton-ness off and on, but is it possible for him to be gangerfied? Doppled?

Will the new Fleshy Doctor really be part of the Rebel-Flesh alliance? Can Amy and The (real) Doctor really trust him? “Trust me, I’m the Doctor” he claims. Oh, I’m sure they can. We see in a clip from The Almost People that the Rebel Flesh Doctor and the Real Doctor are getting on quite well….Maybe it’s best the Doctor does have a ganger…an insider. Also, will this be the beginning and the end of the Doctor’s ganger? Will we see a return of the clone? Could he, as some are speculating, be the Doctor’s killer? Or, could the Doctor we saw in The Impossible Astronaut really be the ganger…and the Doctor himself in the astronaut’s suit (finishing his ganger off once and for all?? Am I confusing you now? No, you all are too brilliant and clever. Personally, I don’t think the ganger will be the one in the space suit, and don’t think they even have anything to do with one another, but I could be completely wrong. Though, I HAVE been saying that I think the Doctor will be in the space suit. I still believe that. I don’t think the ganger will be though.

What will become of the tardis? Trapped in acid-soaked earth!! We do see it underground in the “next time” trailer, but has it been affected by the acid?

Also, I’m loving the hell out of the Troughton-ness of the show…and really the entire season. I love how Moffat and his team have brought back the classic feel, the brilliance of more companions in the tardis…more characters interacting with the Doctor (and the tardis) and in the story in general. It’s not just the Doctor and a female companion anymore. If you haven’t seen any of the classics…I suggest you start. I can provide links for viewing.

The music? Topnotch. I’m digging the theme even now into season 6. And this episode’s music in particular was brilliant. The part where we first see Jennifer oozing up out of The Flesh, ah, it was eerie and mesmerising. It channelled classic Who and even Twilight Zone perfectly. Oh, and we got a bit of Muse…

Is Amy pregnant? Or not? We still don’t know. She is….and she isn’t. It’s difficult to tell. The Doctor is perplexed, or maybe he already knows and is just keeping tabs on it until the time is right. Who knows??

And who can forget the Eye Patch Lady? Yes, we saw her again. This is clearly part of the whole Amy’s preggers/Amy’s not preggers paradox. Well, considering the plausible theory that the Eye Patch Lady is in fact some kind of futuristic midwife, then it makes sense that in one world Amy’s pregnant, being comforted and taken care of by said EPL; and in another world, she’s not. But she sure is being haunted by EPL in any case.
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So, where does this leave us? What can we expect Saturday? If you’re in the US, and you don’t want to miss out, I’ll have some links to watch it with a Live Feed, and some downloading, streaming options as BBC America isn’t going to show it until June. Memorial Day break. Bummer.

Think I’ve covered everything …..till next time.

Here is the first long trailer for Torchwood: Miracle Day! And it looks like this season is gonna be a doozy! This series will be a BBC/Starz joint production and stars John Barrowman and Eve Myles who reprise their roles of Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. Also joining them will be Bill Pullman, Mekhi Phifer, and Alexa Havins. Torchwood: Miracle Day airs July 8th in the US on Starz. It is looking like this is going to kick all sorts of ass!

This week’s Who was entitled “The Rebel Flesh” and was written by Matthew Graham, who is probably best know for being the co-creator of the series “Life on Mars”

The story begins as we’re introduced to a crew of workers who are pumping a supposedly valuable (and definitely corrosive) acid from their island outpost to the mainland. When one of the crew falls into said acid and promptly dies with seemingly no pain, we find that same person 2 seconds later saying he should be getting hazard pay for that.

Meanwhile, on the TARDIS. The Doctor is still poring over Amy’s will she/won’t she ultrasound. Before he can make any headway as to whether or not she’s pregnant, the TARDIS gets hit by a solar storm and the crew find themselves in 22nd century Earth to a certain island outpost…

Quickly, we learn that the workers can create and animate dopplegangers of themselves my use of some creepy looking control beds and a bug vat of goopy liquid they call “The Flesh”. Once the second wave of the solar storm hits the island and causes The Flesh to animate without the need for control beds, that is where things get really interesting.

This is probably my favorite episode of the season so far, simply because of the palpable tension the episode’s situation creates. The reactions of the crew, the Doctor, and the dopplegangers all rang as very true to me. The episode actually reminded me of the classic Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street“, which is a good thing. The stand out character for this episode for me was Rory. I think that he gets the short end of the stick when compared to Amy or The Doctor, but he is more compassionate that either of them, and his unwavering conviction to help “Jessica” even after she freaked out and clobbered him was the episode’s highlight.

Another great thing about this episode in particular is that it’s a slow burn that definitely merits a second part. We’re introduced to the concepts, given a great set up, The Doctor comes in and does his thing, and everything is about to wrapped up in a nice bow and everyone’s happy, and then… well. My only hope is that the next episode doesn’t devolve into an US vs. THEM all out war. This show has done that before, and it isn’t really one of its strong suits. The final scene, however makes me hope for the best.

This episode also makes one wonder if the existence of easily created beings that look, act, and feel exactly the same as their counterparts gives the writers an “out” for the events of the season’s first episode. I’m kind of hoping that it’s much more elaborate that than, though. Some other geeky/speculative things to note: I think Rory may be a doppleganger and not know it. Early on in the episode, he touches the wall of the castle/facility and it burns his hand slightly, since you know, there’s acid all over the place. Later, we’re told the dopplegangers don’t have the same type of nerve endings as humans, and as such don’t realise pain as quickly, or at all. Later still, we see Rory touching the wall again with no ill effects. The shot seemed to deliberate to me to be a continuity error, but time will tell.

The one mark I have against this episode is not a fault of the episode itself, but that the second part will not be airing stateside until June 4th, due to BBC America delaying the episode due to Memorial Day weekend. This stings for a couple of reasons, the first being that BBCAm had scheduled this series to air the same day on both sides of the pond, changing that due to the fear of lost Memorial Day ratings is short-sighted. People who really want to see the episode when it airs in the UK next week will surely find a way, and the ratings will be lower on BBC America regardless.

At any rate, you should be checking out the show, this episode illuminates the sort of sci-fi I like to see, classic xenophobia that is really about the human condition.

World Screenings have posted this interview that they did with producer Julie Gardner, along with actors John Barrowman and Bill Pullman about the newest series of Torchwood. Torchwood: Miracle Day is set to premier in the U.S. on Starz on July 8th.

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