The
rift has been opened and time is splintering all over the
world. As events spiral out of control, the Torchwood team
are faced with fragments of their past and terrifying visions
of their future. Can Captain Jack save the world?
The
rift has been opened and the end of the world is about to
happen but can the Torchwood team stop it?
After introducing the coming Darkness in ‘They
Keep Killing Suzie’, it is finally here but it
isn’t exactly what we thought it might be.
What
Torchwood has been missing during its first season
is a real threat. Where the Doctor has many nemeses such
as the Master, the Daleks and more recently the Cybermen,
Torchwood only really has the threat from what might come
through the rift. They really do need a reoccurring villain,
one that the audience will fear or adore (as we all tend
to do with villains). What comes out of the rift is a true
threat, not just to Torchwood but to the world. Yet it isn’t
one that you are going to connect with or want to see again
and again.
What
the finale does well, however, is reveal more of what the
rift can actually do. Once it is opened, it can splinter
time, throwing people from the past into the present and
showing you visions of the future that may have nightmarish
results. This forms the main emphasis of the story as all
the Torchwood team, except Jack, are tortured by visions
of the future and the return of lost loved ones instructing
them to open the rift further. What they do next has dire
consequences for Gwen and the only way she can reverse what
has happened is to open the rift even wider for it to shatter
time again.
This,
of course also allows what has been waiting in the Darkness
to gain power and emerge and the citizens of Cardiff are
about to see it for themselves, with devastating consequences.
The
finale brings to an end what has been, on a whole, a good
first season of the Doctor Who spin off. While
some of the episodes have been very hit or miss with far
too many standalone shows, the characters now have been
successfully introduced and it gives the writers a chance
to build a reoccurring storyline or threat in the second
season.
The
final scene of the season also sets up something that will
have a impact on the entire Who Universe and one that fans
will rejoice in.
Until
the next season…
