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The Torchwood Institute is an organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was formed to research and combat alien threats to Great Britain, and use their findings to make the British Empire great again. To those ends, it acquires and reverse engineers alien technology by any means deemed necessary.
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Qvamp says: Torchwood is a spin-off (and anagram of) Doctor Who, centering on the notoriously bisexual character Captain Jack. Focusing on a secret government agency that collects alien artifacts, this series in unusual in that every one of the main characters was shown to be bisexual in the first season. |
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So a quick rundown:
- you have the dark, mysterious, sexy and almost sluty leader: the omnisexual Captin Jack (omnisexual as he shags aliens as well as both human sexes),
- then there's Tosh, the bisexual computer super geek,
- Owen, the insecure, obnoxious, and really pathetic 'straight-boy,'
- Gwen, the whiny clingy, bi-curious fag hag
- and my favorite character, the Alfred-esk butler/houseboy Ianto, who is also apparently Jack's booty-call boy.And yes, its all about them going round the city of Cardiff collecting alien technology.
With a much darker tone than Doctor Who it succeeds in being its own show, not just a spinoff... though at times it can be seen to be trying too hard to be 'adult.' But that's easily passed over given its good-points. Already in Season 1 the over-arching messages and sub-plots are begining to form, which is rare for any show this early on, and it does it well.
The show also has some truly chilling moments to boot, such as in the epsode 'They Keep Killing Suzie' when Suzie, finally tells the team what's on the other side of death
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