Torchwood S02E13: Exit Wounds [Spoilers]

[Bounty]

Owen dies twice. That must really suck. There are no continues this time, my friend.

The guy was actually dead before, you don't think they can contrive a way out for him from this minor situation?

I liked Gorman's idea in Declassified: Owen started swimming, found his way into the sewers, and now lives there as King of the Weevils

[Admiral Valdemar]

I liked Gorman's idea in Declassified: Owen started swimming, found his way into the sewers, and now lives there as King of the Weevils

I smell another spin-off coming. It'll be like The Phantom of the Opera. But with aliens and a dead doctor.

That reactor just wasn't right. When Owen does his little monologue about "heated fuel lines" and "containment breaking down" I just sat there screaming "THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!".

Why didn't they just say it was some kind of experimental Torchwood thing that John rigged to explode? That I would've understood. But come on, when you put in a nuclear reactor, at least look up what the damn thing is supposed to be like.

What made me laugh was that a cheap TV movie last week on BBC called Atomic Twister managed to not butcher science and engineering this way, but then they did have a real plant to film in.

Oh by the way, don't try and vent the coolant. We somehow got it to go into the control room. It was the best storage place for the funds we had at the time.

Don't ask where the core goes when it's used up.

[NecronLord]

Well presumeably the power plant wouldn't have been built to vent coolant directly into the control room, y'know?

Evidently not. Of course, that was a control room that was supposed to be evacuated at that point.

That reactor just wasn't right. When Owen does his little monologue about "heated fuel lines" and "containment breaking down" I just sat there screaming "THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!".

Why didn't they just say it was some kind of experimental Torchwood thing that John rigged to explode? That I would've understood. But come on, when you put in a nuclear reactor, at least look up what the damn thing is supposed to be like.

Really? Don't get spoilt: that was quite exceptionally realistic by TV-Nuclear-reactor-physics standards. There was no danger of it spontaneously turning into a nuclear bomb.

[Drooling Iguana]

That reactor just wasn't right. When Owen does his little monologue about "heated fuel lines" and "containment breaking down" I just sat there screaming "THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!".

Why didn't they just say it was some kind of experimental Torchwood thing that John rigged to explode? That I would've understood. But come on, when you put in a nuclear reactor, at least look up what the damn thing is supposed to be like.

Well it was originally designed to blast an alien surfboard into orbit, so it's to be expected that things would be a bit unorthodox.

[Hillary]

I think it pays not to know too much about nuclear science when watching Sci-Fi A throw-away TV drama is not going to bother checking all the science in order to appease the 0.01% of viewers who know how it works, I'm afraid. It sounded plausable enough to me (as I have little to no idea of how a nuclear power station works), so it would have done to almost all the viewers.

I thought that was pretty good. I didn't expect to lose both Tosh and Owen and it was seriously cruel on Tosh - the last thing to happen in your life is the death of the person you love (again) with the feeling that you are responsible.

At one stage (when Jack was whisked away by John) I thought Jack was going to leave the series and Gwen take over TW3. She has become far more assertive throughout this series. She should have kissed Rhys goodbye when she left the police station, though. Both Mrs Hillary and I commented on that.

I loved the cruel punishment from Gray - buried alive for ever. That's some bastardish torture (although wouldn't Jack have been able to burrow his way out, bit by bit, over the course of 1800 years). A shame the actor who played him was so wet. That was my biggest gripe with the episode - it's difficult to imagine that John could have been overpowered and be in Gray's control.

All in all, a good end to a good series. Much improved on series one.