h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So - what did people think?

I thoroughly enjoyed myself, the the bits with the kids were creepy as hell. Looking forward to tomorrow night.

I really enjoyed it. I was expecting it to be a bit rubbish, which might have boosted my opinion a bit, but it was really intriguing, sometimes exciting and had a *brilliant* cliffhanger.

I like how Peter Capaldi seems to be playing the polar opposite of the type of character he plays in "The Thick of It" too.

Much better than I expected.

Pretty good apart from the end.

Twice we have seen the laser cutter used. Jack had time to force Gwen out and have a bit of tonsil hockey with Ianto and also watch Ianto rise up in front of him up to the bay very slowly on the lift.

Enough time to get the laser cutter, get on the lift, use the laser cutter to cut the bomb out and drop the bomb into Torchwood as they leve the building.

Really enjoyed it. No way either of them were a mile away when it blew though, after they went to the trouble of stating mile blast radius.

Presumably blast radius if unconfined explosion. Although actually trying to rationalise Torchwood isn't really necessary!

Then why go to the trouble of mentioning the radius, then only giving them 2 minutes to escape? Even you average non-picky non-SF viewer is going to do the maths straight away on that one.

Well yes but presumably RTD thought it would build up the tension...it is on BBC 1 now rather than BBC 2 where the clever viewers reside.

Oh, which has just reminded me - at one point we see a history of Torchwood on a computer monitor, which mentions 'her Royal Highness, Queen Victoria'. You can tell RTD isn't a royalist. Queen's are Majesties, not Highness's...

RTD not liking queens?

Ooh, I liked that. Thought the dishy doc was being brought in as a new regular and then... Didn't see that one coming.
Shame I knew who the dark haired lady was though, naughty Radio Times!

I enjoyed it... i thought the middle of the episode was a little slow though, I'm just happy to have some passable telly on for a change

but good cliffhanger, and HORAY because RTD wont be resolving it!

I don't know, I think RTD did well last night. His last bits of Whoniverse work have been very good: Midnight, Turn Left, Stolen Earth and Journey's End were all very, very good telly.

There was emotional stuff in there, but it was handled well: Ianto talking to his sister about his sexuality, Jack talking to his daughter, Gwen finding out she's pregnant. It never veered into soapy stuff.

I'll see how he handles Day 5, but given last nights performance I think there's every reason to be optimistic.

awww he did day 5...

Hey....since when was Jack a dad!?!?!?! Was sitting laast night thinking "Did she just call him dad?" when she did it again. Weird, but great too. Wonder how he go to settle down for a bit....

I'm watching again at the minute and missing the same bits I missed last night. Gah!

Nooo!! You can't miss any!

I just missed a bit reading that.

Now I'm missing a bit replying to it.