I've heard that this week's episode was swapped in the running order with "Curse of the Black Spot" (another meh episode) and that's why there's no reference to previous events in it, with the exception of the ending. Still, a line or two somewhere about previous events would have been nice.
The weird thing is, if you look on other communities, there are a lot of people who loved this episode because it WASN'T a continuation from last week and it wasn't a timey-wimey River thing. So the show has to play to two audiences at the moment, to some extent. Personally, I would be happy to see them junk the stand-alone episodes and just give in to the overall arc, but there'd be uproar in some quarters because there wouldn't be any convenient jumping on point for new viewers.
We're one week behind with Torchwood in the UK, so I don't know what happens in episode 9, but so far I'm struck by how little Torchwood are actually achieving themselves and how much information is falling into their laps. It makes them seem rather ineffectual. I've actually reached the point now where I'm not really bothered about the team itself, I just want to see how all the politics of it works out and What Jilly Does Next. Both of which will probably be dispensed with now in order to wrap it all up. Meh.
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The weird thing is, if you look on other communities, there are a lot of people who loved this episode because it WASN'T a continuation from last week and it wasn't a timey-wimey River thing. So the show has to play to two audiences at the moment, to some extent. Personally, I would be happy to see them junk the stand-alone episodes and just give in to the overall arc, but there'd be uproar in some quarters because there wouldn't be any convenient jumping on point for new viewers.
We're one week behind with Torchwood in the UK, so I don't know what happens in episode 9, but so far I'm struck by how little Torchwood are actually achieving themselves and how much information is falling into their laps. It makes them seem rather ineffectual. I've actually reached the point now where I'm not really bothered about the team itself, I just want to see how all the politics of it works out and What Jilly Does Next. Both of which will probably be dispensed with now in order to wrap it all up. Meh.