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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By E. I. C. Rae
Format:Audio CD
These 3 stories are plays originally written for the radio and not someone reading a novel. We hear the voices of the actors themselves, which is great, because who can do Captain Jack other than Captain Jack himself?
The 3 adventures are exciting and well presented, with just enough sound effects.
I would recommend this product for fans of Torchwood and Captain Jack on family car journeys (as was the case for our family).
Our only complaint - we want more!!
The 3 adventures are exciting and well presented, with just enough sound effects.
I would recommend this product for fans of Torchwood and Captain Jack on family car journeys (as was the case for our family).
Our only complaint - we want more!!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Lady H
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Torchwood the radio adventures full cast dramas. By far the best of the three CDs was The Dead Line- ultra scary (maybe because I remember 1976). Asylum came a close second- you also get an insight into PC Andy and the future. The weekest story was Golden Age- It was too predictable.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I say Torchwood-lite because these plays have obviously been written for a "pre-watershed" sort of audience, the Doctor Who demographic if you like, or perhaps the genteel Radio 4 listenership.
The Torchwood TV series (uncut) seemed gratuitously at odds with it's parent series because it is set on a comparatively more realistic plane of reality than Doctor Who. It had more realistic dialogue (especially compared to the "classic series") with the requisite level of Anglo-Saxon profanity, snippets of mundane down-to-Earth domestic/work life and occasional unflinching scenes of slightly unglamorous marital/extra-marital/homosexual/interspecies sex that many of us may endure and/or partake in (don't get defensive, I'm not judging!) in real life, not to mention that in Torchwood if you were to fall off of the Pharos radio telescope tower or get shot in the chest by triads while locking the TARDIS doors behind you there would be a lot of visceral, bloody mess as opposed to an elegant, prone body or a sequence of tidy little holes across the front of your waistcoat. (Can you imagine a post-watershed period remake of "An Unearthly Child" - or ANY classic series Doctor Who story - by the Torchwood production team?)
The reality of Doctor Who is (necessarily) filtered and homogenized therefore, in the hands of lesser writers, a little remote and plasticky and it is into this polite BBC reality that the reduced Torchwood team are incongruously bound for these adventures. Two of the stories transcend these limitations by being really interesting (Asylum) or really spooky (The Dead Line).... Read more ›
The Torchwood TV series (uncut) seemed gratuitously at odds with it's parent series because it is set on a comparatively more realistic plane of reality than Doctor Who. It had more realistic dialogue (especially compared to the "classic series") with the requisite level of Anglo-Saxon profanity, snippets of mundane down-to-Earth domestic/work life and occasional unflinching scenes of slightly unglamorous marital/extra-marital/homosexual/interspecies sex that many of us may endure and/or partake in (don't get defensive, I'm not judging!) in real life, not to mention that in Torchwood if you were to fall off of the Pharos radio telescope tower or get shot in the chest by triads while locking the TARDIS doors behind you there would be a lot of visceral, bloody mess as opposed to an elegant, prone body or a sequence of tidy little holes across the front of your waistcoat. (Can you imagine a post-watershed period remake of "An Unearthly Child" - or ANY classic series Doctor Who story - by the Torchwood production team?)
The reality of Doctor Who is (necessarily) filtered and homogenized therefore, in the hands of lesser writers, a little remote and plasticky and it is into this polite BBC reality that the reduced Torchwood team are incongruously bound for these adventures. Two of the stories transcend these limitations by being really interesting (Asylum) or really spooky (The Dead Line).... Read more ›
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