Disturbingly enough the First Episode of this DVD was shown on the BBC on a Monday. The programme that was before it was PANORAMA doing an investigation on Police powers and Government Laws heading towards a Police State and chillingly parrelled the Torchwood Series 3 Mini-Season of 'Children Of Earth'. If you had changed the title to 'Quatermass' it would have reflected even more so the story. Nigel Kneale was dismissive of Dr Who and had declined a chance to write for the show but if he had seen the latest Torchwood story I'm sure he would have been proud of the connection. Starting out slowly this tense and gripping tale took a lot of people by surprise. Not only has it been the best so far (Although highlights have certainly cropped up in Seasons 1 & 2) it has a knack of leaving you reeling. The story takes you to places you don't want to go and is fairly bleak. It also asks hard choices of groups of people and individuals. If you are facing extinction against an enemy you can't strike back at - What do you do? Do you sacrifice a proportion? An individual? Doing what is right can be so hard and the final scenes leave you feeling despondent. After the end it would be total anarchy - People would fight against the army and police, governments would fall and civil war would follow. The planet would be devastated.
Torchwood comes across a series of strange events and starts to investigate. Then Torchwood itself comes under attack and it's members targeted. Events from 1965 impinge on the present day and Government machinations grind into gear. An alien presence is heading towards Earth and it has the planet's children under it's control. Thing's fall apart as the Earth's Government's completely lose control of the situation.
This 2-Disc set has been rush-released straight after the TV broadcast. I personally think it will get a lot of takers and was pretty savvy of the BBC to do this. You get the full 5 Episode Mini-Series plus 'Torchwood: Declassified' an exclusive behind the scenes look and some of the 'Torchwood: In The Shadows' Audio Story. If this is the end for Torchwood then they went out on a brilliant high (But still leaving things wide open for a return) personally with large audience figures of 6 million on Primetime BBC1 and DVD sales, I can see it will return for a fourth Series?