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Officer 565 is down, but not out. Like the famous bunny, he just keeps going and going and… sigh<\/em>. Everything character based with Owen has now been neutered so why are we still suffering him? Does Burn have an unbreakable contract or something? His dramatic death has been completely undercut, so now his death status is just going to be a “fixture” of Torchwood that will be referenced occasionally… yep, he’s become the pterodactyl.<\/p>\n This raises the question of why? What’s the point? Why is he still around? The arc only has real impact if there is lasting influence, and his death and Martha being around now has no impact. If Owen had died and stayed dead, that would have been something, but no. If Martha had been killed, that would have meant something (extreme outrage from the fans for one…), but she was sidelined.<\/p>\n Has this whole three parter been as relevant as Random Shoes<\/em>? Plotwise, no, as this arc was actually about the Torchwood team. But character-wise, it appears so. Stuff happened, but let’s move on and never talk about it again. Torchwood<\/em> series two has built up some great character development, and I was really liking it, but now it’s just gone to crud. Hopefully the back five will pick up again.<\/p>\n But, hey, Richard Briers! Yay! Let us speak no more about Paradise Towers<\/em>, as seeing him in this made for the one bright point in the otherwise doom-laded script (Joseph Lidster does seem incapable of writing anything else), and he gives a lovely performance that actually makes you like the character despite the sparse three minutes he’s on screen. I’d ask for more of him, but that might be a bit tricky (although we have now proved that death doesn’t stop anyone from staying the series…). But he is so wonderful he made it into the Declassified and we hear him talk about the part… go Richard Briers! (And the Declassified also features the Owen vs Cardiff Bay scene cut to a new soundtrack that’s just begging to be fleshed out into a YouTube video.)<\/p>\n Ugh. The arc is over, for all it doesn’t matter. Let us move on and try to forget about this period in our lives…<\/p>\n JE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officer 565 is down, but not out. Like the famous bunny, he just keeps going and going and… sigh. Everything character based with Owen has now been neutered so why are we still suffering him? Does Burn have an unbreakable … Continue reading