And can Gwen and the team trust him? For once, it's actually believable.And Cath Tregenna does good things with Gwen and Rhys's relationship, too. They locate the creature and plan to stun the men and sedate it so they can move it back to the Hub until the Cardiff space-time Rift reopens so they can send it back. Cherish it.We do like the way that sometimes even they seem to realise how pompous they are and take the piss out of themselves. Fortunately, that wasn't a problem for the show's writers. Ianto's gone from cracking jokes to grim to cracking jokes again in the space of three episodes, and in this one he also produces a James Bond turn that's utterly unlike his usual self. For once, … She's kidding, right? The meat it carries is tainted, or is it even meat at all? We also love the fact that they've corrected the howling stupidity of Rhys being the last person in Cardiff to know what Gwen does for a crust. on the image page. I usually like edgy and unnerving content that makes me push my limits of comfort, but when something is that repugnant, it overwhelms the plot and distracts me. The good characters in Torchwood are never the look-at-us super-secret alien hunters, they're the ordinary people like PC Andy and Beth. But he's no longer sure who he can trust anymore. Conflicts abound when a truck owned by Rhys's trucking company is investigated by Torchwood... and Rhys is there to see it. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Rhys ... With guns, instead of the oh-so-carefully specified stun guns to make sure that they're outgunned? Many seem put off by the sex.

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Rhys does a little investigating of his own, and might have something to contribute to the team this time around. They confirm that the creature is sentient, and experience empathy over its plight. Gwen's demonstrably close relationship with Rhys just doesn't fit with those godawful scenes with Jack supposedly dripping with sexual tension. One star indeed. The show's second series rates above the first, scoring an aggregated 80 out of 100. Seeing an opportunity, they continually cut meat out of the beast and sell it … The bit where Owen and Ianto open the door all action heroish, then slam it again, is a gigglesome case in point.
Remember Jack being all steely-eyed with poor old Beth? You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The good characters in Torchwood are never the look-at-us super-secret alien hunters, they're the ordinary people like PC Andy and Beth.

Meanwhile, analysing a sample of the meat, Torchwood's resident medic Owen Harper (Burn Gorman) conjectures that it is being used for human consumption. They're happy enough to fling their Torchwood credentials around the rest of the time: why not just walk in? All very tense and stuff, but why? When it comes to aliens, it seems that Jack's policy is to freeze first and ask questions later. 147–148Walker, "Part Six: Episode Guide-2.04: Meat" pp.

It's long overdue, and had Gwen retconned him at the end we would have formed a posse, hunted the writer down and dropped some overripe blueberries down her favourite dress. But beyond the repulsiveness factor, the plot's all just a little bit silly. Capt Jack Randyness and the rest of the TorchWeasel team take a look at the Whaling industry in Wales, thanks to the latest Torchwood episode. Use the HTML below. Exploiting public paranoia about the food supply is meant to make the plot more plausible, but really.
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? With John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori. My Review of Torchwood's 2x04: "Meat" Written by Catherine Tregenna Directed by Colin Teague Gwen: “I catch aliens.” Rhys: “Piss off.