Torchwood: Reset

[purplecat]

Sometimes I get really irritated with that part of my brain that watches something like Reset and goes: Have these people never heard of animal testing? giving someone twice the dose of mayfly lavae does not make them mature twice as fast and she knows to be careful why not type something she doesn't know onto her eyeballs? because really, these are all minor niggles in what was, in my opinion, one of the best Torchwood episodes we've seen.

Something about the need to integrate Martha into the Torchwood team obviously focused the minds of production crew because suddenly they look functional and competent. It must be said season 2 has been working hard at this but Reset was the first time they really all seemed to gell together, from my point of view anyway, and became a bunch of people I was actually interested in and cared about. Just as well given the denouement which would have lacked its punch if I'd still been in "Torchwood team, so what?" mode.

Another big gripe I had with Torchwood last year was the lack of consequences. The team's incompetence never had any consequences beyond the end of the episode it occurred in. Since they've, by and large, been competent this year this has not raised its head. But Jack's forcible destruction of the apparently government sanctioned Pharm and Owen's death simply cry out for consequences.