Resurrection Gauntlet

Story: Torchwoood: They Keep Killing Suzie
Written By: Paul Tomalin and Dan McCulloch
Length: 50 Minutes
Year: 2006

Good lord, just re-watching these episodes is getting harder. This is an episode that is completely contrived on almost every single level. The entire plot is based around a what-if scenario. Suzie has left Torchwood a series of traps...but the traps are all laid in a "just in case I am killed" situation. All meant to get revenge for things she wouldn't have any way of knowing.

Her lock-down set by the voice command of an Emily Dickinson poem is contrived enough as it is, but the solution to the lock-down...the ISBN number? Are you kidding me? How many different versions of the collected works of Emily Dickinson must their be. So some outsider happens to pick up the exact copy they needed with the correct ISBN. If you think about it, it would have made LOADS more sense if they happened to have Suzie's things, and they found the book themselves, and then Tosh had her little revelation that it could be the ISBN, and look at SUZIE'S COPY! See how easy that would have been? But instead the Writers (count 'em, there are two) decided the best plan was to get some cops laughing at the secret organization for a scene or two. Felt like time filler to me, like they needed to stretch this pile of whatsit to 50 minutes.

In the end the plans, the solutions, the characters, the everything...it all feels as if an 8 year old wrote it. Lazy Lazy writing this season.

NEXT TIME: Dogon Sixth Eye