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[chickencam]

It was a powerful and very disturbing ending and I really hope that no one younger than 15 watched it. I feel that there ahould have been more warnings. With it being a Dr Who spin off I fear that quite a few youngsters will have watched it. The story line could really mess with their heads, I know it would have with me at that age

 

I think that Torchwood will be back in some form.

[Redwing]

My hubby watched the entire series of this the other day (we had a very lazy day)

 

I normally don't like these sorts of programme but watched over the top of my laptop screen from time to time and was pleasantly surprised (didn't tell him that )

 

It was pretty gritty though with some shocking moments towards the end

 

I did think it was very well written and surprisingly well acted and will watch the next series

[SAB]

It was a powerful and very disturbing ending and I really hope that no one younger than 15 watched it. I feel that there ahould have been more warnings. With it being a Dr Who spin off I fear that quite a few youngsters will have watched it. The story line could really mess with their heads, I know it would have with me at that age .

 

With it being school holidays, and this series not being on so late, and my kids (13 and 10) being Dr Who obessed and insistent on watching it, I had let them. Became clear early on that this might not have been one of my best ideas , but they then convinced me that they would need to watch it all to see how it would end - OH and I went with that assuming (naively as it turns out) that all would be well in the end. Anyway - they found the series facinating and have given it glowing reports and do not seem to have been disturbed by it. I think their innocence has been a factor as, unlike us adults, they do not seem to think that the government would really behave in that way and were clear in their own heads that it is just TV. They also were busy working out theories as to how it all fits with other aspects of Dr Who. In fact the only after-affect we have had is my 10 year old son suddenly staring and pointing, chanting "we are coming"(!).

 

I think my OH and I were far more disturbed by this episode of Torchwood than the children were.

[chickencam]

I can see that actually. We do get more dissollusioned (sp) and cynical as we get older, children tend to see thinks in a much more black and white way.

[Bantambabe]

My middle one (who's 10) is a massive Dr Who fan (well we all are) and had watched the edited versions of Torchwood series 2 that the BBC ran last year. He was desperate to watch the new series but wouldn't let him as it's too late on school nights. I also wanted to vet it first. I bought the dvds of it at the end of last week and having decided that the language wasn't too bad (no worse than he'd hear on the playground anyway) let him watch it over the weekend. He LOVED it.

As others have said, he didn't really get the government nastiness etc and the spin. He cried at the end when Steven died, but because he died rather than because of the sacrifice. He was also planning how it would fit in with Who, how they could bring it back for the next series and marvelling that the voice of the daleks/cybermen/judoon (Nick Briggs) finally got a proper acting part - as Rick Yate the spin doctor.

He now wants to watch series 1 which I have on dvd - which will be much harder and have to be much more carefully vetted; the language is much worse and loads of innuendo and full blown sex. He'll def have to be a lot nearer to 15 before he sees some of those episodes.

[SAB]

Oh Bantambabe I wish you lived closer, your 10 year old sounds like he would be the ideal friend for my 10 year old .