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"Jack and I have always disagreed about the faeries. I only see the good ones--he only ever sees the bad."
Small Worlds, Season One, Episode Five ("What are the supernatural forces stalking the Cardiff suburbs--and what do they want with the seemingly normal Pierce family?"
What I Liked
* Jack's gentle affection for Estelle--she think's he's the son of the man she knew in WW II, and of course he can't tell her otherwise.
* The faeries and the young girl they plan to steal away, Jasmine, are suitably creepy.
* The ending, where Jack decides he has no choice but to let Jasmine go, ties in perfectly with his character as seen in flashback in Children of Earth, where delivers an entire busload of kids to an alien race.
What I'm Not Sure About
* Why was Jack in charge of soldiers in 1909? This was before World War I even. Was he on sabbatical from Torchwood or what?
UPDATE: Wikipedia allows me to answer my own question--according to some extras on the Torchwood website, Jack was apparently leading the soldiers because they guarded a diamond mind and he was hoping to scam some gems.
What I Didn't Like
* The performance of the actress playing the Mom after Jasmine was taken--just too cliche and melodramatic.
Commentary
By: Alice Troughton (director), Ben Foster (composer), Eve Myles (Gwen)
Tone: A lot of laughing over incomprehensible in-jokes
Interesting Bits:
* Although it seems pretty feeble, apparently John Barrowman got a big kick out of making "faerie" gay jokes. He's gay, so I guess it's forgivable.
* The director "fired" the first cat chosen to play Estelle's Moses because it was too skinny.
* All three commentators wondering about what SUV stands for and putting forth incorrect guesses.
Deleted Scenes
* As far as I could tell, the deleted scenes option on disk one only went up to episode four, and I haven't yet found any for later episodes.
Torchwood Declassified: "Away With the Faeries"
* Interviews with the young actress playing Jasmine and discussion of what it was like filming the school scenes with the giant wind fans
* Interviews with P.J. Hammond, the writer of the episode, who is apparently a big deal in England because of an old show he created named Sapphire & Steel
* Discussion of filming the big party scene at the end of the episode, with the usual stuff about how difficult it is to react to CGI creatures.
2 comments:
I was amazed to see commentary mentioned. Is that an exclusive British thing? Because there is no commentary on the American versions.
I have the version distributed in the U.S. & Canada--on each disk, click on "Set Up" and there's an option to turn on all the commentaries (it is counter-intuitive that commentaries aren't listed as "Special Features").
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