Torchwood: "To the Last Man" (S2, E3)

"What am I fighting for?"

"For the future. For me."

To the Last Man (Season Two, Episode Three)

("Toshiko falls for a handsome soldier, trapped out of his time, who unwittingly holds the key to saving the world.")

WHAT I LIKED

* Gerald & Harriet, World War I Torchwood. Seeing operatives from different eras in the organization's history is always interesting.

* The concept: a man frozen in the vaults, woken for one day every year and maintained for some mysterious purpose? Good stuff! I would read a novel told from Tommy's point of view, as each day for him starts with a year having passed for everyone else . . .

* Tosh. She has a pretty sad love life when you think about it--waiting all year for one day with a guy who actually seems to like her (because Owen is such a doofus).

* The foreshadowing, as Ianto and Gwen talk about how Torchwood operatives almost always die young.

WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE

* The way out of left field idea that Tosh can astrally project to the past by injecting her (?) with samples of Tommy's blood. Technobabble is technobabble, but still!

WHAT I'M NOT SURE ABOUT

* Jack mentions having been present for the worst carnage of World War I--we know he was an operative for Torchwood at this time, so what would he have been doing on the battlefield?

COMMENTARY/DELETED SCENES

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TORCHWOOD DECLASSIFIED

* Interviews with various folks about the decision to do a Tosh story, and make it a romance with a sad ending. John Barrowman has the funny (but probably not true) line that "Out of all the characters on Torchwood, Tosh is the one that gets laid the most."

* A short and rather quite boring feature on how the director handled the extras (a.k.a., "background artists") in the hospital scenes.