Torchwood Magazine # 11

Stepping back a couple of years to get caught up on issues I missed the first time around. Here we have issue # 11 from December, 2008:

* An interview with Eve Myles. The magazine calls Gwen "the 21st Century's Emma Peel", which I think even a lot of Torchwood fans would have to disagree with. I mean, Gwen's okay and all, but I've never really seen the appeal, nor can I understand how Eve Myles is seen as some sort of sex symbol in Wales . . .

* An interesting feature on the heavy edits made to try to get a version of the show that could be shown to a "pre-Watershed" (all ages) audience. The article acknowledges that there are some silly rules in this area--for example, showing a mangled corpse in a car is okay, but only if it's depicted wearing a seatbelt (safety first!). The whole process seems like more trouble than it's worth, as the whole idea of the show is that it's science fiction for an adult audience.

* An interview with Gareth Thomas, of Blake's 7 fame, about his role in the episode Ghost Machine. Thomas seems rather dismissive of science fiction and implies that he wishes he would be remembered for something other than a decades-old genre show.

* Part eight of the Rift War comic strip. I've talked about this elsewhere, but to reiterate quickly: utter shite.

* Part one of the short story The Book of Jahi by David Llewellyn. Good stuff here, as Torchwood finds a corpse completely mangled and starts to realize there's a connection with a collector of artifacts from the Rift. Nice atmosphere and quality dialogue, and perhaps a villain (Mr. Glee) that makes the idea of Blowfish aliens worthwhile.