Torchwood Magazine # 25

Here it is, the big final issue of Torchwood Magazine. Will it be reincarnated if The New World hits big in the States?

Here's what the double-covered twenty-fifth issue had to offer:

* Good interviews with John Barrowman and Eve Myles about receiving the news that the show would continue as a BBC/Starz co-production.

* A short story by James Moran titled "Unplugged", designed to give Toshiko a chance to shine by forcing her into a situation which she has to be more than the Hub's resident computer expert.

* "Requiem", a short story by Trevor Baxendale, about a figure from Jack's past haunting the Hub--not particularly good and awkwardly fitted with a post-Hub framing sequence.

* A comic strip ("Overture") set entirely in 1941 Cardiff with Jack as the only cast member featured. The standard alien infiltration plot has a bit of a twist at the end, but I'm not sure it makes sense and I'm pretty sure the loose end it leaves will never be tied off.

* A brief guide to the comic strips appearing in past issues of the magazine and specially commissioned for websites. Understandably uncritical, or else almost every summary would read: "Shite, Shite, Shite."

* A ten-page episode review and production diary for Season Two's A Day in the Death. Most of this is pretty boring, but I have to admit it's amazingly detailed (even includes a freakin' list of every single extra--"Supporting Artist"--that appeared in the episode).

* A final short story titled "We All Go Through." This is one of those stories that wants to be clever by telling segments out of order, but the conceit really turns out to just be annoying and unnecessary. The core plot, about a man who somehow has the power to open the Rift and believes he is a messianic figure, is relatively interesting.