Everything You Need to Know aboutTorchwood

Torchwood is born-again tomorrow Nox , as a braggart - budget co - production with the American overseas telegram meshing Starz . But with three season of this British skill fiction show already out there , what do you necessitate to live to enjoy it ?

The myopic answer is : dead nothing . The young serial brings you up to speed fairly easy .

But there ’s still hooey that might make more sense if you know the backstory . Here ’s our gross guide to everything you need to jazz about Torchwood before Miracle Day .

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utterly no spoilers for Torchwood : Miracle Day await you , but there are major spoilers for the first three seasons of Torchwood . Plus Doctor Who .

So you might have hear that Torchwood is a spin - off of Doctor Who , the BBC ’s flagship scientific discipline fiction program which is close in on its 50th anniversary . That ’s a lot of persistence to keep rails of , right ? Not really . The good intelligence is , Doctor Who seldom pay attention to its own continuity , and Torchwood ’s links to the Whoniverse * are fairly modest at this point .

The Torchwood Institute was founded by Queen Victoria back in 1879 , to defend Britain from extraterrestrial threats – include the metre - journey Doctor himself .

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Flash forward 120 + years , and Torchwood became a huge , brawny secret government organization that is fain to take utmost measures to get along the British internal interest . Until the organization was all but ruin due to its over - reach .

As a result of the event on Doctor Who , Torchwood was reduced to just one planet office in Wales , which operated near a rift in the space - time continuum in Cardiff . That authority was run by Captain Jack Harkness , the cryptic immortal gentleman from the future . And then that office was destroy , will Torchwood with no HQ and not much of an official condition .

All you really ask to know about Captain Jack is : he ’s from the 51st century , he ’s travel extensively around the universe , and he ’s lived for thousands of years . And due to some time - change of location trickery , he ca n’t expire . He ca n’t even get hurt . He ’s also epicene and extremely well-chosen about it .

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And it would probably be helpful to roll in the hay that Captain Jack is sway around a circle of guilty conscience and self-reproach . He got almost all of the stave of Torchwood kill . Including his lover , Ianto . And to cease a ruthless race of aliens who wanted humanity ’s nestling , Captain Jack slaughtered his own young grandson . These events may not be cite in point , but Captain Jack ’s regrets will no doubt come up .

Actually , there ’s heaps more to know about Captain Jack , but chance are none of it will come up . Like , he had a brother named Gray , who was lost during an attack by alien invaders , and turn malevolent . He also had an x - boyfriend , Captain John , who turned sorta - evil . He was an factor for the cryptic Time Agency , which erased two years of his memory . He fought in World War I , and about three variation of him were in World War II . He was attack by faggot and joined the carnival . Almost certainly , none of this hooey will be mentioned or even referred to , ever again . leave we observe it .

Who else is in Torchwood , besides Captain Jack ?

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raft of people who are dead . You do n’t need to know about them . Captain Jack ’s dead beau , Ianto , may be consult to in passing . The other Torchwood deadened will probably not even be advert to .

Plus there ’s Gwen Cooper , who was a policewoman until she hit on the truth about Torchwood — and then she was recruited to join . She kept Torchwood a secret from her fiancé , Rhys , for a foresightful clip . But eventually Rhys found out , and became sort of an unofficial penis , who quetch a lot about the danger that Torchwood order Gwen into . Gwen and Rhys scram splice , and Gwen got meaning , with an apparently normal babe . Oh , and it ’s been hinted that Gwen and Jack are secretly in love with each other .

The Torchwood crew have been known to use lots of extraterrestrial technology to get around material . This includes Retcon , a drug that erases your little - terminal figure retention – and probably causes filthy brain damage , if you use it too often . And there are fancy contact lenses that can function as cameras and broadcast whatever you see onto a laptop computer screen – plus allow you to read whatever is typed on that laptop computer . There ’s also a resurrection gauntlet , that can bring the dead back to life for a unforesightful time , but that was seemingly put down .

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So with Torchwood ’s HQ destroyed and most of its staff dead , the system is pretty much non - real . In 2009 ’s Torchwood : shaver of Earth miniseries , the Torchwood squad was hunted down by the British government because the government want to keep some extraterrestrial child - traffic secret . As a result , the Torchwood Institute was get out pretty much radioactive , and misplace whatever government support it had entrust .

tiddler of Earth ended with the brokenheartedness - and - guilt - stricken Captain Jack leaving our planet to go off and explore the macrocosm again . ( We later glimpse him in some alien bar on what reckon like a space post , on Doctor Who . ) Gwen , meanwhile , appear to be settling down with her husband Rhys and her newfangled sister .

So where does that leave behind Torchwood ? It ’s basically a defunct organization , that almost nobody life knows about , and it ’s go so far from its original deputation of make headway the British national interest and hunt down the Doctor , that it ’s no longer really abiding by its charter . But with the Doctor frequently off make unnecessary other satellite — there are a lot of them , after all — there are times when our world faces a weird , extraterrestrial spot so extreme , it needs the help of specialists . And even with just two members , plus a husband and baby , that ’s Torchwood .

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