Via SFX’s RSS feed comes information on Terrifying Torchwood.
PJ Hammond, who created the excellent Sapphire and Steel and wrote Small Worlds for series 1 of Torchwood, has blabbed a little about the story he’s written for the show’s second series.
Warning: Possible spoilers ahead…
Hammond told SFX:
I really can’t say a lot, but it’s going to be terrifying.
One thing I can say is that I’ve borrowed something from my Sapphire and Steel days. I think one of my favourite Sapphire and Steels was the one with Mr Shape going in and out of photographs. Torchwood takes this a bit further and it’s people coming out of moving films from the ’20s. There are some lovely ‘black and white’ people in it. They’re busy processing the film now. It should be quite a scary show.
The look of “Mr Shape” will be familiar to Doctor Who fans; the concept of a face with no discernible features was reused by Mark Gatiss in 2006’s The Idiot’s Lantern. Still, as the end of 2007’s Human Nature/The Family of Blood showed with locking enemies away in mirrors (another appropriation from S&S), outright creepiness can work really well in the Whoniverse — and nobody does it better than P.J. Hammond.
I just hope series 2 of Torchwood lives up to our expectations in the way that series 1 didn’t…
what do you mean "like series 1 didn't" it was fantastic!