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[[File:torchwood2-350px_2896.jpg|frame|Protecting [[Aliens in Cardiff|Wales]] from the scum of the universe.]] |
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{{quote|''[[Opening Narration|The 21st century is when everything changes, and you gotta be ready.]]''|'''Captain Jack Harkness'''}} |
{{quote|''[[Opening Narration|The 21st century is when everything changes, and you gotta be ready.]]''|'''Captain Jack Harkness'''}} |
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* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] due to a space-time rift, making it a hubbub of otherworldy activity. |
* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] due to a space-time rift, making it a hubbub of otherworldy activity. |
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* [[Aliens Are Bastards]] |
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]] |
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Let's see. We have Gwen, who does love Rhys, but not in the same way she loves Jack. Jack loves her, but stays away because she's taken, and he's also infatuated with the Doctor. He starts sleeping with, then seriously dating, Ianto, who is in love with him, but Jack has a tendency to avoid the subject of love {{spoiler|until ''[[Torchwood the Lost Files]]''}}. Tosh is in love with Owen, who won't give her the time of day. (There is an episode when he does due to mind-altering aliens, but then she has no interest in him due to same.) Oh, and Andy used to date Gwen and would like her to stop being so happy with Rhys. |
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Let's see. We have Gwen, who does love Rhys, but not in the same way she loves Jack. Jack loves her, but stays away because she's taken, and he's also infatuated with the Doctor. He starts sleeping with, then seriously dating, Ianto, who is in love with him, but Jack has a tendency to avoid the subject of love {{spoiler|until ''[[Torchwood the Lost Files]]''}}. Tosh is in love with Owen, who won't give her the time of day. (There is an episode when he does due to mind-altering aliens, but then she has no interest in him due to same.) Oh, and Andy used to date Gwen and would like her to stop being so happy with Rhys. |
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Jack can ramble at length about where he's been and who he slept with while there. This isn't always because he's the [[Handsome Lech]]. |
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Jack can ramble at length about where he's been and who he slept with while there. This isn't always because he's the [[Handsome Lech]]. |
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** "We're outside the government and beyond the police, arming the Earth against the future. The twenty-first century is when everything changes, and we gotta be ready. All five of us." |
** "We're outside the government and beyond the police, arming the Earth against the future. The twenty-first century is when everything changes, and we gotta be ready. All five of us." |
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{{quote| '''Jack''': This is Torchwood 3. Torchwood 1 was London -- destroyed in the battle. Torchwood 2 is an office in Glasgow. [[Cryptic Background Reference|A very strange man]]. Torchwood 3, Cardiff. Torchwood 4 has [[Noodle Incident|kinda gone missing]] but we'll find it one day.}} |
{{quote| '''Jack''': This is Torchwood 3. Torchwood 1 was London -- destroyed in the battle. Torchwood 2 is an office in Glasgow. [[Cryptic Background Reference|A very strange man]]. Torchwood 3, Cardiff. Torchwood 4 has [[Noodle Incident|kinda gone missing]] but we'll find it one day.}} |
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** The decline in team size is rather surprising. Much is made of the fact that Torchwood operatives have a high mortality rate, yet there seems to be no system of formal recruitment for new members, nor anyone in any kind of backup position for any of the existing team members. Jack recruits entirely at random, and despite the fact that Torchwood team members are "paid by the Crown" (according to Gwen), there is nothing even remotely resembling a recruitment, staffing or human resources organization. |
** The decline in team size is rather surprising. Much is made of the fact that Torchwood operatives have a high mortality rate, yet there seems to be no system of formal recruitment for new members, nor anyone in any kind of backup position for any of the existing team members. Jack recruits entirely at random, and despite the fact that Torchwood team members are "paid by the Crown" (according to Gwen), there is nothing even remotely resembling a recruitment, staffing or human resources organization. |
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