Take it for granted: humanity is not unique. Everywhere in the universe is teeming with life - by moons on gas giants, and unlike others' worlds, in other dimensions, everywhere, everywhere ... Time can be moved, the space - to expand consciousness - turn. You can believe in the monstrous and perceive it as routine as oatmeal for breakfast, as the rain in November. So much can be monstrous to believe that beautiful and just a good stop something worthwhile. Will cease to exist. Solution.

And something else can become a monstrous job. Daily routine. Monsters, bloodsuckers, death, kinks and unknown poisonous mockery of some forces that fear and misunderstanding of fools named senior ... No! Higher forces are not and never has been. There is only a monster, mud and despair. Earth - the backyard of world history, the settler, nature reserve ... The hole, which seeks universal waste.

For example, uivelly. They settled in the sewers. Lead a simple life, sleeping in some rags, guzzle it, they will find there. But sometimes one of them rises to the surface ... and lately it started to happen too often.

In the UK, in Wales, there is a town of Cardiff. Normal city, nothing special, with their problems and benefits; the only thing that distinguishes it from the rest of the British provincial cities - the space-time rift. Yes, and it would be fine, but sometimes occur in this city incomprehensible crime, often killing. And then on the scene comes a special group, representatives of top-secret agency, dispersed authorities, criminologists and onlookers to ... Well, for example, to revive the corpse for a few minutes and porassprosit him about his murderer, or that awaits all living after death. Employees of this organization are not mysterious form and do not obey either the police or the government. Their task - to prepare the world to life in the XXI century, for which they have the means, strength and skill.

This agency with super powers known as Torchwood and, actually, it's not even the agency, and something like a research institute - it founded by Queen Victoria when she realized that Britain has enemies far beyond the Earth (as it happened after the meeting monarshestvuyuschey person with the traveler in time and back) ...

In October 2006, popular in Britain and abroad series "Doctor Who" appeared "child" - a spin-off "Torchwood" .  "Child" was a little like a parent, despite the famous saying about the relationship of fruit trees and Rodia them fruit: on apple decent and even recommended for family viewing Doctor Who has grown outlandish forbidden fruit Torchwood (by the way, Torchwood - an anagram of Doctor Who), which just watch the children and is not recommended .  Too many scenes of a sexual nature, and not only in the traditional British conservative eye performance ... While there is some conservatism! - I must admit that it is TV people Albion often humanly indicate homosexual relations .  But coverage of same-sex love in "Torchwood" - much brighter than you can imagine .  And that's what makes "Torchwood" very adult TV series .  And very sexy, despite the guidance and even the sex of the viewer .

By the way, played one of the main roles - Captain Jack Harkness, John Barrowman actor - has never concealed his own homosexuality. And who plays Gwen, actress Eve Myles - recognized sex symbol of Wales. At the first meeting the actress is so excited by the filmmaker that he deliberately put into the script the character Gwen - a role originally constable, who passed on the secret service in the Institute, the show was not planned.

The first season - 13 episodes - was on TV channels BBC Three and BBC HD on "hurray", and in 2007 were filmed the second season of the series, which was shown at the beginning of 2008. And ... it looked like it all - the story ended? No, nothing like that. The third, however, considerably reduced, the season - only five runs - was released in summer 2009, has caused quite a mixed reaction, as many were not so, we would like fans. But the whole point of a good story: grow your own, live my life and do not look to the wishes of anyone else.

All questions will be a continuation, series creator Russell T. Davies (also known for his work on Doctor Who, Queer as Folk), mysteriously silent. Like, the ratings show. However, the ratings now show that the history of Torchwood continue. Immortal Jack, Gwen bursting - they are still with us; troubled Owen clever Toshiko, Ianto ambiguous - they are somewhere else ... monsters who drink blood, ripped the heart, eat brains - and this is the nicest of them. Evil spirits or indifferent, alien parasites, essentially without goals, but with the desire to kill and torture, monstrous devices that can break down any tangible world around. But the afterlife seems to still not.

  Rita Feotokis

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