Doctor Who fans it's been about a month or so since I last covered a Doctor Who TV show spin off and well I wanted to an end to it. I have to admit that I completely forgot about this show even existing for a good few years now and quite frankly can you blame me since the show only lasted for four seasons which is a shame as I owned the first volume of episodes on DVD and so then join me as I review the first episode of the show that changes everything with the episode in question being called simply just "Everything Changes" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when PC Gwen Cooper sees a mysterious team bring a dead man back to life she sets out to find who these strangers and find just what there up to. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time I thought that the plot of this episode was also rather very thinly drawn out as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness , Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper and Burn Gorman as Owen Harper. Also starring in this episode is Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato , Indira Varma as Suzie Costello , Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones , Kai Owen as Rhys Williams , Tom Price as PC Andy , Paul Kasey as A Weevil , Rhys Swinburn as John Tucker , Olwen Medi as Yvonne and Gwyn Vaughan-Jones as DI Jacobs.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes cast really doing their best to make the script work for them. However apart from Captain Jack Harkness none of these new characters are given any kind of personality and so the actors can;t really turn in great performances because of the fact that this episodes script just simply won;t allow them to do so.
Doing the CGI not only for this episode but also for the rest of the show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at The Mill. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad which since is to be expected since this show came in 2006 and alot of mid 2000's TV CGI hasn't aged all that well.
While I do see why they decided to include a mystery angle surrounding Captain Jack Harkness as that would bring in newer viewers to the show. It doesn't work if your a fan of Doctor Who since everybody knows why he disappeared in the early nineteen forties and Doctor Who fans no why he can't die and so having the characters wonder about all of those things whilst they are great for new fans it also means that the new fans would be playing catch up with the old fans as the old fans would now have to watch several episodes of another show just understand that whole mystery.
I really did like the fact that they made Gwen the audience character for this show as this is a show that really does need an audience character. As this show is a more grown up version of Doctor Who and since this show has a secret organization it makes sense to me that the co-main character of the show is the one that's asking all of the questions new fans would be asking on the flip side of this is oddly enough Jack himself who here represents every single Doctor Who fan because he like alot of Doctor Who fans already knows what's really going on with aliens and other such things.
I just said that this show is a more grown up version of Doctor Who and I really meant it because within the first ten minuets somebodies swearing in within the first thirty minuets there's blood and gore. Both of which are things that would never be seen in Doctor Who both in present day New Doctor Who or in classic Doctor Who and so to them in this episode really does hit home that this is a more grown up show and it's something that I really did love as it really did make the episode really feel all the more suspenseful.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty one minuets and ten seconds. Which was alot longer then what I remember this episode being as I remember this episode being at the very least forty five minuets which is really how long this episode should have lasted as this episode really doesn't have a whole lot their interms of either plot or story to cover it's actual running time and if this episode had a much shorter running time it would mean that we'd get a whole less filler scenes which in turn would help out with this episodes pretty bad pacing.
So now then since this a drama that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time it wasn't all that good either. As the key dramatic plot point of the episode really does come out of nowhere which is a ashame as it's a key plot point and as such it;s something that should have been built up a whole more then what it actually was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really solid debut episode that did a great job a setting up the show and the shows overall premise but it;s an episode that could have been so much better in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.