Only Five Episodes?
Every Torchwood fan must be unhappy with this news that the new season is bringing only five episodes, though the previous two seasons had thirteen episodes each. Hey! Never mind, because this is only the third season which has five episodes and the fourth season will rather contain full thirteen episodes. This has been confirmed by John Barrowman portraying Captain Jack Harness, when he attended Comic con and book Soup in July.
The reason is BBC has shifted this series to BBC1 for the third season and it’s their top channel and they don’t want to bother about introducing characters once again, so they are bringing it with five episodes only so that in the fourth season, viewers will be familiar with the characters.
There are speculations that the other reason is budgetary. Actually all the three series of BBC, ‘Doctor Who‘, ‘Torchwood’ and ‘Sarah Jane Adventures’ have same budget, cast and crew so they had to cut down somewhere. So the situation was either there would be five episodes or there would be no season. So, we are lucky enough to get five episodes.
Here is another supposition that may be BBC is not yet ready to commit to this show, as it has remained in controversies due to portrayal of sex. But I think despite these controversies, people liked the concept of this show and that’s why the third season had to come. But it had been better if BBC would have trusted its fans and had brought, a season full of episodes.
I hope our opinions and comments left on entertainment sites would work well to urge these guys to bring more seasons with shorter gaps. So keep commenting………
