So
here we are, issue 14s connections for these two great shows. When I started
creating the list some did surprise me, including last issues spiky ball. So
what do we have for you this month? We have an echo of lines, one from ‘End of
Days’ and one from ‘Amy’s Choice’ , the teams home and a Toshiko Sato creation!
Echoed Lines - “What
is the point of you?”
The deaths of Rhys
and Rory (Willams):
Torchwood
Season One, Episode
13
‘End of Days’
After
Rhys has been stabbed to death by Bilis Manger, he is taken up to the main area
and Owen’s pathology lab.
Gwen
asks Jack to bring him back. When he says he can’t she gets angry and says
Gwen Cooper: No,
there's something wrong with time so we, we can go back and, to the moment, to
the very moment...
Captain Jack Harkness: Gwen!
Gwen Cooper: Well
there's got to be, there's got to be something that you can do, otherwise
what's the f*****g point of you! You bring him back! You bring him back, do you
understand me Jack fucking Harkness?
Captain Jack Harkness: I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Doctor Who
Season 31/5, Episode
7
‘Amy’s Choice’
Rory
is killed by an ‘alien’ pensioner and after he says his last words turns to
dust.
Like
Gwen in Torchwood, Amy asks the Doctor to bring him back and her following
lines is an echo of Gwen’s, without the swearing she says
Amy Pond: Save
him. You save everyone. You always do. That's what you do.
The Doctor: Not
always. I'm sorry.
Amy Pond: Then
what is the point of you?
The Hub:
Torchwood
The
Hub was Torchwood 3s base and appeared for two full seasons in seasons 1 and 2
and was destroyed in season 2s “Children of Earth” by a bomb planted inside
Jack’s stomach. It was also where Jack seemed to reside most of the time, when
he wasn’t out standing around on very tall buildings. The base is below the
Oval Basin in Cardiff’s Bute Docks.
Torchwood
Cardiff was originally set up in the Victorian times by Queen Victoria herself
who’d commissioned the firm Thomas, Mackintosh & Lushton (Swansea) Ltd to
construct it. The Firms Mr Bunting sort to finding land etc and instigating
it’s construction along with numerous tunnels around the UK that seemed to
connect three out of the four Torchwood bases.
Though
we mostly see only a small part of The Hub, like the TARDIS, there is a lot
more to The Hub than just the main area near the base of the Water Tower. The
Hub was built on many levels.
Main
level was a originally a kind of Torchwood Station platform with various
offices. There was also a small morgue with dumb waiters leading down to the
large cold storage two levels below the main area.
The
next level down had bricked-off tunnels and walkways to possible interrogation
rooms.
Below
this are the large cold storage areas, a mortuary with large draws that are
bigger than the average man. All former dead agents are also kept down here,
along with unnamed bodies that are used to cover up deaths caused by the Rift
or other alien activity such as deaths caused by weevils.
At
the deepest part of Torchwood 3 are the storerooms for various alien artefacts
such as spacecrafts, gadgets and weapons. These are all stored and catalogued
down here. There are also row upon row of filling cabinets that house all the
Torchwood documentation, reports etc that are constantly kept up to date.
You
can read more about the Hub if you are able to get your hands on a copy of ‘The
Torchwood Archives’ written by Warren Martyn, who went missing around the time
Torchwood One was destroyed in the battle of Canary wharf.. There seems to be
the odd copy floating about. Though the main copy was grabbed by Torchwood 3
and archived.
There
are numerous rooms that hold the archives both of Torchwood paperwork and the
flotsam and jetsam that has fallen through the Rift over the years. The vaults,
also known as the cells, where prisoners and captured aliens, such as Weevils,
are held. There was also once a submarine bay, which is spoken of in the novel
‘Risk Assessment’.
There
was also places such as bedrooms, showers, boardrooms, weapons storage, a
hothouse, probably a kitchen etc. The tunnels, at one time, did connect to all
the other Torchwood bases.
Doctor Who
The
Hub, along with Jack, Gwen and Ianto, were featured in the season 30/ 4
episodes “The Stolen Earth” and “Journey’s End”
The
Hub set was altered for the children’s workshop in the 2008 Christmas Special
‘The Next Doctor’ if you look carefully you can see The Hub hidden under the
workshop set, such as the huge drain and tunnels.
After
the Hub set was dismantled, at the end of filming ‘Children of Earth in 2009,
it was later used for the 11th Doctors new TARDIS interior as they needed a
much bigger sound stage than that used for the 10th Doctors TARDIS interior.
Time Lock:
Torchwood
The
time lock was created by Toshiko and is a defence mechanism. It seals the Hub
in a protective bubble.
Although
it worked when a Dalek penetrated the Hub during a Dalek invasion, it was
damaged and so was unable to protect the Hub when it was destroyed in the season 3, five part story ‘Children of
Earth’
Doctor Who
We
see the Time Lock in action when a Dalek manages to get into the Hub in the
season 30/4 episodes 12 & 13 ‘Stolen Earth’ and ‘Journeys End’.
We
find Gwen and Ianto shooting at the Dalek when the Time Lock kicks into action
and freezes the Dalek in a time locked bubble, along with the bullets fired by
Gwen and Ianto’s guns.
When
the Doctor, who was created via the meta crisis, committed genocide of the
Daleks, the explosion of the time trapped Dalek caused such damage to the Time
Lock, it was beyond repair leaving the Hub, once again, vulnerable to invasion.
