Torchwood - 2 X 10 - From Out of the Rain (some Spoilers)

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There have been episodes of the current version of parent Doctor Who which was an adaption or adopted elements from Doctor Who stories from other media.

This episode the second from Peter J Hammond by contrast borrowing a plot element from a completely unrelated series, one that he created -Sapphire & Steel. From Sapphire & Steel he borrowed the plot element from Adventure Four which he also written.

The story is quite spooky and I thought the Ghostmaker looked like Vincent Price.

If there is one thing disappointing about the episode is that only one of the victims got his breath back. Would have been good if all got their breaths back.

Not bad the ending leaving things ambiguous about whether Jack and Torchwood does anything about the father and son which just bought a can of film.

 

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From Out of the Rain written by Peter J Hammond which feature people coming out of films was an expansion of the idea from his Sapphire & Steel adventure about people coming out of photographs.

Interestingly in the corresponding Torchwood Declassified episode, Hammond does not mention Sapphire & Steel by name when he talked how he came up with the idea for From Out of the Rain, only that the idea of people coming out of photographs came from shows in the past.