Avulsion (TD episode)
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Avulsion was the episode of Torchwood Declassified attached to Exit Wounds, airing on 4 April 2008, the day of its original broadcast.
Aspects of production covered
- The return of Captain John Hart and how he differs from his last appearance.
- Filming Jack Harkness's reunion with his brother Gray, then the subsequent betrayal.
- Building and filming the sets of the Turnmill Nuclear Power Station, leading up to Owen Harper's final death and how much of an affect it has on the audience.
- Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori leaving the series.
Additional topics covered
- James Marsters mentions how it is very good to play John Hart again, who he considers to be "the nastiest character I've ever played in my life". His character isn't going over the same ground as his last appearance but is a little different this time, being on a journey.
- John Barrowman talks about how John appears to be trying to destroy Torchwood but in reality is being manipulated by someone else. Chris Chibnall explains how this creates an atmostphere of "can you trust him or can't you" and Richard Stokes shows how it contrasts with John's earlier portrayal of an anarchic figure because John's love for Captain Jack is enough to make him try and do the noble thing.
- Stokes thinks Marsters liked playing the human side of his character and how it is nice to give characters like his a shred of humanity to work with.
- Ashley Way discusses how the scene where Jack meets his lost brother again appears to be a warm and emotional scene with homecoming, but it turns into a murder and opens up the episode into a huge theme of vengeance.
- Stokes explains that the one act of Jack letting go of Gray's hand has the most enormous effect on Jack's life, on Torchwood, Cardiff and most of all on Gray. Lachlan Nieboer's measuring of his character personality is that Gray's circustances are saddening because he's been "really, really tortured and has been surrounded by corpses for many, many years", which has made him very bitter and hate his brother "a very great deal".
- John observes Nieboer's performance as Gray and thinks he "plays the character like he is spitting venom".
- John says, "In Torchwood, one of the mottos is 'you die young'", and Richard Stokes brings up how they'd established a point from the beginning of Series 1 that no one in Torchwood lasts past the age of about 30 to 35, because "basically, you're on borrowed time", and the crew wanted to do a story where the viewer really felt the pain of somebody genuinely dying. He reveals, "It was a huge decision. Absolutely massive."
- The sliding doors which lock Owen in the nuclear power station are show from the perspective of the set crews who operate them to close.
People interviewed
Home video releases
Avulsion appears in the Torchwood series 2 DVD box set.
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