I've just seen a new reason to go to Redemption

It's just been announced on the redemption_con LJ and mailing list that Paul Cornell will be a guest at Redemption 09. This makes me happy, because after Orbital he went on my list of good reasons to go to a panel. I'd heard him at a talk some of the Who writers gave as part of the Manchester science festival last year, and liked him then, and thought he was enormous fun at the two panels I saw him on at Orbital. Even if he does think DNA makes lovely plotdevicium...

Torchwood 1.04 -- Cyberwoman

Jack really needs to look at his hiring policy and people management skills, doesn't he? First Suzie, now this.

( Torchwood 1.04 -- Cyberwoman )

The episode doesn't really work as the fourth episode of a new show, because you don't have enough reason to care about Ianto and Lisa. But it does work as a fragment of a longer piece, and I could chatter on at far greater length about why. There's a hell of a lot of characterisation and things implied that work a lot better when you have more of the long term story arc.