Jules Jones

Another of the episodes I hadn't seen before. Oh look, it's another "hot girl on girl action" episode. Although in fact they *don't* play it for the gratuitous sex scene opportunities, which I'm glad of. Not just because f/f isn't my taste in porn, but because in this episode it would have distracted from the point of the story instead of supporting it. This is a character episode, and it's an episode about what Torchwood does to the people who work there, and their relationships with other people. Usually we see the damage through Gwen, but it's good to see that it's not just Gwen, but a more general problem caused by not being able to talk to anyone outside the job.

So Tosh is feeling lonely and unloved and put-upon, and thus is ripe for seduction by a woman who happens to be an alien who's been living on Earth for the last century or two, and who's interested in Torchwood's investigation of a piece of technology connected with her. An alien with a pendant that bestows the gift of telepathy. As Tosh finds out, being able to hear the hidden thoughts of others is both addictive and disturbing...
( Torchwood 1.07 -- Greeks Bearing Gifts )

In general -- I enjoyed this one quite a lot, though it's not on my list of favourite episodes.