So I finally got around to watching the first two epsidoes of Torchwood, and I basically liked it. A few things didn't gel for me, and I certainly didn't click with the show the way I did with Doctor Who, but it looks promissing enough. I did notice the Angel parallels, but they didn't bother me all that much. I was a bit afraid at the beginning of the second episode that the plot would follow the Angel episode too closely (one of the really early ones, have forgotten the name), but it turned out different enough (and oh my, the security guy thingy was scary visual place *shudder*).

I liked the characters for the most part. I really like Gwen - I think she and Jack have an intersting rapport. I wasn't quite as convinced by Jack though, I must say. I liked him in Doctor Who, and he fit in really well with the Ninth Doctor and Rose, but it seems like he still needs to find his footing in his own show (or at least that's how it seems to me). I'm not sure how good he is when it comes to the more emotional stuff. I do like the fact that even the others at Torchwood have no idea where he's from etc - I like the scene where they all start pumping Gwen for info. As it stands now, Gwen is the newbie and yet she seems to know Jack more than the others.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt that Rose was often more central to Who than the Doctor, and in the first two episodes, Gwen has absolutely been more important to Torchwood than Jack, although I certainly expected a Jack show.

That was my impression too. In a way the first episode was similar to "Rose" - the audience learns about Torchwood through her point of view, just as we meet the Doctor through Rose.

I'm curious how the various relationships of the ensemble are going to turn out.

Hmm - this ended up a bit more rambly and incoherrent than I expected. Need new brain ...