Killing Torchwood   By Noah Michelson  On the other hand,
there's something lacking: the spirit of the original series
which seems to have been spruced up for its BBC1 debut with a
dose of seriousness and accessibility. There's no room for
silliness in this Torchwood universe where the worst culprits
are not the aliens, but the governments of the world, ruled by
fear and a sense of self-preservation. Torchwood, no matter its
agenda, never struck us as a realistic portrayal of human life,
no matter the fantastic situations and creatures and the campy
fun has been all but drained from the three lone survivors of
Torchwood 3 -- Jack, Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd), Gwen (Eve
Myles) and Rhys (Kai Owen) -- Gwen's hubby don't even stick
around Cardiff long as all the action is in London. Death and
destruction are the order of the week as children are used as
456 mouthpieces and other, more sinister, purposes, Jack gets
tortured physically and emotionally to the breaking point, and
the team takes another casualty and ro