Torchwood: Dinner and a Show

Set entirely inside the Wales Millennium Centre (the frontage of which tended to feature quite heavily in Torchwood TV stories), this sees Tosh hoping for a night out at the opera, before being informed by Ianto in the opening teaser that the place is infested with aliens. The plot, it has to be said, is fairly thin and is only there as a vehicle to hang the character moments on. There are some pretty gruesome moments in it, too, justifying the usual adult rating of this audio series, along with overuse of the word “cock” as an expletive. Another negative is that Mori isn't very good at acting drunk (compared with, say, Eve Myles in Smashed) although fortunately this only applies for a short segment of the story.

The plus side is that the character moments this is built around are good. It fits neatly into a slot in the TV series where some of the character relationships were still developing, exploring those and reflecting on the power of music in between the alien shenanigans. Discovering the musical preferences of Ianto and Tosh as teenagers is quite amusing, for instance. The slight plot meant that it still didn't quite work for me, but there's enough positive in it to give 3.5 stars.