Everything Changes (Torchwood) Everything Changes (Torchwood) "Everything Changes" is the first episode of the British science fiction television programme "Torchwood", which was first broadcast on 22 October 2006. The story was written by show creator and executive producer Russell T Davies as an introduction to the show's mythos. The episode re-introduces Captain Jack Harkness, who had proved popular in the first series of the 2005 revival of "Doctor Who", as the leader of Torchwood, a team of alien hunters. The story is told from the perspective of Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles), who comes across the Torchwood team through her job as a police
Torchwood to the portrayal of same-sex relationships in "Torchwood". Maria Boyd of the University of Texas at Austin published her paper at a conference, "Gay Sex and Aliens! How the Press frames Russell T Davies' "Torchwood"." She argues through "a discourse analysis of 109 reviews of the Series 1 and Series 2 premiere episodes" how "TV critics are more concerned with the depictions of bisexuality among the principal characters on "Torchwood"." Furthermore, she argues that the show's reviews "highlight the same-sex interactions depicted on the show utilising sensationalist, assimilationist, or condemnatory language" and that the "hegemonic, heterosexist language used by TV