One of, if not the best, of the Torchwood Radio Dramas and even better than some of the episodes in the TV series itself. If you are a fan of the Jack and Ianto relationship you simply NEED to give this a listen. Also Barrowman and Lloyd do an amazing job with the voice acting, hitting all the right emotional notes. The misdirection is masterful and the story is truly beautiful once it gets going. Twist and turns are thrown at you ending in an emotional punch in the gut that will leave you crying for hours on end. There's not much I can say about this radio drama without spoiling everything that makes it brilliant other than that nothing about this story is what it seems. In fact, this story adds to it, in a truly beautiful way tying up loose ends. This radio drama has flavors of a "fix fic" but in a way that doesn't invalidate the emotion behind Children of Earth: Day Four or Russell T.
Like most fanfiction there were great ones to be found, but most were hackish and uninspired. After the Torchwood miniseries Children Of Earth a lot of these sprung up trying to "fix" the fates of Ianto Jones and Jack Harkness in the fourth and fifth episodes. These are stories that take something that happened in canon the author of the fic didn't agree with, and try to change it so it's "better" than the original. Definitely worth a read.In fanfiction there's a sub genre known as the "fix fic". While "Golden Age" is a simple, straightforward tale on the surface, the standard plot hides eerily effective character exploration and is written with beautiful prose with true Goss standards.
Jack is also the perfect character to torment it's always fascinating to see his charming, humane facade grumble and reveal the guilt of a dangerous old man who has lost too much. The setting is quite perfect here, so much so that I wished the book had been a bit longer just for the reader to get a deeper sense of India.
On site Jack is confronted with his past in the India branch of Torchwood during the colonial era and has to face some of his demons in order to save local society. The novel takes the Torchwood team- post Tosh and Owen- into Delhi, where a number of people have disappeared under peculiar circumstances. "Golden Age" is such a tale, but it's a very good story nonetheless. James Goss is one of the most innovative and talented Doctor Who / Torchwood writers out there, so whenever he delivers a more standard tale I feel a bit disappointed.
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