Fictional wormhole science fiction television series
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The Cardiff Rift is a fictional wormhole in the science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood, one end of which is located in Cardiff Bay, Wales. The other end is apparently floating freely through spacetime, and matter and radiation can pass through the Rift, allowing extraterrestrial and extratemporal artifacts, and occasionally life-forms, to "wash up" in Cardiff.[1] It is described as "Unpredictable and elusive, it’s a gateway for alien creatures, alien weapons, all manner of alien technology and time anomalies to enter our world" and the "flotsam and jetsam of the universe since the dawn of time."[2]
The Rift has been featured in episodes of Doctor Who and is central to Torchwood, which concerns a branch of the Torchwood Institute created to monitor activity around the Rift. The Rift acts as a plot generator, providing a wide and potentially unlimited array of possible plots for the series, much like the Hellmouth in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Bajoran wormhole in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
^"Torchwood Institute: The Rift". 14 December 2006. Archived from the original on 14 December 2006. Retrieved 30 October 2006.
^"Torchwood Institute: What is the Rift?". 19 December 2006. Archived from the original on 19 December 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2006.
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land of the living alongside Ianto, but Ianto stays behind to close the CardiffRift forever with Jack's device. David-Lloyd has reprised the role of Ianto...
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and early feminist from 1953 who becomes stranded in 2007 due to the CardiffRift. She enters a relationship with Owen, and he falls in love with her....
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children stolen by the rift goes horribly wrong. In the series finale, Gwen's leadership skills allow her to co-ordinate Cardiff during the chaos caused...
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