Torchwood. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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foxmonkeyOMG, Torchwood has completely jumped the shark. TOTALLY. I shall cut for spoileryness.
First of all...weh?
You know, it's a shame they didn't tie Owen's psychotic need to open the rift with his new Weevilishness -- that I could have swallowed. Or if he'd developed an undying loyalty to the team that drove him to save his teammembers from certain doom, destruction and rationing in WWII-era Cardiff. But come on, I'm supposed to swallow Owen the Uber-creep's sudden swing to a stalkerish kind of love for 1940's pilot girl? Uh, no. Sorry.
YAY! Ianto shot Owen! Boo, he didn't hit anything vital that would mean instant death, paralysis or a coma! The next time Jack talks to the Doctor and the Doctor's dismissive of the Torchwood team, Jack might want to take a step back and ask why.
YAY! Tosh being all competent and stuff! Boo, really crappily handled coincidences that Gwen would look in the most unlikely places EVAR to find the clues she left! Those plotholes were big enough for King Kong to slip through. Jeebus. Also, I've come to the conclusion that it's not the Tosh character that I can't swallow, it's the actress. She has two expressions: 1) Eyes open as wide as they can possibly go, and 2) Eyes not quite so open. Acting range of a teaspoon, folks.
YAY! Gwen didn't annoy me at all! There is no Boo here, believe it or not. This is the one episode where Gwen didn't royally piss me off. So again I say, YAY! Well, she did say that one little thing about not leaving Jack (what about Tosh?), but I'll overlook that in my sheer exuberance at being able to say GWEN DIDN'T BUG ME TONIGHT! Yay!
Last but certainly not least...No matter how much of the hot it was, I'm pretty sure that two military officers dancing, let alone kissing in public would not have ended well in the 1940s. Hey! Maybe we'll find out later that the square-jawed original Jack Harkness wasn't killed by the enemy, but was really gunned down by his own men??? (My money would be on the guy whose girlfriend tried to crucify Tosh.) Now there's a twist I wouldn't see coming!
Last one of the season next week! I'm excited to catch the fallout from this week's episode...
First of all...weh?
You know, it's a shame they didn't tie Owen's psychotic need to open the rift with his new Weevilishness -- that I could have swallowed. Or if he'd developed an undying loyalty to the team that drove him to save his teammembers from certain doom, destruction and rationing in WWII-era Cardiff. But come on, I'm supposed to swallow Owen the Uber-creep's sudden swing to a stalkerish kind of love for 1940's pilot girl? Uh, no. Sorry.
YAY! Ianto shot Owen! Boo, he didn't hit anything vital that would mean instant death, paralysis or a coma! The next time Jack talks to the Doctor and the Doctor's dismissive of the Torchwood team, Jack might want to take a step back and ask why.
YAY! Tosh being all competent and stuff! Boo, really crappily handled coincidences that Gwen would look in the most unlikely places EVAR to find the clues she left! Those plotholes were big enough for King Kong to slip through. Jeebus. Also, I've come to the conclusion that it's not the Tosh character that I can't swallow, it's the actress. She has two expressions: 1) Eyes open as wide as they can possibly go, and 2) Eyes not quite so open. Acting range of a teaspoon, folks.
YAY! Gwen didn't annoy me at all! There is no Boo here, believe it or not. This is the one episode where Gwen didn't royally piss me off. So again I say, YAY! Well, she did say that one little thing about not leaving Jack (what about Tosh?), but I'll overlook that in my sheer exuberance at being able to say GWEN DIDN'T BUG ME TONIGHT! Yay!
Last but certainly not least...No matter how much of the hot it was, I'm pretty sure that two military officers dancing, let alone kissing in public would not have ended well in the 1940s. Hey! Maybe we'll find out later that the square-jawed original Jack Harkness wasn't killed by the enemy, but was really gunned down by his own men??? (My money would be on the guy whose girlfriend tried to crucify Tosh.) Now there's a twist I wouldn't see coming!
Last one of the season next week! I'm excited to catch the fallout from this week's episode...
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Date: 2007-11-25 05:25 am (UTC)Ok, when did the Doctor and Jack meet up!? I missed it!!! :(
Not to be the stupid one but Cardiff had its own blitz? I never knew that.
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Date: 2007-11-25 05:48 am (UTC)I probably could have bought it if he hadn't been so freakin' manic about it. But honestly, it was ridiculously over the top. Again, if they tie it into his new Weevilishness next week, I'll be pleased because YAY! Owen's a bad guy now so it makes sense!
Ok, when did the Doctor and Jack meet up!? I missed it!!! :(
The Doctor's never been on Torchwood, but Jack's been on Doctor Who. Doc was pretty dismissive of the team, he called them Jack's "little band of alien catchers." I think Torchwood's been mentioned two or three times now, and never in a good light. Since Torchwood's so much darker than Who, and Who is thought of as a kid's show in the UK, I'd be really surprised if the Doctor did a cameo...which is too bad.
Not to be the stupid one but Cardiff had its own blitz? I never knew that.
Dude, me neither! I'm resisting the urge to ask my boyfriend Google for more information. ;-)
And because I'm obligated...YAYNESS! IT'S ALMOST MARTHA TIME ON TORCHWOOD!!!
DUDE! If you missed the Jack Harkness crossover episodes, he's in the last two or three of Who's season two, which just showed tonight. See if you can catch it in reruns! And if you miss it this week, check it out next Saturday.
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Date: 2007-11-25 06:16 am (UTC)And umm...no reprimand for the two boys who stayed at home & fought?! At least The Brady Boys knew "mom always said no playing ball in the house". BUT...they shoot and open a time rift and fck all is said!?!?!
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Date: 2007-11-25 10:26 pm (UTC)Eeek! Dude, I'm so sorry! I messed up; he's in the last two episodes of Christopher Eccleston's only season (season one of New Who): 'Bad Wolf' and 'The Parting of the Ways.'
And umm...no reprimand for the two boys who stayed at home & fought?! At least The Brady Boys knew "mom always said no playing ball in the house". BUT...they shoot and open a time rift and fck all is said!?!?!
I'm tellin' ya! Well, I wouldn't have yelled at Ianto anyway; Owen the stupidhead would have gotten an earful though! There'd better be some timeouts given next week!
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Date: 2007-11-26 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-26 12:26 am (UTC)No, he wasn't in S2 at all -- he may have been shooting Torchwood S1 then, and couldn't get away...?
He showed up for the last three eps of Who S3: Utopia, The Sound of Drums, and Last of the Time Lords. The first of those, Utopia, is where the Doctor disses Torchwood to Jack's face (unless I'm on crack and remembering incorrectly).
The Doctor's brushes with the various Torchwood incarnations have all been less than happy occasions, so it's no wonder he doesn't hold them in very high regard.
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Date: 2007-11-27 02:17 pm (UTC)I just can't get used to David's acting; it just seems so...maniac at times.