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 11:30 pm (UTC)I agree! I kept waiting for them to sneak off into a dim, secluded corner so they could make out like crazy. Sadly, I got that *highly* unrealistic dancin' and kissin' scene instead.
Since I find John Barrowman incredibly sexy, I'll cut them some slack for going for a public snog rather than something more historically accurate (see above concerning kisses in the shadows!).
yeah, I'm pretty convinced that 'original' Capt. Jack was gaybashed on his way home from the dance, and didn't die in combat as originally described
And you know...I just realized (because I'm a doofus) that Jack really did change history. He hadn't met the man previously, so yeah, he just screwed holy hell out of the original timeline. It would be interesting to see that addressed at some point, that their kiss - while hot - had truly tragic consequences.