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Re: Torchwood.
I'm still wondering why they felt the need to do a show whose ultimate theme was "letting go". Is this somehow an essential theme for the season? Will we be watching further developments of the theme? Daniel breathed a sigh of relief that at least it did not have the same ending as every other similar ep. of every other sci fi show ever.
Windsparrow, what ending was Daniel expecting it to have? I wasn't puzzled by the episode's theme, but to tie it into the rest of the season, I'd say the major theme is death, and how we approach and accept it.
I liked a lot of things about this episode. The scene where the dad goes to visit his son in the nursing home was very affecting, and I liked the friendship between Gwen and the younger woman. (Can't remember any of their names!) Actually, the scene with Gwen explaining modern attitudes toward sex was really great, with Gwen's hilarious faces and earnest attempt to be both honest & forthright and also protective & cautious. I liked the two of them together the best. Owen/pilot lady, enh. I'm still too creeped out by Owen to buy that he feels that strongly about this woman he just met -- no matter how awesome she is -- or to feel like I should care about his sorrow. I did like the scene where he confessed to her that he was scared, but it didn't feel quite right for the character. I thought he was still being manipulative, but then it seemed like we were supposed to believe that he was genuinely in love with her. Although the look on his face when she shut the door of the plane on him was perfectly awful: cold and mean and bitter. That was well-played, and was the only moment when I really saw how he felt about her.
We also got to see a side of Jack that hasn't been shown much so far, a more vulnerable, less cocky guy, which I liked. And I thought John Barrowman really sold the scenes with the dad when he's trying to talk him out of killing himself, and then when he acquiesces and lets the dad die: Captain Jack Harkness, the spirit guide, the Angel of Death, who'll carry you there himself but can never walk through the gate with you. It felt a bit contrived, like a lot of things about this show, but ultimately it worked for me.
HA! That was awesome.
I liked this week's Torchwood. I feel like saying that's two in a row that aren't the formula, but then I'd need to check and see if they have one. Still, this one was strictly and obviously about people, with scarce tech, and just one sci-ficcery part to the beginning. The rest was--belonging. Starting, finishing, suspending the sentence incomplete. I think Barrowman did his best job of the season--but I haven't minded him as much as most. There was one outburst sceene in a previous episode that was appallingly bad, but I haven't minded (or loved) his deeply felt emotional moments so far.
Santa is a Cylon (YouTube video): >[link]Jen, you win!
Why must the episode descriptions for Doctor Who suck so much? I mean, Scifi doesn't even play the promo for the next episode at the end of the show - but there is a major plot point in the description of the episode on the Scifi.com front page.
Sigh.
Oh, le sigh! If it makes you feel any better, sumi, that plot point is given away in the teaser.
I watched the promo. But surely they could have promoted the war between the Daleks and Cybermen without mentioning that?
Hmm, this week's Torchwood was nice.