Torchwood:

Yeah, I was thinking Graham (is that what it was? I couldn't tell even on re-listen) was a son, so I'm thinking maybe too obvious. Little bro, though. That could work .

Torchwood: I wonder if even the boy was Cap'n Jack himself. There was a line or two in DW that hinted at Jack's past, and that the potential of his story was finding out who'd erased his memories of his past, and why. I wonder if this is it, or something completely new and different.

Julie, I should have made that connection. We do have that blank space even in his own knowledge of himself.

eta: I say that because I've been on about the issue (not here, I think, but mentally), not out of any comparison between myself and yourself and I re-read and thought, "Oh, that could be guac-y."

Deb, "guac-y"? I like avacados.

I had always thought that any spin-off would (or even, should) follow-up on that tidbit, since it seemed so important in DW, even though not followed-up-on in that series. Even in the interviews for the DW series with JB, that fact kept coming up.

Of course, now it won't be it at all.

Another thing I liked about TW 2.1 is how Captain John's character really gets the horror of not being able to die: living through the pain and trauma of dying, and coming backk to do it all over again. I thought that was a nice touch. A nice character moment.

I would claim Ianto Jones for myself, forever and always, but I think Dana would kill me if I tried anything.

Conditioning from years of my favorite shows and writers makes me fear for Ianto's life if I swoon too much for the cutiehead date talk.

I'm puzzled by the fact that I don't find Ianto that appealing, but Gareth David-Lloyd in out-of-character interviews is smoking hot.

Oh, Ianto.

My criticism of the Spikelikeness of JM's character was mostly about the writing, and not so much in the way it was played. There's referencing, and there's overdoing it. But I seem to be in the minority, which is fair enough.