I must add to the Ianto love! Between the re-enactment of heads exploding to the subtle offering of an arm to Gwen to the oh so awesome telephone rant and telling Jack that he was "very fearsome" and a billion other adorable things this ep, he is so so very awesome this season so far. As was the whole ep. And then I cried at the end. Made me think of the Doctor as his turn as John Smith and the life and love he had to sacrifice to return to who he originally was. Not who he truly was, but originally. So fucking sad. And this Torchwood ep just reaffirmed how true and valid John Smith's life was, which was probably why the extra tears.

Wow. There are some wildly divergent opinions about Torchwood 2.02 elsewhere. Will need to rewatch as I evidently missed much of Ianto's snark with the irritating compression issues.

Suffice it to say, it pinged some of my buttons, but I need to suss out some of the excellent discussion elucidating some potential transatlantic mistranslation.

I did like Ianto's tie, though. That's not a spoiler, right? That Ianto had a cunning tie?

Ianto's continued rant about how he knew everthing was both somewhat annoying and also endearing. He's a whole new Ianto. /from someone who was emotionally incapable of watching the entirety of season 1.

Because.

It.

Was.

Horrible.

I'm liking how they're fitting the humor into the angst and darkness. DW always had that, so I was surprised to see a lack of it first season. But two eps in season two is rocking my socks with the well-excecuted balance. *knocks on wood* (If the rest of the season sucks, I'm so very very sorry.).

I thought she more than snogged her. Also, I thought the alien did not so much possess the woman as wear her remains as a costume.

I think perhaps you are thinking of Tosh. Tosh had a smokin' hot blonde girlfriend who turned out to be an alien in a person-suit. Gwen, on the other hand, snogged the possessed-by-sex-fiend-alien chick (called Cerys, iirc, who lived with her dad and turned menfolk to dust on the point of orgasm) in Episode 2 of Season 1. Said chick was eventually rescued by Our Heroes, and her alien possessor killed.

edited to spoilerfont, just to be sure that nobody is inadvertently spoiled for series 1

It's hard to keep the sex-obsessed alien possessions straight on Torchwood. It's like that time someone asked about "that X-Files episode with a cannibalistic monster."

I was thinking of the episode Fay is talking about.

I think I'm going to start blaming all my problems on sex-crazed aliens. Forgot to take the trash out? Sorry, distracted by sex-crazed alien. Late making the house payment? Whoops, sex-crazed alien.

That would help explain why Pat Buchanan is so adamant about walling off the border.

Forgot to take the trash out? Sorry, distracted by sex-crazed alien. Late making the house payment? Whoops, sex-crazed alien.

That or evil HAND!