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So, yeah. Jack's seeming inconsistency doesn't seem inconsistent at all to me.
That's pretty much how I see it too. Jack's love for Gwen, based so largely on her being a normal human being with things like empathy and a boyfriend, is un-actable on sexually. It leaves Mr. Libido pining like an Austen heroine. I find the whole thing delicious.
Please let that be US iTunes too!
Dead Ringers does Torchwood. I think they're a touch unkind, and a bit brash. But I wish I could have read those name badges.
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and now John Barrowman's extra swishiness of his trenchcoat and declaration of his bright shining teeth in whatever it was I'd watched (Torchwood Confidential?) makes total sense.
ita:
Owen: "Annoying"
Ianto: "Dull and annoying"
Jack: "Camp and annoying"
Gwen: "Welsh"
Thanks, Invisible! I'd only managed to catch Gwen's. Yes, more ungentle with the show than I would be.
Hmm. I loved loved loved Ianto as badass, although I do wonder why he was only the officeboy before all this. I rewound to check, and the best I could make out was that he said, "Pray there are five," and I couldn't figure out what it meant.
I HATE the Jack/Gwen thing, partly because it feels unsupported and partly because Gwen seems to be dangerously close to Mary-Suedom for me. But even more do I hate the Tosh yearning. That feels supported, but makes me cringe to the extent I didn't want to watch. Seriously, Tosh! GET THE MESSAGE! Please! You're hurting me!
As for the alien... er. I don't quite see how Owen knew how to euthanize it (one dose sedates, but if that doesn't work just double the dose and you get death? With unknown alien physiology? Sounds like zat-gun convenience to me). I suppose Torchwood was trapped and endangered by the thrashing, but that was all very confusingly shot. I don't know, the whole thing was weird to me. Gwen/Rhys was lovely, and I adore Ianto. Otherwise, eh.
one dose sedates, but if that doesn't work just double the dose and you get death? With unknown alien physiology? Sounds like zat-gun convenience to me
I thought he threw togethter a bunch of poisons (not the sedative they were using) because he knew the tranq wouldn't work.
Ooookay. I guess. But also, the thing was gimongous. He would have to be using the alien equivalent of polonium!
Do not understand where Jack's crush on Gwen came from unless it's because she seems to be the only peson not crushing on him. That, or it's fallout from Gwen refusing to give up on Jack coming back to life the last episode of season 1. But whatever it is, I shouldn't have to work this hard to make it sensical.
god yes. It's so forced! And the actors are doing the right things, saying the lines right, etc. but, it still doesn't ring true.
I think it was "Pray they survive."
I thought it was "pray he survives" i.e. Rhys.