DAY ONE

[tencrush]

So I DO have a few thoughts on Children of Earth, Day One, and I DO have ten minutes to write them down, but probs not to comment. They're randomly here below the cut.

• I'm finding Ianto's extremely working class roots kind of hot. I feel like Jarvis Cocker. But yeah, Ianto's three-piece-suitedness suddenly aquires a whole new depth when you see where he's come from. Giving Ianto new levels of depth probably doesn't bode well, though.


• Ianto's dorky what-the-fuck-are-we, do-we-hug-when-you-die-? position in the Jack/Ianto relationship was really fucking cute.


• Having said this, I thought we'd established that Ianto was bisexual. Perhaps not out but certainly a guy who knows about himself that he's attracted to both sexes. I always quite loved this about Ianto, as I've said before, because I loved the fact that he was bisexual but not a televisual bisexual-who-sleeps-around stereotype. Now we find out that he seems to view himself as hetero, it's just that Jack's that awesome. I was spoiled for this episode, so I knew this was happening, but it still grated on me when it did. First of all because it annoys me that someone can't just be bisexual on the telly, like bi is such a bad thing to be. Secondly, obviously, because it feeds that tired slash trope of I'm-not-gay-I-just-love-your-cock that I really fucking hate. And last but not least, it is, once again, that Russell thing of using one character to tell me just how awesome another character is (oh, and the one doing the telling, that one'll probably die to prove it, yeah?) There just seems to me to be no narrative reason to make Ianto gay-only-for-Jack, other than to establish the awesome power of Jack's cock. I wish they'd just make Jack be more awesome instead of resorting to this. Gah.


• Gwen gets more awesome as time goes by. Her pregnant-is-that-good-yes-I-think-so face was for the win.


• Lois is SPUNKY and INQUISITIVE and KINDA CUTE and if we don't get to keep her I will be VERY VERY ANGRY. She's going to die, isn't she?


• Is the big bad, apart from the 456 which is alien, some sort of rogue team of evil civil servants? Is it significant that Ianto's sister calls him a civil servant? Is it an anti-UNIT? I know Russell likes this whole let's-keep-a-nice-broad-grey-area thing regarding who, exactly, in the government-Torchwood-UNIT-other axis are the good guys and who the bad guys, but I wish he'd make his mind up just a wee bit more. Especially when it comes to UNIT.


• That honeymoon thing just read to me as "LOLS, she ain't never coming back to the 'verse, we don't really like the girl." I've never really been fond of Agyeman, but I can imagine those who were were perhaps a bit miffed?


• I'm going to end my sentences with the phrase "and I've got tupperware" more often from now on.

Comments

[tencrush]

Unsubtle foreshadowing says he's toast. And if all this shiz ISN'T foreshadowing, I have to conclude Russell's on crack.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

To me it looks a lot like a classic "boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy gets boy" structure. :)

[tencrush]

Even the line about dying like a dog? Cause that one doesn't fit anywhere in that structure as far as I'm aware. :P

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

No, admittedly, that is rather alarming...

[tencrush]

:/

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

"An ugly dog! As opposed to, say, a sexually desirable poodle!"

... come to think of it, it would be a fun twist if Ianto's mayfly status (as both mortal and doomed Torchwoob) is what eventually makes Jack commit to him. They don't have long, better make the best of it.

(I wonder if Alice's mum is the bride in the photo from The Bride Is Packing Something Borrowed?)