Torchwood

[tencrush]

Right, get it out of the way first of all: Ianto. Being a bit macho and manly. For some reason. Yes. OK. HAPPYINMYFAYCE. And then he disappeared. Woe. (Inkling number one: That whole him calling Jack "sir" all the time is a Big Ruse. If we were to ever discover the exact nature of their relationship, which we won't, because it ain't a porn flick, I think we would find it is the other way around. Mark my words.) ANYWAY.

Gwen's great isn't she? Everyone is in love with Gwen, and so they should be. Man, why do they always have to foist this shit on us? I just don't get it. I like Owen more than I like Gwen and that's saying something. Am I, yet again, not quite the target demographic here? Is it just that Rose thing all over again, where I'm not relating to her because I can't identify even though Rusty clearly thinks I should? Oh, and she was horrible to Eugene while he was alive. He should have just poked her with sticks from the afterlife. Get a spine, Eugene!

So, yes, this one was Love and Monsters. And I liked it on that level, just as I quite liked Love and Monsters, except it didn't quite work as well, because I don't think we've really established enough of an insider's PoV to start coming at Torchwood from the outsider's PoV, you know? Or, rather, what I mean is, they've been using Gwen as the outsider's PoV up until fairly recently, so it's not as if the tone shifted dramatically.

There were some cracking lines in it, mainly from the two guys who set him up. I actually laughed at bits. Don't, of course, remember what they were, but bits did make me laugh.

I dislike Jack more and more with each passing episode. This is not good. I don't think I'm meant to be doing that. Or am I?? Admittedly, a lot of this is down to the fact that I have an extreme dislike for Barrowman's toothy face. I lose at being objective.


I had something else important to say, but it has temporarily escaped my mind.

Comments

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

Xactly. There is no need to have an episode with a wide-eyed innocent observing the gang from inside, cos Gwen does that. Boringly. While her niceness is dictated to us at tedious length.

FFS, if you have to have Owen pointing out how heavy-handed her 'I am the heart' shtick is, you have a problem.

I will ignore that though and just go Mm, Ianto for a bit. Half-heartedly cos actually he mings a bit and is hardly ever in it. But still.

[tencrush]

Oh, I forgot about that Owen thing, yeah. That was teh funneh. Even within the TW verse, her perfect humanness gets on people's nerves. YAY!!!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHKKKHKHKHKHKH barf

Still, I liked Ianto's shirt.

[tencrush]

It was nice, yes. He was all butch. There should have been more of him.

Don't you love Gwen? You're supposed to be loving Gwen here. Get with the program, Kate. Everyone loves Gwen.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Gwen is a robot. In the finale, she goes berserk and tries to kill them all. They end up using her head as a paperweight.

[tencrush]

That explains that spoiler pic. Not the one with the holster.
*sighs*

See, now you've made me go thinking about boysex again. Shame on you, Kate!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Have you seen GDL in Absolute Power? He's a bit pretty.

[tencrush]

Just a bit, yes. But thinking that whilst watching it again (because I totally did not register him when it was on, though I do remember thinking he was a bit pretty) made me feel like a bit of a paedo.

I don't want to be licking my lips at toyboy material just yet. I'm far too young.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I've caught myself eyeing even younger men on busses. Gods help me, I'm turning inot Germaine Greer!

[tencrush]

On buses, you say? I should try and get on those more.

There are worse people to be turning into, I suppose.