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.