Torchwood - Dead Man Walking

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• I don't know why, but I thought this one was utter crack. Owen's a Zombie!! YAYS!! None of it made any freaking sense, but THIS IS TORCHWOOD!! This episode made me realise just to what extent I have embraced the idea that this show is a complete no-brainer. STOP DISCUSSING PLOT HOLES!! Turn off your mind and watch the craptacular gay show on the level you're meant to be watching it already. JOIN ME.


• Owen was a zombie. I can't tell you how much that made me laugh. And there was another glove. THEY COME IN PAIRS! I sometimes get the distinct impression Ianto knows more than he's letting on about these sorts of things. I feel my l33t manwhorespy theories bubbling up again.


• Having said that, I don't like the supernatural/religious stuff in TW, I think it jars greatly and they really should stick to the alien-baddie-of-the-week formula. Adam showed that there are plenty of places you can go with the alien baddie format without it needing to contain CGI or costuming. It's a simple premise that you can take in any direction you like, the spirit world mumbo-jumbo never really seems to hit the right note. (I've totally retconned myself on Abbadon, srsly, I just pretend that never happened, it makes it far easier to cope with life) I don't know why, it just doesn't seem to work for me.


• Umm... was I meant to be thinking the gloves were Jack's and formed part of the suit of armour on the tarot card? Or am I going wayyyy too far again with the thinkage and the forgetting to turn my brain off?


• There was funstuffs with a walking glove and Ianto and a hockey stick and it all made me LOL.


• Most importantly, though: OWEN IS 27??? What the FUCK?? I'm sorry, but I thought he was thirtysomething, young thirtysomething perhaps, but thirtysomething nonetheless. Is that fanon, then?? Wasn't there actual fact backing up their ages, even if they were ballpark ages? I thought it was established that he was a kid in the eighties or something. Not BORN IN THE FUCKING EIGHTIES. NO WAI. Help me out here, that really bugged me. That and the other half shouting "27? AND THE REST!" at the screen.

Oh, and Darryn keeps going on about Barrowman's hair and since yesterday has taken to going "Look at my fabulous wig!" at the telly whenever he's in shot. I'm starting to wonder now what the hell IS going on with his hair. Darryn didn't buy my theory that Jack uses Ianto's spunk in lieu of 'product'.

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[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I heard it is A WIG, but that could be A SCANDALOUS LIE.

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I THINK IT IS NOT A LIE!!!

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I saw him on YouTube in curlers singing I Am What I Am. That is the only thing that make me doubt wig.

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I am torn now between waniong to go find and watch that in the name of skience and wanting to avoid it like the plague because I know it will make my eyes bleed. Grrr.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

OWEN IS 27??? What the FUCK?? I'm sorry, but I thought he was thirtysomething, young thirtysomething perhaps, but thirtysomething nonetheless. Is that fanon, then?? Wasn't there actual fact backing up their ages, even if they were ballpark ages? I thought it was established that he was a kid in the eighties or something. Not BORN IN THE FUCKING EIGHTIES. NO WAI.

that really bugged me too. and this is why it really bugged me: it smacked of that old marketing adage that if you've over 30, the young kids don't wanna know. which is complete and utter bullshit - write a good character (as they finally did last night), and the audience - anyone in the audience - will like them regardless of how fucking old they are.

sheesh. next they're gonna be trying to tell us that jack's only 29, or something.

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It bugged me for the same reason (also, if we're having the discussion: why did Martha get ALL OLD?? What is it with being ALL OLD that seems to be such a HUGE SCARY CONCEPT in the Whoniverse?? I digress.) The freaking show itself has encompassed nearly two years by now and we're meant to be thinking Owen's been working there for a while when Gwen arrives in Episode 1, so yet again (like Ianto at TW1, or are they going to start telling me Ianto's OLDER than Owen now??) Owen seems to have been recruited to Torchwood at like 21 or something. When did he have time to become a fully qualified doctor FFS??? BULLSHIT.

I call ageist shenanigans.

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

the only possible semi-legitimate reason i can think of for making him 27 is that it seems to be some sort of magic number for dying young: ie, janis joplin, jimi hendrix, jim morrison, etc.

but when your actor very obviously ISN'T 27, not remotely, then it does begin to smack of a desperately insecure youth-obsessed production team, which is really unattractive. come on, guys, let owen be 32...he's earned a bit of maturity, i think.

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And, srsly, I thought there was canon backing me up somewhere, but I can't for the life of me work out where or what that might have been.

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

maybe it was in one of the novels? i get that feeling too, but can't cite a specific example either.