Torchwood - From Out Of The Rain

[tencrush]

Now, now, now, now, now, let's not all go crazy here, maybe we can focus on the POSITIVES of this piss-poor excuse for an episode, yes?



Remember how Something Borrowed turned me into a moany grumpy guts? Let's see if, in contrast, From Out Of The Rain, can CHEER ME RIGHT UP AGAIN.

• Well... for a start Ianto's in it quite a bit. AND AND AND AND... not quite so fat? Has it passed, the pie-phase, was it really only 3 or 4 episodes? Come on, people, THIS IS A GOOD THING. FOCUS ON THE GOOD THINGS.


• ANOTHER GOOD THING: Jack and Ianto can be in a room together and TALK, and look! THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT COCK! AGAIN, PEOPLE, THIS IS A GOOD THING. (Just ignore the fact that we're actually being shown the depths to which their joint depravity will sink, I mean, really... INFODUMPING ON EACH OTHER? EWWWW.) But yes, they did talking, and no double entendres in sight. Funnily enough, this is actually what I've been waiting for for about a month now, and here it is. Shame it sucked, of course, but that's another matter.


• MOAR GOOD THINGS: ...



• Nah, fuck, I've got NOTHING. This could have been SO GOOD, the story had so much promise. There were SPOOKY CARNIES in it, for fuck's sake. How did they manage to end up NOT SCARY?? Damn you!


• JACK HAS BACKSTORY! AGAIN! And yet again, PJ Hammond manages to kind of dump it on us like a big turd with no real... impact. HE KILLED HIMSELF FOR LULS AND CASH!!! How GOOD, potentially, is that as a bit of history and insight into the man, yes? No? OK, then, let's just not take it anywhere and try and talk our way through the plot again. Fuck you, Hammond!!


• IANTO HAS BACKSTORY! Lord knows he doesn't very often, and there seems to be a vague vibe hanging around him at the moment that his family are ALL DEAD, yes?? Let's see if we can take that somewhere, shall we? No? Fine. Let's not.


• Seriously, I don't know what the fuck was going on when it comes to the plot thing, it was EXACTLY like the fairies one, there were logical leaps from clifftops into chasms of absolute nonsense. It was something to with water, and there was a bottle of breaths and everyone seemed to suddenly know EXACTLY how that all fit in, and they were trapped on film and then they weren't, but then they were again because of... something? And they used to be evil and they keep people in a shed of some sort and what happened again and oh, everyone died and Ianto cries real tears because I forgot, I lied last time, each season must now contain TWO EPISODES in which Ianto cries like a girl. Because he's TWICE AS HOMEOSEXUAL now as he was last season, I forgot, and yes, I know I typed homeosexual then but I don't fucking care.

Don't let PJ Hammond near my big gay show again. That is all. Oh, and, lol, Ianto doesn't check the weather report and carry a brolly? DO ME A FAVOUR, THE BOY'S NEVER BEEN CAUGHT IN THE RAIN IN HIS LIFE. He takes his clothes far too seriously for that.

Comments

[tencrush]

The fayce has improved, though, that's all I was worried about, the precious, precious face.

Even Gareth didn't know where to go in a couple of scenes, but overall he made a good job of the dross he was given.

[off_coloratura]

Unlike Barrowman, who was SWIMMING IN CHEESINESS.

[tencrush]

I don't even comment about Barrowman anymore. He has this tone that he takes when he's given EXPOSITION and he seems to think he has to deliver EXPOSITION like a schoolteacher, and not, like, subtly, or anything, to maybe try to disguise the fact that it's EXPOSITION. HE FAILS SO BADLY ON SO MANY LEVELS.

[off_coloratura]

I wonder how much worse it is before the editors cut it together.

Apparently there is an actress on some police procedural who would look like an UTTER ASS if it weren't for EXTREMELY selective editing. A film student friend of mine got some dailies of the show for an editing class and they all got to watch this actress look like a tool in the rough cuts.

If not even editing can save us from Barrowman's bluster, it's pretty bad indeed.

[tencrush]

Yeah, it's pretty dire. I have no words. Next week's looks promising, but then it's very heavy on the Jack, and I feel Barrowman will ruin it and even the vague rumours of ACTUAL BEDSCENE aren't exciting me after this abomination.

[off_coloratura]

At least we'll always have the show we write in our imaginations, which is a million times better.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

He's less annoying when he's with Ianto, though. I think GDL exerts some sort of dampening effect on JB. Unlike EM, who seems to bring out the cheese.

Jack seems to be minus his undershirt and with a very open collar in one scene in the promo. Perhaps just leaving bed?? We can only hope.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

Little-known fact: part of the method acting GDL uses to play Ianto is the Special Dampening Field of Mellowness he exerts on his fellow cast members. Perhaps he drugs the coffee.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sounds plausible. Or maybe he stuns them into silence through the power of his cuteness.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

It's the buttony nose.

[kurthummel.livejournal.com]

Yessss, the jawline is creeping itself back in, and we are very, very appreciative of this!

Isn't it a shame that both episodes that have kinda mostly featured Ianto are the cheesiest or the most soppy? I don't know. The more I think about Cyberwoman, the more I like it, but there was no excuse for this bullshit. I think I liked Random Shoes more than this.

[tencrush]

I always kind of liked Random Shoes. *hides* And I liked Cyberwoman because I couldn't shift the image of Ianto ON HIS KNEES for MONTHS. It got me through some tough times, I can tell ya.

[kurthummel.livejournal.com]

I like Random Shoes more now that I've seen all that can go wrong with an episode, aka Out of the Rain. *facedeskpalmwall*

And oh. You might have a point there about Cyberwoman.

[tencrush]

Pretty boy like that, on his knees. Like this. It's the sort of thing that makes up for a lot.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

It makes the baby Ianto cry that he gets the horrible, cheesy episodes. I think the writers do this on purpose since CC seems to love these types of eps.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Oh, the deer-in-headlights and confuzzled look made quite a few appearances. Not that I can blame him. I was making the same faces at home.

PJ Hammond sucks.