Torchwood - Adrift

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THOUGHTS ABOUT ADRIFT...

• Ummm... Andy was in it! LOTS! And he called Rhys fat!! Go Andy. After this episode I can quite truthfully say I'd be MORE THAN HAPPY with Andy as a part of Torchwood. It's just Gwen who looks down on him and thinks he's shit. Boo, Gwen, boo.


• Ah, but there's the rub: ANDY'S IN LOVE WITH GWEN. Why is EVERYONE always in love with Gwen? What on earth does the woman possess??? Please explain it to me. I can't IMAGINE Andy being in love with Gwen. In my ideal world Andy would get it on with Tosh and they would BOTH be TOTALLY HAPPY. Forever. Poor Tosh.


• Rhys was in it! And being manly! I was indifferent towards Rhys when this season started and now I love him to bits.


• I actually quite liked this one. The moral being that sometimes Jack does spooky mysterious things which are FOR THE BEST, and sometimes it's perhaps better to just leave him to it.


• I'm intrigued by Ianto. Again. He obviously knows that Jack does spooky mysterious things, and he knows where he does them. The question is, did Ianto know what they were? In which case, did Ianto and Jack elaborately set Gwen up? Or did Ianto just see in Gwen a handy opportunity to investigate said things behind Jack's back? Either there is more to the relationship than meets the eye, or there is far more to the manwhorespy aspect of Ianto's character than has been revealed. Either way, I'm intrigued.


• And then there was THAT SCENE. Really, in my mind, two scenes. Scene One involving Gwen walking in on what is quite possibly the most unambiguous sex act I have ever seen on television. Which was, let's face it, played FOR LAUGHS. And it was quite amusing and made me giggle profusely. Handjobs in the Hub, yes, anyone who tries to tell me there's significanty more to this relationship that LULS, weevils and handjobs in the Hub, is WRONG. Having said that, I believe Jack may be more in love with Ianto than I have been giving him credit for. The whole thing reeked of giddy teenage lust, and despite the fact that it didn't, on paper, actually disprove my doubts about there not being any depth to the relationship, the giddy young love aspect actually surprised me. There may yet be more to this kinkfest than meets my jaded eye.


• How good was that second bit though? I'm talking purely visually here, there was something really horny about Ianto actually PUTTING HIS CLOTHES ON. I couldn't help but think as he slowly hid his manflesh from my probing eyes that he was WANTONLY TEASING US. With smirks and everything. Take that, fangirls! I mock you with my buttons!! Bless.


• And then Gwen intrudes on the action and immediately Jack goes a bit weird. Again. The threesome joke I could understand, he wasn't offering her a threesome, he knew she wouldn't take him up on it, it was A JOKE, and I didn't find it offensive to her, or to Ianto, or anything like that. (It's the sort of remark I'd normally pounce on as PROOF JACK DOESN'T LOVE HIM, but I'm not so sure anymore) But, having said that, his cocky attitude towards her and the fact that he didn't even bother doing his trousers up? Either he's flaunting what she's missing at her, or he's just being INCREDIBLY RUDE. Either way, way to look like a bit of a dick again, Jack. What was up with that?


• The one week later bit? The woman whose life was effectively RUINED by Gwen? That really upset me and I kept hoping Ianto would ring her doorbell with a big, frothy retcon milkshake. And that didn't happen, which made me sad. I was actually genuinely sad for her. Downer.


• Pie status: undecided, perhaps a slight pie resurgence here and there.

All in all, a solid episode and one of my favourites so far.

ETA: JUST REALISED THOUGH: WTF??? Jack wears PANTS??? That just seems so... unlikely to me.

Comments

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Unless of course Ianto is too damaged to want love from someone again. Or Ianto feels that he's not worthy of love from Jack. Or...this is the problem with Ianto being in love with Jack while Jack has been silent on the subject. It's too easy (given how Ianto's character has been portrayed as someone with an essentially serious nature) to start psychoanalyzing him. If Ianto is fine with this and things are truly fine, the writers perhaps need to make a more explicit caes for that.

I for one am starting to hope that series 3 features some nice young girl or boy who falls hard for Ianto. PC Andy anyone?

ETA: Edited to fix my atrocious spelling.

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He seemed to play it as love so heavily at the beginning of the series, especially Adam kind of cemented that for me. I find it intriguing that he seems satisfied with the current state of affairs and I maintain that that must mean there is more to the relationship from Jack's side than we are being shown. Or Ianto has suddenly developed a new Agenda. I think we may find out more about where they currently stand on Friday.

Though I am saddened to see that in THAT trailer cap Ianto is wearing a suit, and it is therefore obviously now, and not a flashback. Maybe I did my preemptive dance too soon. :(

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Well, I noticed the suit too. Do you think that definitely means it is the present? From what I understand, manwhorespy is STALKING Jack. So I figured there might be more than one scene. Potentially one scene where the manwhorespy uses his Weevil killing prowess and tight jeans to first introduce himself to Jack, then a followup meeting where he comes up with the plan to capture Myfanwy where manwhorespy wears a suit & brings coffee because he considers it a job interview for a position at TW Cardiff.

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God, I hope so. I'd like there to have been that much panting going on that early on in their relationship.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

Seriously. It would be SO Ianto to show up in a suit with coffee if he were trying to get Jack to give him a job. If it doesn't play that way, I'm rewriting it in fanfic and forgetting what the damn episode shows me.

Panting. Panting while lying full on top of Jack. Now that's sexy. No pie or manboobs in sight.