Torchwood: Day Three
Jul. 8th, 2009 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsGot myself composed enough to watch Children of Earth Day Three, so here's today's thoughts.
1. They did a pretty good job of covering up the fact that nothing actually happens in this episode. I mean, we regroup Torchwood and meet the 456 and whatnot, but this is really the equivalent of the camping chapters in Deathly Hallows, only with 100% less me wanting to bash my head into the wall. It dragged a bit towards the end (I'm actually starting on this while the episode's still playing), but for a Wednesday episode it fills space well enough.
2. OMG TORCHWOOD GONE ROGUE YES YES YES. Incidentally, I can't believe it's three episodes in and I still like Gwen, but she gets enough awesome points from thinking up the TORCHWOOD CRIME SPREE to cover at least five episodes worth of fail. Ianto stealing credit cards is...oddly cute. And Rhys getting into distracting fistfights! And of course Jack just drives off with someone's sports car.
3. Ianto deserves some sort of Alfred Butlering Award for getting blown up, shot at, chased, and driving a stolen forklift through a wall and still being perfectly turned out in his suit. And he remembered to buy coffee! And got his boss out of sweatpants and back into uniform, like a good boy. ALSO HA THIS ENTIRE FANDOM HAS A COAT FETISH AND THEY KNOW IT.
4. Jack's daughter is pretty damn awesome, even if she isn't very good at being sneaky and covert, and her son has clearly been trained well. He needs to team up with Ianto's niece and nephew (possibly they meet at the Sons of Don barbeques?) and form a gang of tiny alien fighters. PLEASE BBC. (Also, it is good to know that Jack more or less treats his workplace as a dating pool. That makes at least three TW employees he's hooked up with, including Ianto and that guy from the past in the novel?)
5. I find it interesting that Jack was willing to hand over a bunch of children to the 456 in the 60s, given how aggressively he fought giving Jasmine to the fairies until they threatened to destroy the world. Is it supposed to show how far he's come as an amoral dick (because of Torchwood's influence, or just life experience?), or were there other circumstances we'll find out about, or is it just one of Torchwood's famous plot holes?
6. The Jack/Ianto conversation was...weird. I mean, part of me was flailing like a shippy fangirl because YAY ANGST YAY EMOTIONS YAY SEX, but at the same time it felt sort of tacked on. Like they realized halfway through that Jack and Ianto's Emotional Issues were a big subplot of the series and threw something random in there without thinking it through. They've been together a season and a half, have they really not had this conversation yet? Still, Jack's pained acknowledgement that yes, someday Ianto will die and he'll go on with his life was a little heart-wrenching. OH MY BOYS.
In conclusion, to judge by Gwen and Ianto's conversation, working for Tochwood means using your stolen high-tech alien office supplies to spice up your sex life. Good to know!
1. They did a pretty good job of covering up the fact that nothing actually happens in this episode. I mean, we regroup Torchwood and meet the 456 and whatnot, but this is really the equivalent of the camping chapters in Deathly Hallows, only with 100% less me wanting to bash my head into the wall. It dragged a bit towards the end (I'm actually starting on this while the episode's still playing), but for a Wednesday episode it fills space well enough.
2. OMG TORCHWOOD GONE ROGUE YES YES YES. Incidentally, I can't believe it's three episodes in and I still like Gwen, but she gets enough awesome points from thinking up the TORCHWOOD CRIME SPREE to cover at least five episodes worth of fail. Ianto stealing credit cards is...oddly cute. And Rhys getting into distracting fistfights! And of course Jack just drives off with someone's sports car.
3. Ianto deserves some sort of Alfred Butlering Award for getting blown up, shot at, chased, and driving a stolen forklift through a wall and still being perfectly turned out in his suit. And he remembered to buy coffee! And got his boss out of sweatpants and back into uniform, like a good boy. ALSO HA THIS ENTIRE FANDOM HAS A COAT FETISH AND THEY KNOW IT.
4. Jack's daughter is pretty damn awesome, even if she isn't very good at being sneaky and covert, and her son has clearly been trained well. He needs to team up with Ianto's niece and nephew (possibly they meet at the Sons of Don barbeques?) and form a gang of tiny alien fighters. PLEASE BBC. (Also, it is good to know that Jack more or less treats his workplace as a dating pool. That makes at least three TW employees he's hooked up with, including Ianto and that guy from the past in the novel?)
5. I find it interesting that Jack was willing to hand over a bunch of children to the 456 in the 60s, given how aggressively he fought giving Jasmine to the fairies until they threatened to destroy the world. Is it supposed to show how far he's come as an amoral dick (because of Torchwood's influence, or just life experience?), or were there other circumstances we'll find out about, or is it just one of Torchwood's famous plot holes?
6. The Jack/Ianto conversation was...weird. I mean, part of me was flailing like a shippy fangirl because YAY ANGST YAY EMOTIONS YAY SEX, but at the same time it felt sort of tacked on. Like they realized halfway through that Jack and Ianto's Emotional Issues were a big subplot of the series and threw something random in there without thinking it through. They've been together a season and a half, have they really not had this conversation yet? Still, Jack's pained acknowledgement that yes, someday Ianto will die and he'll go on with his life was a little heart-wrenching. OH MY BOYS.
In conclusion, to judge by Gwen and Ianto's conversation, working for Tochwood means using your stolen high-tech alien office supplies to spice up your sex life. Good to know!