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kalihaSo, week two. After the riproaring start of last week it really did have a lot to live up to and I think on the whole it did quite well.
Torchwood is ready....
No you're not! Not even close. You may be able to improvise saving the world with a couple of toilet rolls and some sticky-backed plastic, but when the worst comes to the worst the Doctor's still going to come along and save you. Bless. But you get points for trying.
It's a horrible position to be in
I really can't imagine anything worse. Burglars in your house, your other half knocked out and only a bedside lamp as a weapon.
Luckily here come Team Torchwood to the rescue
Unfortunately they're a bit late and now one burglar is dead and the other is doubling as a bonnet ornament on a police car. Maybe it'll catch on, it's a bit more noticeable than the flashing blue lights and the siren.
The Moider Weapon
So, according to the policeman (in his professional opinion) it was the girl, in the bedroom with the cricket bat. I never realsied you could stab someone with a cricketbat, and hope to see someone admitted to A&E on Casualty with the exact symptons in a few weeks time, just so we can see how it's done. (I predict that the bat snaps and the bloke falls on it, like the chap with the squash raquet through his neck in that episode of Casualty about 14 years ago.) Sorry, digressing a bit there.
As you can see, so far, so not grabbed.
This is srs!Jack
And his srs face. He knows that there's something amiss. Tosh's comments have also made him wonder if his quiet tech!girl is capable of murder.
Time heals all wounds
A lot must have happened whilst Jack was gone to get these two so genuinely friendly (and bu friendly I mean platonically, not the 'friendly' of series one). It's good to see them getting along, mostly. There's still some barbed comments being exchanged, although for those two, that's probably normal business.
Bonus points to Owen for namechecking Jessica Fletcher though. That's a comment that's gong to go aobve the heads of most of the audience, who's never seen an episode of Murder, She Wrote. Jessica Fletcher should be seconded to Team Torchwood. She'd get every mystery solved in about 32 minutes leaving plenty of time to the gang to have fun at the end of each episode. It would, at least, give Jack time to stand about on roofs looking broody.
Imagine having her in your face when you woke up.
Torchwood gets topical
Actually, the kidnapping, the holding without charge, the lack of legal presentation or one phone call, it's a bit reminiscent of the way some of our governments work at the moment.
Jack gets to show off his nasty side for a change, which is a bit of a shock, because we're so used to seeing him begin quite jovial and fun. But he's not. He'd have had to have been a bit of a bastard to be such a successful conman. And it's good that we get to see his nasty side, every so often, just so we don't forget.
Like what you'd done with the place
Did that massive two-way mirror used to be there?
It sent shivers up my spine
Oh Ianto, you're getting some funny lines this week. Nice critique of Jack's interrogation technique there. Although Jack's still very much "good cop" when compared to someone like Gene Hunt and even Ianto knows it.
Jack's arm crossing becomes contagious
Everyone's at it now.
When they had their makeover they really should have done something with the locations of stuff within the Hub
because strolling someone through your centre of operations (and letting them sniff stuff whilst they're at it) is never a good idea. I'm not even an alien but I'd be there making mental notes and complaining about the bad CGI of their ceiling.
Trust me, I'm a Doctor
I NEVER want Owen taking my blood (which shouldn't be a problem, considering he's a FICTIONAL character, but his bloodtaking skillz are poor.) I like his perplexed look. Burn and the writers are really going out of their way to make Owen a lot more likeable. I am suspicious.
Beth didn't like her blind date
Yay! It's Janet! She's still hanging around, being all angry and Weevilly. she should really have a pink boilersuit though, make her look a bit more feminine.
But, wait, there's some plot going on. Poor Beth doesn't want to be an alien, although when you're being compared to Janet I can fully understand why.
Ianto's with the inappropriate humour this week
Pretending to be electrocuted? Not cute at all. Where's all your angsty main!pain gone, Ianto? Did you lose it down the back of the sofa or something? Don't get, me wrong, it's great to see GDL doing more than just look a bit miserable this year, it's just a shift that's taking a bit of getting used to. To be honest, I rather like the happier Ianto.
No not the mind probe!!
Jack's bedside manner comes under the microscope. Apparently they're not very good at all according to Gwen, who has obviously heard it from Ianto. Nothing's secret in their office, nothing at all.
I'm somewhat undecided over the moral ambiguity in this scene. Because blasting electric pulses through someone's head with a cheery "This is going to hurt a lot", is skating the line a little bit close to torture, even though Beth is willing to go through the pain to find out the truth.
Even Gwen, the us of Team Torchwood is not impressed.
*looks at arm suspiciously*
The prosthetics work on this episode was really, good. It's go subtle, and yet it all lights up in a glowy LED manner. It's so very clever.
Do you like my boots?
Jack possibly skipped a few lessons of Interrogation for Beginners. Although Beth's glance does say it all.
What the Hell is the yellow stuff in that decanter?
What would want to drink that much Creme de Banane?
Never be a real girl
Poor Beth. Talk about having the rug pulled out from under her. I thought Nikki Amuka-Bird was brilliant in this episode, playing it understated and sofly spoken, but playing it with such believability.
Ahh, the Hub
I wonder if the water in the bottom there is still really stinky?
It all starts coming back to Beth
As her programming slowly starts to kick in. It was a nice little flashback, although maybe better served as a POV shot rather than third person, but that's just me.
If in doubt cryogenically freeze 'em
of course, this is Team Torchwood
And something is bound to go wrong.
And no one notices that the paramedic has a bobbly arm?
I bet this gets cut from the family-friendly version
Pram rolling into traffic, surely not suitable for an early evening slot.
Ianto/Gwen
Proving the point that even the focus of the recent shipwar can get along with each other. Ianto's a bit of a gent at heart, bless him. You just don't get men offering their arms like that nowadays, and probably haven't since the thirties. It's a lost bit of politeness.
Brrrrrr
Alien cryogenic suites - not that cold.
Bollocks
The last thing you want, when giving someone you love a hug, is to have your emergency Battle Standard programming kick in. Although if she'd had hugged him properly, he'd still be alive now.
It's very gory this week
As an asidem notice how all the sleeper agents are married? Apart from the chavvy girl everyone else is sporting wedding rings.
Gwen's got the same phone as me!
it doesn't get a signal during your average day, let alone when all the phone lines go down.
Hello? Is there anyone there? No because the phones are down!
See, all the funny lines.
Jack Harkness: never leaves the house without a roll of gaffer tape
I can't even begin to speculate as to why he carries a roll around with him. I do like his classy carphone though.
Tosh hacks into the military
Just to remind everyone watching just how l33t she is.
It's the end of the world! Let's have sex!
Neither Ianto or Tosh are enthused at the idea of spending the last few moments of their lives having a quickie with Owen, and Tosh fancies him! And he was so persuasive too.
Jack'll never get the blood out of that coat
Now, Jack's really pissed, because some alien is having a Trinny and Susannah moment over how he dresses. Everyone's a critic, eh.
I wonder if this is the start of a longer plotline, what with the revelation that they are already being invaded, but unlike your average Dalek or Cyberman it's being done with some stealth and forethought.
Tick tick, tick tick Boom!
I do like a good explosion me, and that was a doozy.
No one seems particularly bothered by the fact Jack's getting changed behind them
Some part of Jack is very upset at the thought. I'm sure.
I wonder if his skills stretch to sewing
Someone's going to need to repair Jack's coat. How else is he going to look all cool standing on the tops of buildings? (or falling off them for that matter)
I feel it should be noted that Tosh keeps her gun in her handbag
I bet that makes shopping for bags difficult.
Gwen gets herself in a sticky situation...
Again.
I really liked how this shot was framed
Later there's some talking
Gwen is distrated from being all emo by the subject of her wedding. (A subject a woman can and will go on about at great length and in great detail.) Jack, being a man, doesn't care, as long as the service isn't too long and there's a bar and some pretty bridesmaids/best men at the reception.
So he tries to get rid of her with a rubbish pirate impression
The other Captain Jack would be horrified at it's rubbishness. And make him walk the plank.
This is Jack's worried face
Because he knows that something is coming....and it's not going to be good.
In Conclusion
Not as cracktastic as last week. But on the whole it had a solid plot, good characterisation (especially Beth) for most of the characters (although the writing for Owen seems a little shaky and the inappropriate humour from Ianto seemingly very out of character for someone with "rats in his belly").
His Lordship (my non TWoo-fan benchmark) thought it was good, but not as good as last week. (But still better than the majority of last year, obvs).
8/10
Torchwood is ready....
No you're not! Not even close. You may be able to improvise saving the world with a couple of toilet rolls and some sticky-backed plastic, but when the worst comes to the worst the Doctor's still going to come along and save you. Bless. But you get points for trying.
It's a horrible position to be in
I really can't imagine anything worse. Burglars in your house, your other half knocked out and only a bedside lamp as a weapon.
Luckily here come Team Torchwood to the rescue
Unfortunately they're a bit late and now one burglar is dead and the other is doubling as a bonnet ornament on a police car. Maybe it'll catch on, it's a bit more noticeable than the flashing blue lights and the siren.
The Moider Weapon
So, according to the policeman (in his professional opinion) it was the girl, in the bedroom with the cricket bat. I never realsied you could stab someone with a cricketbat, and hope to see someone admitted to A&E on Casualty with the exact symptons in a few weeks time, just so we can see how it's done. (I predict that the bat snaps and the bloke falls on it, like the chap with the squash raquet through his neck in that episode of Casualty about 14 years ago.) Sorry, digressing a bit there.
As you can see, so far, so not grabbed.
This is srs!Jack
And his srs face. He knows that there's something amiss. Tosh's comments have also made him wonder if his quiet tech!girl is capable of murder.
Time heals all wounds
A lot must have happened whilst Jack was gone to get these two so genuinely friendly (and bu friendly I mean platonically, not the 'friendly' of series one). It's good to see them getting along, mostly. There's still some barbed comments being exchanged, although for those two, that's probably normal business.
Bonus points to Owen for namechecking Jessica Fletcher though. That's a comment that's gong to go aobve the heads of most of the audience, who's never seen an episode of Murder, She Wrote. Jessica Fletcher should be seconded to Team Torchwood. She'd get every mystery solved in about 32 minutes leaving plenty of time to the gang to have fun at the end of each episode. It would, at least, give Jack time to stand about on roofs looking broody.
Imagine having her in your face when you woke up.
Torchwood gets topical
Actually, the kidnapping, the holding without charge, the lack of legal presentation or one phone call, it's a bit reminiscent of the way some of our governments work at the moment.
Jack gets to show off his nasty side for a change, which is a bit of a shock, because we're so used to seeing him begin quite jovial and fun. But he's not. He'd have had to have been a bit of a bastard to be such a successful conman. And it's good that we get to see his nasty side, every so often, just so we don't forget.
Like what you'd done with the place
Did that massive two-way mirror used to be there?
It sent shivers up my spine
Oh Ianto, you're getting some funny lines this week. Nice critique of Jack's interrogation technique there. Although Jack's still very much "good cop" when compared to someone like Gene Hunt and even Ianto knows it.
Jack's arm crossing becomes contagious
Everyone's at it now.
When they had their makeover they really should have done something with the locations of stuff within the Hub
because strolling someone through your centre of operations (and letting them sniff stuff whilst they're at it) is never a good idea. I'm not even an alien but I'd be there making mental notes and complaining about the bad CGI of their ceiling.
Trust me, I'm a Doctor
I NEVER want Owen taking my blood (which shouldn't be a problem, considering he's a FICTIONAL character, but his bloodtaking skillz are poor.) I like his perplexed look. Burn and the writers are really going out of their way to make Owen a lot more likeable. I am suspicious.
Beth didn't like her blind date
Yay! It's Janet! She's still hanging around, being all angry and Weevilly. she should really have a pink boilersuit though, make her look a bit more feminine.
But, wait, there's some plot going on. Poor Beth doesn't want to be an alien, although when you're being compared to Janet I can fully understand why.
Ianto's with the inappropriate humour this week
Pretending to be electrocuted? Not cute at all. Where's all your angsty main!pain gone, Ianto? Did you lose it down the back of the sofa or something? Don't get, me wrong, it's great to see GDL doing more than just look a bit miserable this year, it's just a shift that's taking a bit of getting used to. To be honest, I rather like the happier Ianto.
No not the mind probe!!
Jack's bedside manner comes under the microscope. Apparently they're not very good at all according to Gwen, who has obviously heard it from Ianto. Nothing's secret in their office, nothing at all.
I'm somewhat undecided over the moral ambiguity in this scene. Because blasting electric pulses through someone's head with a cheery "This is going to hurt a lot", is skating the line a little bit close to torture, even though Beth is willing to go through the pain to find out the truth.
Even Gwen, the us of Team Torchwood is not impressed.
*looks at arm suspiciously*
The prosthetics work on this episode was really, good. It's go subtle, and yet it all lights up in a glowy LED manner. It's so very clever.
Do you like my boots?
Jack possibly skipped a few lessons of Interrogation for Beginners. Although Beth's glance does say it all.
What the Hell is the yellow stuff in that decanter?
What would want to drink that much Creme de Banane?
Never be a real girl
Poor Beth. Talk about having the rug pulled out from under her. I thought Nikki Amuka-Bird was brilliant in this episode, playing it understated and sofly spoken, but playing it with such believability.
Ahh, the Hub
I wonder if the water in the bottom there is still really stinky?
It all starts coming back to Beth
As her programming slowly starts to kick in. It was a nice little flashback, although maybe better served as a POV shot rather than third person, but that's just me.
If in doubt cryogenically freeze 'em
of course, this is Team Torchwood
And something is bound to go wrong.
And no one notices that the paramedic has a bobbly arm?
I bet this gets cut from the family-friendly version
Pram rolling into traffic, surely not suitable for an early evening slot.
Ianto/Gwen
Proving the point that even the focus of the recent shipwar can get along with each other. Ianto's a bit of a gent at heart, bless him. You just don't get men offering their arms like that nowadays, and probably haven't since the thirties. It's a lost bit of politeness.
Brrrrrr
Alien cryogenic suites - not that cold.
Bollocks
The last thing you want, when giving someone you love a hug, is to have your emergency Battle Standard programming kick in. Although if she'd had hugged him properly, he'd still be alive now.
It's very gory this week
As an asidem notice how all the sleeper agents are married? Apart from the chavvy girl everyone else is sporting wedding rings.
Gwen's got the same phone as me!
it doesn't get a signal during your average day, let alone when all the phone lines go down.
Hello? Is there anyone there? No because the phones are down!
See, all the funny lines.
Jack Harkness: never leaves the house without a roll of gaffer tape
I can't even begin to speculate as to why he carries a roll around with him. I do like his classy carphone though.
Tosh hacks into the military
Just to remind everyone watching just how l33t she is.
It's the end of the world! Let's have sex!
Neither Ianto or Tosh are enthused at the idea of spending the last few moments of their lives having a quickie with Owen, and Tosh fancies him! And he was so persuasive too.
Jack'll never get the blood out of that coat
Now, Jack's really pissed, because some alien is having a Trinny and Susannah moment over how he dresses. Everyone's a critic, eh.
I wonder if this is the start of a longer plotline, what with the revelation that they are already being invaded, but unlike your average Dalek or Cyberman it's being done with some stealth and forethought.
Tick tick, tick tick Boom!
I do like a good explosion me, and that was a doozy.
No one seems particularly bothered by the fact Jack's getting changed behind them
Some part of Jack is very upset at the thought. I'm sure.
I wonder if his skills stretch to sewing
Someone's going to need to repair Jack's coat. How else is he going to look all cool standing on the tops of buildings? (or falling off them for that matter)
I feel it should be noted that Tosh keeps her gun in her handbag
I bet that makes shopping for bags difficult.
Gwen gets herself in a sticky situation...
Again.
I really liked how this shot was framed
Later there's some talking
Gwen is distrated from being all emo by the subject of her wedding. (A subject a woman can and will go on about at great length and in great detail.) Jack, being a man, doesn't care, as long as the service isn't too long and there's a bar and some pretty bridesmaids/best men at the reception.
So he tries to get rid of her with a rubbish pirate impression
The other Captain Jack would be horrified at it's rubbishness. And make him walk the plank.
This is Jack's worried face
Because he knows that something is coming....and it's not going to be good.
In Conclusion
Not as cracktastic as last week. But on the whole it had a solid plot, good characterisation (especially Beth) for most of the characters (although the writing for Owen seems a little shaky and the inappropriate humour from Ianto seemingly very out of character for someone with "rats in his belly").
His Lordship (my non TWoo-fan benchmark) thought it was good, but not as good as last week. (But still better than the majority of last year, obvs).
8/10
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Date: Sunday, January 27th, 2008 11:25 pm (UTC)I actually remember that!! It freaked me out for weeks.
The baby bit did get cut from the kiddies pre-watershed showing. Then again, so did most of the last fifteen minutes. :)
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Date: Monday, January 28th, 2008 08:18 am (UTC)I loved Ianto's snark as well. Finally, he is getting a character.
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