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Nate Elune ([personal profile] fan_elune) wrote2006-11-06 09:23 pm

"And just for a second there I felt so alive."

Was I the only one to think OMGBUSHWACKED at the beginning of the episode? That was so Firefly come back to us. ...with Ianto in the role of River? Or something.

Anyway. Fairly good episode, I found. I like seeing that ruthless side of Jack. Safety first, and his people first. This sort of moral ambiguity is how I like my (big damn) heroes best.

SEE HOW I'M STILL NOT DOING NANO. I have willpower. Because each episode just makes me want to a little bit more.

I know I should get annoyed by the kiss of life thing. Because it's a bit of an easy way out, or at least it's in danger of becoming that. But I don't know, I'm still not. Not simply because that was Ianto Jack was kissing either. Although, yay! Even though this episode dismissed the asexual!Ianto theory, yay for the Ianto-centric, and yay for raising some very valid points (how outside the team Ianto is, how Jack for all his friendliness never cared enough to ask about his life, the dirty work they keep asking of him, the impact of the Cybermen war on the surviving members of TW, etc). And I now want to read Jack/Ianto, if anybody has any good recs.

I'm also surprised at myself for enjoying the Gwen/Owen kiss and consecutive dialogue. It felt true. And I still adore her boyfriend, just because he's so very random average guy.

Also, yay for the mention of Suzie (they do remember her), yay for the mutilated doctor and Gwen feeling that Owen was hard neither of which would have flown on Who, and yay for them not firing Ianto or killing him off.

I only wanted to slap Gwen a couple times in the whole episode, which bodes well.

All in all, yeah, I liked this episode. However, I'm starting to wonder if I'm not going to keep waiting for the show to hit a really awesome note until the end of the season. Oh well. At least I'll wait with Jack, who is very good company.

In other news, no miracle. Kaylee's still dead. Although I think it might just be the screen, in which case I should at least be able to retrieve the stuff that's on her.

I'm not going to get depressed over it.

[livejournal.com profile] kowaio? Happy birthday again! Let me know what you guys think of the movie.

[identity profile] grimma.livejournal.com 2006-11-07 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Tout pareil avec Firefly!

Par contre, le reste de l'épisode m'a laissée sur ma fin. Je trouve que les jalons sont posés un peu trop grossièrement... Alors peut-être qu'ils n'ont pas le temps ni les moyens d'avancer plus "finement", mais grrrr, j'attends aussi ZE episode.

[identity profile] fan-elune.livejournal.com 2006-11-07 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
C'est ça le truc avec Torchwood, en fait. C'est super frustrant parce que tu sens tout le potentiel frémir sous la surface, et tu les vois tomber dans les trucs bateaux. C'est trop con.

Mais bon, pour l'instant je préfère à la S2 de Who, donc bon.

[identity profile] grimma.livejournal.com 2006-11-12 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
C'est super frustrant parce que tu sens tout le potentiel frémir sous la surface, et tu les vois tomber dans les trucs bateaux

Exactement.

J'ai revu l'épisode 4 et je me suis rendue compte que ce qui ne m'avait vraiment pas plus c'était la performance de l'acteur qui joue Ianto. Du coup ça m'a bloquée sur le reste. J'attends; au pire y'a du Captain Jack à zieuter et y'a plus qu'à attendre qu'il s'en tape un ou une. Au pire.