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

[fan_elune]

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.

kowaio? Happy birthday again! Let me know what you guys think of the movie.

Comments

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

lol, moi personellement je me suis retrouvée à me dire que c'était très approprié au personnage de Jack, ce genre de baisers pour qu'il communique ce genre d'essence de vie ou peu importe le nom qu'on lui donne. Et puis j'ai poussé la réflexion un peu plus loin en me disant que la seule façon que ce soit encore plus approprié ce serait qu'il faille qu'il couche avec pour la transmettre, auquel cas on se retrouverait avec des cas de semi nécrophilie et c'est là que j'ai décidé d'arrêter de penser. Oups? :p

[littlegothsin.livejournal.com]

Oh, c'est justement parce que ça colle si bien au personnage que ça me fait rire (pas que je m'en plaigne, d'ailleur)
Ben sans aller jusqu'à la semi necrophilie (il ressucite pas les morts quand même si ?) ça serait au moins du semi viol ("oui, Ianto, j'ai abusé de toi pendant que tu étais insconcient, mais c'était pour te reveiller! Non non, attend que je trouve une meilleur formulation").

[fan-elune.livejournal.com]

Oui, pas vraiment de la nécrophilie, d'où le "semi". Parce que s'ils sont inconscients, ils pourraient aussi bien être morts. A moins qu'il n'y ait un terme genre somnambulophilie? Heh. Bref!
"Oui, Ianto, j'ai abusé de toi pendant que tu étais inconscient, mais c'était pour te réveiller... et tu as aimé ça." *insert Ianto spluttering* "La preuve? Vérifie ton pantalon." *taps twice on his cheek, and moves away to put his clothes back on* "Right. The world to save."