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Combat
This was Fight Club. I've not even seen Fight Club, but I know this was it. The best part was the little fake video that Owen made. It amuses me to think of them out there filming it, Ianto with his little stopwatch, Jack hitting on the extras...
Through this episode I started wondering again about this group of people. Can't they hire an on-staff shrink? These people's mental health is crap.
Captain Jack Harkness
Another Torchwood episode I really liked! While watching the earlier episodes, I realized what I'd been missing - a Jack-centric episode. You really can only take the "man of mystery" thing so far with your audience. There's a difference between a character being mysterious with other characters (see the Doctor) and a character being mysterious with the audience. If you never let the audience see the character, it becomes like UST that goes for 10 seasons, never to be resolved.
Anyway, I really dug this episode because all the characters got in on the action and it's the most non-emo life we've seen from Ianto yet!
The only thing that threw me out of the episode was the Jack/Jack dancing and kiss at the end. Don't get me wrong, I really loved the whole story about this soldier who's being told to live in the now and who wants to be with Jack instead of pretending with this woman. And also on the other side Jack who feels guilty and helpless about him because he knows his fate. It was a lovely story. But the soldier being the one to go to Jack and pull him on the dance floor - today I wouldn't think anything of it. In front of his men in the 1940s? Like I said, it threw me right out of the story. Maybe I've got wrong perceptions about history, but I can't see anyone being that open about it back then. Pulling Jack into a corner? Yes. Dancing in front of everyone? No.
(Also, hello "Bad Wolf" on the wall!)
End of Days
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Son of Beast stomping around Godzilla-style through Cardiff!!! Awesome.
I wonder if the idea was to relate it to the entity in DW's "The Satan Pit," by calling it the Son of Beast. Looked slightly similar, and also was chained up beneath something that was its prison.
Anyway, I got the strong notion that this was Jack's "being kept alive for a reason" purpose from the whole Bad Wolf thing. The only way this creature could have been destroyed was if Jack had been this fixed point in time - really, there wasn't any other way to kill it. Yeah, I'm really thinking more along the lines of it being intentional by Rose. Otherwise there's always coincidence. Big, whopping coincidence.
After it was over, I couldn't help but to get out Utopia from DW and watch a few scenes from there. Jack is just SO different in Torchwood and in DW. He's got a spark when he's around the Doctor. Okay, I'm biased, but on DW he looks like he belongs. In Torchwood, he's an outsider.
Curse you, Torchwood! Jack should have been the companion in S4. HMPH.
Anyway, overall I'd say that people were right - the series got sooo much better as it went along. Also, I've more than had my fill of seeing Rhys' ass, thanks.
This was Fight Club. I've not even seen Fight Club, but I know this was it. The best part was the little fake video that Owen made. It amuses me to think of them out there filming it, Ianto with his little stopwatch, Jack hitting on the extras...
Through this episode I started wondering again about this group of people. Can't they hire an on-staff shrink? These people's mental health is crap.
Captain Jack Harkness
Another Torchwood episode I really liked! While watching the earlier episodes, I realized what I'd been missing - a Jack-centric episode. You really can only take the "man of mystery" thing so far with your audience. There's a difference between a character being mysterious with other characters (see the Doctor) and a character being mysterious with the audience. If you never let the audience see the character, it becomes like UST that goes for 10 seasons, never to be resolved.
Anyway, I really dug this episode because all the characters got in on the action and it's the most non-emo life we've seen from Ianto yet!
The only thing that threw me out of the episode was the Jack/Jack dancing and kiss at the end. Don't get me wrong, I really loved the whole story about this soldier who's being told to live in the now and who wants to be with Jack instead of pretending with this woman. And also on the other side Jack who feels guilty and helpless about him because he knows his fate. It was a lovely story. But the soldier being the one to go to Jack and pull him on the dance floor - today I wouldn't think anything of it. In front of his men in the 1940s? Like I said, it threw me right out of the story. Maybe I've got wrong perceptions about history, but I can't see anyone being that open about it back then. Pulling Jack into a corner? Yes. Dancing in front of everyone? No.
(Also, hello "Bad Wolf" on the wall!)
End of Days
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Son of Beast stomping around Godzilla-style through Cardiff!!! Awesome.
I wonder if the idea was to relate it to the entity in DW's "The Satan Pit," by calling it the Son of Beast. Looked slightly similar, and also was chained up beneath something that was its prison.
Anyway, I got the strong notion that this was Jack's "being kept alive for a reason" purpose from the whole Bad Wolf thing. The only way this creature could have been destroyed was if Jack had been this fixed point in time - really, there wasn't any other way to kill it. Yeah, I'm really thinking more along the lines of it being intentional by Rose. Otherwise there's always coincidence. Big, whopping coincidence.
After it was over, I couldn't help but to get out Utopia from DW and watch a few scenes from there. Jack is just SO different in Torchwood and in DW. He's got a spark when he's around the Doctor. Okay, I'm biased, but on DW he looks like he belongs. In Torchwood, he's an outsider.
Curse you, Torchwood! Jack should have been the companion in S4. HMPH.
Anyway, overall I'd say that people were right - the series got sooo much better as it went along. Also, I've more than had my fill of seeing Rhys' ass, thanks.