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I've gotta leave in a few minutes for a meeting up in Orange County. *POINTS AT THE TIME AND LETS LOOSE A STRING OF EXPLETIVES*
DON'T CRY, EMO!IANTO!!
Okay, the good thing was that we got some Jack backstory! Hooray! I will always take more of that, thanks! In fact, since they had everyone dressed up to take the old-time movies anyway, why not show us a flashback with Jack? That'd have been fantastic.
The bad thing was that I have no earthly idea why we got weepy Ianto in this episode. See, for character depth to work, I need some sort of motivation behind it. Was he...gassy? PMS-y? Forgot he left the iron on in his flat and knew it'd be burned down by now? Having memories of his father that really involved a traveling circus that he simply forgot to mention? His hormones kicked into overdrive on seeing Jack holding a child? WHAT?? I simply did not understand why suddenly this case had a profound impact on him. At all. I was doing the hands of joy on getting the "my dad used to take me to the cinema as a kid" thing at the beginning, because holy crap - something about Ianto's character that doesn't involve Torchwood! \o/ And then...then I have no idea what happened. I *want* Ianto episodes because I need to understand him yet. Seriously. But stuff like this...
Oooh, have you ever seen Monty Python's Confuse-A-Cat Ltd. sketch? Torchwood = Confuse-A-Cat Ltd.
As far as the actual plot went... There are many creepy stories about carnivals out there. This wasn't one of them.
DON'T CRY, EMO!IANTO!!
Okay, the good thing was that we got some Jack backstory! Hooray! I will always take more of that, thanks! In fact, since they had everyone dressed up to take the old-time movies anyway, why not show us a flashback with Jack? That'd have been fantastic.
The bad thing was that I have no earthly idea why we got weepy Ianto in this episode. See, for character depth to work, I need some sort of motivation behind it. Was he...gassy? PMS-y? Forgot he left the iron on in his flat and knew it'd be burned down by now? Having memories of his father that really involved a traveling circus that he simply forgot to mention? His hormones kicked into overdrive on seeing Jack holding a child? WHAT?? I simply did not understand why suddenly this case had a profound impact on him. At all. I was doing the hands of joy on getting the "my dad used to take me to the cinema as a kid" thing at the beginning, because holy crap - something about Ianto's character that doesn't involve Torchwood! \o/ And then...then I have no idea what happened. I *want* Ianto episodes because I need to understand him yet. Seriously. But stuff like this...
Oooh, have you ever seen Monty Python's Confuse-A-Cat Ltd. sketch? Torchwood = Confuse-A-Cat Ltd.
As far as the actual plot went... There are many creepy stories about carnivals out there. This wasn't one of them.