Torchwood: The Bobby Flay Chronicles

[mrv3000]

Let's try this again. I've had sleep and am drinking coffee.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Okayokayokay.

• They turned Owen into a zombie. MWAH. Apparently one undead man on the team wasn't enough - now they've got two. Except Owen's actually very fragile now. Jack was right - if he gets hurt, he's gonna be in trouble since bones won't mend. I guess whatever that residual glove thing was is keeping him from completely decomposing.
  
  Now that they've done this, I have to wonder WHY they've done it with this character. I guess like the title from last week, they've reset his character. Heh. Talk about retooling. But since sex is now out, we no longer have to be subjected to his ass! WOO! \o/ Um...can we turn Rhys into a zombie too?
  
  
  
• I was a bit disappointed with Martha this week - not that she did anything bad. But after seeing her last week with the whole fast-forward awesome doctor thing (which realistically should have taken a few years from LotTL, but was compressed to one...even though I have no idea how it's even one year since LotTL), I was convinced that she'd have a pivotal role while Owen was out of commission - something that required those awesome doctor skills. But that didn't materialize. Actually, other than starting an autopsy at the beginning, there was really no time where she had to be in this episode. If you're going to go the the trouble of having a very special guest character, don't waste her! HMPH.
  
  
  
• Did anyone understand what happened when Jack blacked out and woke up in the Torchmobile at the hospital?
  
  Director: [reads script] WHAT? Pink bunnies burst out of Jack's chest who beat off Death, and then they rush Martha to the hospital??
  
  Writer: Great, isn't it?
  
  Director: ... FADE TO BLACK! And...Jack will wake up at the hospital and have no idea how he got there!
  
  Writer: WHAT? YOU CAN'T CUT THAT! THE BUNNIES ARE SYMBOLIC!!
  
  Director: Why did I give up doing Jane Austin adaptations again?
  
  
  
• Boy Death moves slowly, doesn't it? I'm thinking it could have killed dozens easily by the time they evacuated the hospital. It's not like it had to be stealthy for any reason. And why didn't it just kill everyone at Torchwood first??
  
  Okay, it's Torchwood. Ignore the plot holes and look at the pretty.
  
  ...
  
  Right. These people aren't pretty enough to distract from the plot holes. Jack can only go so far. Damn, they really needed a basket of kittens.
  
  
  
• To sum up: WHAT?

Comments

[audrich.livejournal.com]

I thought you were talking about the previous ep. I just spoiled myself - I'm an eejit!!

*HEADDESK*

*reads again, because, what can it hurt*

BUNNIES???
LOLOLOL!!!
TORCHWOOD CRACK!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I thought you were talking about the previous ep. I just spoiled myself - I'm an eejit!!

ACK!

BUNNIES???
LOLOLOL!!!
TORCHWOOD CRACK!

Bunnies would have made about as much sense there.

[zinke.livejournal.com]

Did anyone understand what happened when Jack blacked out and woke up in the Torchmobile at the hospital?

I have no freakin' idea. Except... maybe Death hitched a ride in Jack, and once Death had left for green pastures (i.e. the hospital) Jack came back to life?

(Hey, if the TW writers are allowed to be cracktastic and make things up, so am I)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That's probably as good an explanation as any! :D

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Director: [reads script] WHAT? Pink bunnies burst out of Jack's chest who beat off Death, and then they rush Martha to the hospital??

Writer: Great, isn't it?

Director: ... FADE TO BLACK! And...Jack will wake up at the hospital and have no idea how he got there!

Writer: WHAT? YOU CAN'T CUT THAT! THE BUNNIES ARE SYMBOLIC!!

Director: Why did I give up doing Jane Austin adaptations again?
THAT HAPPENED.

The writer wants to be like RTD when he grows up.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

THAT HAPPENED.

MWAH.

The writer wants to be like RTD when he grows up.

HEH. It's actually the same guy who wrote The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit. Something got lost in translation this time around, though.

[leighleighla.livejournal.com]

I couldn't stop laughing when the hand started attacking people. I just...*Breathes* I had to pause, sing the Adams' Family theme tune, and then go again...

The whole episode was made of crack, most of it made little to know sense, and yet...yet I still enjoyed it. I don't know what's wrong with me.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's Thing! They should have kept it around for bringing tea and stuff!

And I'd really like to know what it is about Torchwood that makes us all keep watching. :D

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

I am so glad Owen didn't die or turn into a Weevil. My biggest impression of Martha in this episode was screaming and everyone else having to save her from the glove. I was glad the omgz she is the bestest was absent though. I like her better on TW then on DW, but she doesn't really add that much to me.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I am so glad Owen didn't die or turn into a Weevil.

I was expecting Weevil!Owen too. Just goes to show that you *really* can't believe "spoilers" for anything.

My biggest impression of Martha in this episode was screaming and everyone else having to save her from the glove. I was glad the omgz she is the bestest was absent though. I like her better on TW then on DW, but she doesn't really add that much to me.

Well, last week she did for me, but this week...

[bittybye2000.livejournal.com]

Just finished watching it. I don't think I was supposed to laugh so much during the Owen/Death smackdown. It was just so funny.

I'd really like to know what the writers are on so I can stay far, far away from it.

[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

......um, whatever was left over from RTD's supply when he'd finished LOTTL?

The BBC really should pay him better expenses, this crack is doing his head no good at all.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Death is a PUSS.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Dude. I just... The whole thing was high grade crack, but the bit where Jack wakes up in the van? BWAHAHAHAHAHA THEY AREN'T EVEN TRYING TO BE SERIOUS ANY MORE! I LOVE IT! Hee!

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

Your icon. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Serious? What's this seriousness of which you speak?

[fakymcfakerson.livejournal.com]

I think that Death was distracted by Jack- kept killing him and killing him a la Abbaddon (or whatever that big season finale's name was), so the Torch-team... well, did something ridiculously stupid and just brought them along to the hospital when they took Martha in.

"Hm, well, we have Death, and he's pretty well occupied at the moment... LET'S TAKE HIM TO A FEEDING GROUND!"

And I don't know why it was such a big deal that they're at a hospital at all, because it seems that Death is pretty good at killing people, and doesn't need to prey on the weak. Maybe a confidence-booster after Jack? More likely, though, it's a plot device for next week.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I think that Death was distracted by Jack- kept killing him and killing him

Or maybe Jack hit on Death. *wiggles eyebrows*

"Hm, well, we have Death, and he's pretty well occupied at the moment... LET'S TAKE HIM TO A FEEDING GROUND!"

So the idea was that Death hitched a ride in Jack? Hmm. Okay. That is probably what they were trying to do there.

And I don't know why it was such a big deal that they're at a hospital at all, because it seems that Death is pretty good at killing people, and doesn't need to prey on the weak. Maybe a confidence-booster after Jack? More likely, though, it's a plot device for next week.

Yeah, probably. :D

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

I can't deal with these Torchwood episodes in one go without a group to snark with, and suddenly I am very glad I put off watching this episode until after my post graduate class, because I don't think I would be able to comprehend anything with a melted brain.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I always think Torchwood watching would be best in a group setting. :D

[measi.livejournal.com]

Erich and I were trying to figure out what was up with that weird Jack cut, too.

I'd say this was probably the lowpoint of the eps so far.

As for Martha... meh. *shrug* I'm curious as to why so many (not you... but others) were expecting her to come in and be the save-the-day type because she was a guest star. That would smack of huge Mary Sue-ism. Martha is fit into Torchwood, not the other way around.

And with a cast of five leads already - I'm not surprised her roll is smaller. It can't be as large as it was in Who.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

Oh dude. Apparently the guy who wrote this episode also wrote TIP/SP. I guess he likes to write possession scenes.

[shadowkitten87.livejournal.com]

All I have to say is...



whut.

[tripocket.livejournal.com]

And here Papa Jack begins to wonder if perhaps the Doctor was right when he said Jack was wrong.

[javabreeze.livejournal.com]

I thought the episode was FABULOUS. I couldn't stop laughing and Martha worked for me in this episode compared to last week. Funny how I adore the crack on TW and despise it on DW.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I thought it was fabulously...cracky. Probably the most WTFery I've seen on TW or DW yet! I swear it makes LotTL look sane! :D

[ashism.livejournal.com]

One thing I will say - how did Tosh not slap the living daylights out of Owen at the end after kissing her just to steal her thingy? Y'know, the guilt she would have had if he had actually become deaded by Death (or, more deaded?) just because she was naive enough to think he wanted to kiss her rather than steal her thingy.

Okay, slightly wordy reply, but really that was my only issue, that she didn't slap the shit out of him afterwards.

TW is crack and I wouldn't expect anything less! OH and the HOCKEY STICK! Awesomeness. Jack's face was a picture. And then the whole farting incident in the cell, bloody hilarious (though disgusting).

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

One thing I will say - how did Tosh not slap the living daylights out of Owen at the end after kissing her just to steal her thingy?

Yeah, no kidding. Even in death he's a jerk. :D Tosh deserves better.

TW is crack and I wouldn't expect anything less! OH and the HOCKEY STICK!

I totally cracked up at the hockey stick! :D But at least Ianto went to get *something* to battle the claw instead of standing around staring at it! :D

And then the whole farting incident in the cell, bloody hilarious (though disgusting).

The best was Jack's reaction to that.

[selenityshiroi.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the only reason Martha is on TW is to improve her fanbase after they trod her character into the ground with that unrequainted love storyarc.

TPTB realise that people didn't like Martha when she was pining over the Doctor so they're giving her a chance to show how awesome she can be when she's being herself (and not a lovesick teenager).

I didn't like her at all during DW S3 but I loved her during Reset. I also thought she was okay (if not outstanding) during last night's episode. So the character reset has worked for me.

(also, if they're having Martha and Rose meet, they obviously need a Martha who doesn't fancy the Doctor and is not bitter over his continued attachment to Rose-so another reason to sort out Martha's character!)

So, other than Martha, last night's episode was a bit WTF??? I'm still processing it, I think!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I definitely am liking Martha AWAY from that unrequited love character-arc. And please please please can we not have any kind of cattiness from *anyone* if Rose and Martha ever meet?

And this episode needs a bit of processing. :D

[sherbertglasses.livejournal.com]

Did anyone understand what happened when Jack blacked out and woke up in the Torchmobile at the hospital?
He died when death touched him. They put his body in the van when they took Martha, cuz the know they'd need him. He resurrected in the van by the time they got there.

[sherbertglasses.livejournal.com]

know

*knew

[velvet4269.livejournal.com]

I'm watching it now ... and all I'm going to say is that Gwen gets points for wearing red chucks in this episode (see scene towards the beginning where she's sitting on a platform and calls Rhys). ;)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

She does? Ooh, that totally wins!