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)

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I totally forgot about that. I think I was too happy with Owen to care about plot holes.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[jesidres.livejournal.com]

Your icon. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[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.

[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.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

And whoops. That was supposed to be a reply to the main entry. haha. Whatevs.

[measi.livejournal.com]

That doesn't phase me - I enjoyed TIP/TSP tremendously.

Possession can be done very, very well and be a scary storytelling medium. I think TIP/TSP handled it well. Here? Not so much.

[fauxkaren.livejournal.com]

haha. Yeah. TIP/TSP are actually my favorite episodes of New Who. I can't count how many times I've watched them. I just thought it was funny that there were possession scenes in both. And that TIP/TSP dealt with the abstract of Satan and here he dealt with the abstract of Death. Interesting...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

That he wasn't forever dead? I kinda had a feeling he wouldn't be. :D

[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

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I am still worried. HE MIGHT DIE IN THE NEXT EPISODE. I am scarred when it comes to the Who franchise, no one is allowed to die or leave without my permission.

[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...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Death is a PUSS.