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Torchwood
Oooooh, this was another episode I really liked. It's S2's "They Keep Killing Suzie" for me. Joseph Lidster has now completely redeemed himself from writing Martha's Myspace blog. Well...redeemed himself as long as I don't actually look at the blog.
Torchwood is cheesy, cracktastic, and completely insane, but it does do some really provocative episodes from time to time. Watching Owen descend into a sort of madness was very well done when it could have been completely over the top. And then the twist of "hope" at the end when everything leading up to it (in this and past episodes) had been negative negative negative...I liked it. Yeah, the world can be crap at times, but there are those things - sometimes even small things - that keep us going. Otherwise we'd all be jumping off buildings.
This was obviously an Owen-centric episode, but I really liked the handling of all the other characters in this episode. Even Martha had something to do this week.
It wasn't completely perfect though:
Torchwood is cheesy, cracktastic, and completely insane, but it does do some really provocative episodes from time to time. Watching Owen descend into a sort of madness was very well done when it could have been completely over the top. And then the twist of "hope" at the end when everything leading up to it (in this and past episodes) had been negative negative negative...I liked it. Yeah, the world can be crap at times, but there are those things - sometimes even small things - that keep us going. Otherwise we'd all be jumping off buildings.
This was obviously an Owen-centric episode, but I really liked the handling of all the other characters in this episode. Even Martha had something to do this week.
It wasn't completely perfect though:
- Owen: I [gasp] can't give CPR [sobs] because I can't breathe!! [gulps for air in an emo manner]
Me: Ahem.
Right, in spite of the fact that he was breathing audibly when he said that, don't you need air to speak? I could be wrong. - I'm really not sure if I like Owen/Tosh. I think they did a great job of laying out just how fucked up the relationship is, down to Tosh now thinking he's "safe" and therefore approachable. But it still kinda weirds me out. Maybe because it is so damaged, and I'm generally not one that's attracted to damaged relationships on shows. But everyone's relationship on this show is pretty fucked up, so why not them? On the surface Gwen/Rhys is healthy, but... And Jack/Ianto is a bit insane when you remember Lisa.
- Jack seemed incredibly weirded out when Martha kissed him. I mean, this was beyond surprised. Not exactly sure why, and don't think I've ever seen him that uncomfortable when kissing someone before. Weird. O_O