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[mrv3000]

There's a mention of DW S4 casting in here.

REALLY liked this episode a whole lot. They could have a lot more of that, thanks. (Although then they'd basically become the show Lost.) In my mind, they could have done this episode looooong ago, but I'm still happy we're getting it at all.

Jack

LOADS of talk about the Doctor! How happy am I?? "First I'm going to kiss him, then I'm going to kill him." And this didn't actually happen because...? (Even though I don't really ship those two, I still wanted to see Jack give the Doctor a big old snog. Ten gets kissed/kisses everyone (apparently) and why can't Jack get in on that too??)

And Torchwood has always been psychotic. Yeesh.

So if I've got this right, Jack was always a freelancer for Torchwood Three, right up until 2000 when the then-leader pulled a murder/suicide. You know, this actually fits his character. While I had a feeling that Jack had been working for Torchwood for a long time, something didn't seem quite right about the thought of him leading Torchwood for a long time.

Tosh

Poor Tosh. I don't think she's ever talked about her mother since then, has she? I wonder if she really was okay like Jack said. Also, Tosh is a hell of a lot smarter than I ever gathered from stuff before. She seemed the standard computer hacker, but if she's mentally redesigning flawed MoD designs so that they actually work... I want to see more super-genius Tosh.

Ianto

Myfanwy!! YAY!! And obviously she's a Jack/Ianto shipper since she dropped Jack right on top of Ianto. :D

While watching Ianto's piece, I kept thinking Lisa Lisa Lisa Lisa. His motivation here is Lisa. And you finally saw that in the end when he started tearing up when walking away from Jack. Ianto was completely fucked up at that point in his life, but he hid it disturbingly well. That's probably why I'll always be the slightest bit suspicious of Ianto yet - that he might not have let the whole Lisa thing go. Maybe he has, but... *eyes Ianto*

But HEH. Loved the coffee (or was it tea?) bit with Jack. :D

Owen

I did NOT see that backstory coming for Owen. Normal guy, wanting to get married... This wasn't sexual-prowl Owen at ALL. But then she (I can't remember her name) had Death By Alien, and that was that. Hello, destructive-behavior Owen.

A few random thoughts:

• All these stories tied together in that they were how each person got involved with Torchwood. We didn't need a Gwen flashback since we know about her. I'm wondering if some of this will come into play in the next episode. I was a bit surprised that this wasn't really a two-parter. You got a wee bit of setup for the next episode, but that was it. Not that they have to have a two-parter to finish out the series.
  
  
• When Jack took over Torchwood, I'm really wondering what he was thinking in choosing the people he did. He's seen first-hand of Torchwood and madness, and to take people who were not healthy emotionally at the time... (To be fair though, he didn't really know with Ianto.) That's toying a bit with disaster. But maybe he thought they couldn't get any worse? I bet dollars to donuts he plucked up Suzie at a point in her life when she wasn't exactly secret-agent material too. Maybe Jack was changing his ways a bit with Gwen? Maybe someone with a bit more stability could weather it better.
  
  
• So in the current Torchwood timeline (which is seriously making me dizzy), it's almost two years after Canary Wharf. But I'm betting that'll fit very nicely with Jack turning up on Doctor Who again, which should be almost two years since Doomsday.
  
  
• Speaking of which, I'm dying to know how they're going to end Torchwood this year. We know Jack's going to be in the last episodes of Doctor Who again, so you'd almost think that we'd be hearing the TARDIS again. Or maybe a call from Martha saying she needs Jack's help. Whatever it is, I'll probably squee at it. :D
  
  
• Grey - there are a few ways this could go. 1) It's not really Grey, but Spike's playing him. 2) Grey will get killed by the end. 3) Grey will become S3's new team member. 4) Grey will be lost again. 5) Grey will give a nice brotherly hug, and then zip back to the 51st century. Honestly...I don't really care much which it is. I'm not overly invested in the brother storyline. But damn! Spike's going all boiled bunny on Jack!
  
  
• 51st century pheromones? Jack's been cheating!! :D