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trinityvixenLatest Torchwood is awesome. Hi-lariously so. Jack's ramblings about his past lovers v.cute instead of in-your-face-look-this-guy-is-a-slut obvious. Jack v.cute in general, even when being a right bastard. So many funny lines besides. I friggin love Ianto more than ever.
The actress who plays Suzie is literally incapable, far as I've seen her in stuff, of playing a strong-willed character. Playing a weasely little liar she does very well, just as she does self-pity well, so it's understandable and believable that she a) would put them all off their guard with her whining about being dead, b) would have crazy elaborate plans just to come back and kill some more, and c) that she would never get away with it because she's got all the appeal of Blon Fel-Fotch. Seriously, dude, a big, green, slimy, skin-suit wearing alien tried the exact same thing on Jack and she got more traction with his sympathies. What are you doing wrong that he shoots you fifty fucking times and is still mad at you?
I really, really wish Suzie had exposed him more to confuse the others. They weren't feeling her stupid lies, not Tosh and not Owen, even if it wasn't for the reasons they ought to have avoided her. I can't blame Owen for not wanting to be around the zombie, and Tosh can't talk for betraying, nearly getting people killed and all like she did last week, but she's right in that she made the effort to keep working, to make amends rather than trying to get off or escape. Gwen, being the Mary Sue of this episode, was of course soooooo sympathetic towards Suzie and woooooe! In danger! the whole time, and I guess that was all Suzie needed to be fully brought back, but still. I mean, the crew dislike her for being a murderer who can't die. What if she made just a simple remark about there being two of those in the room and letting them press her for details? It's not like they're not all dead curious about Jack, and it's not like they haven't seen him rise from what should have been the grave at least once (not to mention his feeding his energy without draining himself to a sex-fiend alien). Suzie's plan was overly elaborate and short on personal manipulation, thus doomed. You can't really keep the good guys down unless you get them to fight themselves.
Plus, Suzie as a contrast to Jack is fascinating. She couldn't die because she was dead already. Gwen's life animated her and eventually sustained her. I dislike the glove as the easy answer for why. If the show were really determined to be dark, and if this were, say, a second season show, I could have respected it much more for having a desecration of Gwen before her death being the means to destroying Suzie. If Gwen's life feeds the beast, kill Gwen to starve it. That would have been fucking dark. It was disturbing enough to see Suzie bleed and get shot with no ill effects, though. Still, I like the idea that Suzie is fed partly by her terror of what lay in wait for her beyond life. She'd cheated death and Death--that force behind the cessation of mortals being, and it was pissed. And she'd cheated it once. Whatever monster waits in the dark, is going to be mightily pissed at the man who not only laughs at age's attempts to do him in but who walks into bullets, electrocutions, and god-knows-what-else only to keep walking after. For a second there, Jack actually looked scared, and it's about fucking time. His whiny emo shit should stop, and he should start kicking ass again. My favorite Jack is the guy who kicked ass and took no names in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways"--he still smiled, but he blew your shit up. Fuck yessssss.
Meta over. Back to the SQUEE!
I nearly died with all the stuff with the police.
Police Woman: "Are you always this dressy for a homicide?"
Jack: "What, you'd rather me naked?" (All of fandom: "YES!!!")
Police Woman: (nods to herself) "God help me. The stories are true." (All of fandom: "AND HOW!!!")
Cheeee!!!! And then! And then!
Police Woman: "You're locked inside your own base?"
Jack: "And it's not funny."
Police Woman: (beckons others over to listen in) "And um, how am I supposed to help you?
Jack: "We need a book of poetry." (pause) "It's not funny."
Ianto being the namer of stuff killed me. 'Risen Mitten'? Love it. Love Owen deferring to him and getting 'Life Knife' for his trouble. Hooray for acknowledging that Ianto is there, people. They're so used to relying on him and Tosh as the people they want to talk to only when absolutely necessary, it breaks my heart. His figuring out the cell phone trick? Motherfucking badass. Take that, you technoretards! For a second, I thought Jack was gonna kiss him for being so ruddy brilliant. He ought to have, given how the episode ended. I mean, really, non sequitors about what you can do alone together with Jack Harkness to kill time? Talking about timing said acts? Jack saying he'll send everyone away? What else could they be getting up to? If Torchwood the show were as childish as Torchwood's crew are, the rest of the lot would come back to find Jack and Ianto trying to figure out who could, I dunno, frost the most cupcakes in a ten-minute interval. I have slightly higher hopes that Ianto will be retrieving his tie from Jack's office the morning after as he greets the others coming in for the morning.
They flirt so well :)
From the very start, even. In prep for this episode, I rewatched the pilot (the only other one Suzie was in), and Jack says what Ianto does to Gwen and then says he looks good in a suit. Ianto warns him off for that remark bordering (but not getting close enough to) sexual harassment. Ianto's comment about his not caring whether Jack was actually gay in "Day One" translated to "He's still having sex with me--what do I care if he's really straight?" Then there's their weird shit in "Cyberwoman," where Jack flipped out a lot on Ianto instead of trying to understand what would lead him to do something so risky, as he might have done back in his Who days. It was betrayal--not that Ianto had a woman on the side (Jack not being in a position to talk with his 80 yr old ex-fiance still in the picture, not to mention his being Jack), but that he would sacrifice the others including Jack for Lisa, or at least run that risk. Then there's the smoldering looks across the picnic table in "Countrycide." And you know what? Thank god for that. No, really, I am not a slash fan, and I've wanted Jack in Ianto's pants since "Cyberwoman," maybe before. Because it's not slash! It's Jack! Jack and anyone reasonably attractive = the win! Except that's not true. I don't like Gwen/Jack, though I'd take Tosh, Suzie, or Owen and Jack. But Ianto/Jack for me, thanks.
And then there's this for the ABSOLUTE WINNINGEST WIN EVER!
"I had a boyfriend who used to walk into rooms like that--a 'grand' entrance. Got kind of boring. Though, he was one of twins, so I put up with it. Twin acrobats. Man, I gotta write that book. Maybe even illustrate it."
:: massive stampede as all of fandom runs to Amazon to await its release::
The actress who plays Suzie is literally incapable, far as I've seen her in stuff, of playing a strong-willed character. Playing a weasely little liar she does very well, just as she does self-pity well, so it's understandable and believable that she a) would put them all off their guard with her whining about being dead, b) would have crazy elaborate plans just to come back and kill some more, and c) that she would never get away with it because she's got all the appeal of Blon Fel-Fotch. Seriously, dude, a big, green, slimy, skin-suit wearing alien tried the exact same thing on Jack and she got more traction with his sympathies. What are you doing wrong that he shoots you fifty fucking times and is still mad at you?
I really, really wish Suzie had exposed him more to confuse the others. They weren't feeling her stupid lies, not Tosh and not Owen, even if it wasn't for the reasons they ought to have avoided her. I can't blame Owen for not wanting to be around the zombie, and Tosh can't talk for betraying, nearly getting people killed and all like she did last week, but she's right in that she made the effort to keep working, to make amends rather than trying to get off or escape. Gwen, being the Mary Sue of this episode, was of course soooooo sympathetic towards Suzie and woooooe! In danger! the whole time, and I guess that was all Suzie needed to be fully brought back, but still. I mean, the crew dislike her for being a murderer who can't die. What if she made just a simple remark about there being two of those in the room and letting them press her for details? It's not like they're not all dead curious about Jack, and it's not like they haven't seen him rise from what should have been the grave at least once (not to mention his feeding his energy without draining himself to a sex-fiend alien). Suzie's plan was overly elaborate and short on personal manipulation, thus doomed. You can't really keep the good guys down unless you get them to fight themselves.
Plus, Suzie as a contrast to Jack is fascinating. She couldn't die because she was dead already. Gwen's life animated her and eventually sustained her. I dislike the glove as the easy answer for why. If the show were really determined to be dark, and if this were, say, a second season show, I could have respected it much more for having a desecration of Gwen before her death being the means to destroying Suzie. If Gwen's life feeds the beast, kill Gwen to starve it. That would have been fucking dark. It was disturbing enough to see Suzie bleed and get shot with no ill effects, though. Still, I like the idea that Suzie is fed partly by her terror of what lay in wait for her beyond life. She'd cheated death and Death--that force behind the cessation of mortals being, and it was pissed. And she'd cheated it once. Whatever monster waits in the dark, is going to be mightily pissed at the man who not only laughs at age's attempts to do him in but who walks into bullets, electrocutions, and god-knows-what-else only to keep walking after. For a second there, Jack actually looked scared, and it's about fucking time. His whiny emo shit should stop, and he should start kicking ass again. My favorite Jack is the guy who kicked ass and took no names in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways"--he still smiled, but he blew your shit up. Fuck yessssss.
Meta over. Back to the SQUEE!
I nearly died with all the stuff with the police.
Police Woman: "Are you always this dressy for a homicide?"
Jack: "What, you'd rather me naked?" (All of fandom: "YES!!!")
Police Woman: (nods to herself) "God help me. The stories are true." (All of fandom: "AND HOW!!!")
Cheeee!!!! And then! And then!
Police Woman: "You're locked inside your own base?"
Jack: "And it's not funny."
Police Woman: (beckons others over to listen in) "And um, how am I supposed to help you?
Jack: "We need a book of poetry." (pause) "It's not funny."
Ianto being the namer of stuff killed me. 'Risen Mitten'? Love it. Love Owen deferring to him and getting 'Life Knife' for his trouble. Hooray for acknowledging that Ianto is there, people. They're so used to relying on him and Tosh as the people they want to talk to only when absolutely necessary, it breaks my heart. His figuring out the cell phone trick? Motherfucking badass. Take that, you technoretards! For a second, I thought Jack was gonna kiss him for being so ruddy brilliant. He ought to have, given how the episode ended. I mean, really, non sequitors about what you can do alone together with Jack Harkness to kill time? Talking about timing said acts? Jack saying he'll send everyone away? What else could they be getting up to? If Torchwood the show were as childish as Torchwood's crew are, the rest of the lot would come back to find Jack and Ianto trying to figure out who could, I dunno, frost the most cupcakes in a ten-minute interval. I have slightly higher hopes that Ianto will be retrieving his tie from Jack's office the morning after as he greets the others coming in for the morning.
They flirt so well :)
From the very start, even. In prep for this episode, I rewatched the pilot (the only other one Suzie was in), and Jack says what Ianto does to Gwen and then says he looks good in a suit. Ianto warns him off for that remark bordering (but not getting close enough to) sexual harassment. Ianto's comment about his not caring whether Jack was actually gay in "Day One" translated to "He's still having sex with me--what do I care if he's really straight?" Then there's their weird shit in "Cyberwoman," where Jack flipped out a lot on Ianto instead of trying to understand what would lead him to do something so risky, as he might have done back in his Who days. It was betrayal--not that Ianto had a woman on the side (Jack not being in a position to talk with his 80 yr old ex-fiance still in the picture, not to mention his being Jack), but that he would sacrifice the others including Jack for Lisa, or at least run that risk. Then there's the smoldering looks across the picnic table in "Countrycide." And you know what? Thank god for that. No, really, I am not a slash fan, and I've wanted Jack in Ianto's pants since "Cyberwoman," maybe before. Because it's not slash! It's Jack! Jack and anyone reasonably attractive = the win! Except that's not true. I don't like Gwen/Jack, though I'd take Tosh, Suzie, or Owen and Jack. But Ianto/Jack for me, thanks.
And then there's this for the ABSOLUTE WINNINGEST WIN EVER!
"I had a boyfriend who used to walk into rooms like that--a 'grand' entrance. Got kind of boring. Though, he was one of twins, so I put up with it. Twin acrobats. Man, I gotta write that book. Maybe even illustrate it."
:: massive stampede as all of fandom runs to Amazon to await its release::
