You people and your quaint little categories [spoilers for Torchwood]

[ewx]

Telling the poor chap he was dead was rather cruel. I think I'd have started with "you've been stabbed, the ambulance is coming".

I'm having Life On Mars flashbacks. Perhaps especially after she gets hit on the head.

I'm also reminded of the new Eagle's take on Dan Dare, in which the original Dan Dare turns out to have been a WWII pilot who travelled forward in time following a near miss with a Treen probe.

Tracking Torchwood down thru their pizza orders is cute. And hooray, a secret base with ominous corridors and ostentious doors and pet pterodactyls.

After "you brought him back to life", I'd have asked "how?", not "who are you?" (although that might have been soon after).

Well, don't people fall in?

Amnesia drug. Get writing.. Oh, good, she does. But I'd use something more secure than a computer, I think. Ah yes, there we go.

Susie seems like a rather wet serial killer... I wasn't very convinced by her, TBH.

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All the aerial night photos are reminding me of being up in the sky the other night.

No need to be rude to the soldiers, there job was pretty much to keep people out and they were doing it...

Bloke stares at woman
Woman stares back.
Man looks behind him.

Hahaha.

Is the CCTV stuff going to be a theme, or is it just convenient for this ep?

Why doesn't she try to seduce Jack? (Maybe she knows she'd fail.) Why is the hand on open display if it's so vitally important? (I know, I know...)

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Ianto and Toshiko don't seem to have made much of an impression from the first two episodes; it's too much Jack, Gwen and Owen. Hopefuly they'll get bigger roles in the future.

Comments

[songster.livejournal.com]

Can't stand the Owen character. And he's also extremely unpleasant to look at - looks like he's had his mouth cut at least three inches wider on each side. If he stays being such an important part of the program, I'll probably stop watching.

And OK - the plot lines are "adult". But do they have to be so self-consciously forced about it? Not impressed. Not impressed at all.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Deliberately unsympathetic character, I think, though the bit in #1 with everyone making off with alien gadgets suggests that most of the team's a bit flawed (though I don't think I spotted Ianto in that sequence?)

[songster.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure it's deliberately unsympathetic. But I think they pushed the mark a bit too hard, especially if he's to be a focal character.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I suspect the 'perception field' effect is somewhat like hypnosis - you can hypnotise someone not to see someone, but you can't hypnotise them to walk off the edge of a visible drop.

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

Like the "someone else's problem" field in Hitchhikers' ...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

That was the glaring obvious precedent, yes. Since the technobabble was pretty much the same, I expect the intended effect was, too.

[sparrowsion]

I thought the technobabble was one of the nicer bits of Dr Who continuity.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

The techno-babble might even be right. Anybody want to check the exact landing spot of the tardis relative to the torchwood entrance?

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I thought it was OK, but they were so predictable doing the whole gay slashy things with Captain Jack and the ugly one. I felt somewhat let down that Gwen and Susie didn't have a slash-tastic scene, mind you. Maybe if they put more explosions and special effects into the next one I'll be happy. ^_^

slashy things

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I think that was to be expected (http://ewx.livejournal.com/291473.html).

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

I found it a pleasing romp but I guess I was hoping for a little more grit. I found the 'their unsufferable arrogance and general unpleasantness will be tempered by the new girl's warm humanity' a bit flippant. And I am left wondering how exactly they covered over the tracks of the girl after they had rescued her from being the alien host. I guess we are supposed to assume in the same way they did the other cover-ups and not wonder if sheer numbers might stretch even Torchwood's resources.

I'll still watch it for a while.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Ianto is spending all that time off-screen arranging cover-ups. If you basically do it for a living then you probably get quite quick at it l-)