Torchwood #6 (spoilers)

[ewx]

• Unusual to see Ianto out of the office. You can see why they might not trust him there though.
• Can you catch hepatitis from a burger?
• Tosh getting a bit more airtime than usual, perhaps. The teaser looked like next week might be a Tosh ep too.
• “This has all the hallmarks of a trap.” “I was thinking the same thing. Anyone fancy a walk?” “Ah. We must be in TV.”
• All those shoes. You're going to be EATEN ALIVE BY IMELDA MARCOS.
• Holing up in the pub was very Shaun Of The Dead.

So I'm happy to say I was right about the fascination with the less pleasant side of human behavior: no aliens at all here, just people eating one another because they like it. And why not?

I must say I'm having trouble seeing what Gwen can possibly see in Owen; and if you want an answer to Barry Norman's question, well, there's tens of millions of other people and quite a few aliens, not all of them hideous, on the same island. Perhaps it's time for Jack to use Zaphod's line; this is after all British SF.

Ianto losing track of Tosh was genuinely tense and was probably the high point of the episode. I suspect they were aiming for Jack busting in and saving the day to be the best bit, but it just reminded me of the A-Team (which I'm still waiting for the film remake of), which I guess was a perfectly good resolution within the parameters of Torchwood but was really quite hopeless as part of a well-honed plot.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I thought the second list item being empty was really witty comment on the episode, but on closer examination I think you may have said <li> instead of </li>

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Ah, this browser doesn't show the empty LI. Should be fixed.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah! (I can't decide which is more logical.) Sorry for bringing it up, I just thought it was funny :)

[rmc28]

It was all very horror-movie, at least in my deliberately-limited experience of the genre. The wind was adding appropriate sound-effects in real-life too.

Gwen seems to be stupid. Running off into a dark night with a shotgun wound, failing to shoot the corrupt policeman, pushing the obvious psychopath for an answer to why he's a psychopath. Owen's just the most glaring bit of evidence really.

Jack's darker side more in evidence (torture, shooting-to-wound).

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

pushing the obvious psychopath for an answer to why he's a psychopath
To enable him to give the "coz it makes me happy" line.

failing to shoot the corrupt policeman
To show she's not just a vicious bastard, and is therefore a GoodGuy

Running off into a dark night with a shotgun wound
Well, we've all done that. It was only a flesh wound.

All well-known cliches really. Pretty much expected in our house.

[dave holland (from livejournal.com)]

Gwen is becoming too stupid to be enjoyable...

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

You're going to be EATEN ALIVE BY IMELDA MARCOS

Mark's comment was "Ah, so it's female, then."

I must say I'm having trouble seeing what Gwen can possibly see in Owen

She's a humungous dipshit with no moral compass, apparently. I am definitely going to take a deeply malicious pleasure in redacting this one.

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

And yet we will all watch it next week. And I can not for the life me tell you why. Perhaps someone else will be better able to articulate it.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

There's bugger-all else on.

[imc.livejournal.com]

Unless you like LOST (which I don't).

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

It's the collective consciousness thing. TV (even bad TV) works best when it's a shared experience.

[dave holland (from livejournal.com)]

morbid curiosity?