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metztlimoonOkay, here are my angles. I don't actually have angles because I'm a very very curvy lady, but hey.
1) Overall the first episode was slicker, tidier, better acted and better choreographed than most of the last season. The team worked better together and were better drawn as characters.
2) The Jack/Gwen scene was like being hit by a stick, as opposed to jack/john which was like being hit by a riding crop administered by John Simm's Master in leather, and Jack/Ianto which was like being hit by a hot chocolate fudge cake served with cornish ice cream. "Tell Jack I...." was a tac nuke and it was clumsy clumsy clumsy. In my head it is best followed by the words ..... borrowed his razor / stole his toothpaste / I'm sorry but I had the Doctor last week, on Jack's bed. Twice. With whipped cream.
3) Dear Gods will they please hire someone who can write convincing female characters with depth, smarts, strength of will and proper angst. Like a woman. (Me?) It's not that I dislike Gwen, (although sometimes I want to give er a slap)- sometimes she really seems to have it, and then it's evaporated again. She didn't deserve the slapper tag... sorry but presented with such a leap from mundane tea and neighbors world to Aliens and Immortality, yeh, you'd go off the rails I think.
4) In this episode what grated me about the whole 'you're getting married' scene was that I'd seen no prior evidence for Jack to look so wounded (defensive pose, yo) by it. It just seemed clumsy somehow, like it was added as an afterthought by someone with the emotional writing skills of a brick. (CF the face of Boe comment in LoTL) It wasn't a flirt from where I was sitting, it just ruined the impact of the reference to dying so many times. (Tortured to death on the Valiant every morning for the Master to work up an appetite, anyone?). I mean if they want to do Jack and Gwen, please to do it with more sensitivity and more groundwork. And a reason why he'd pick her, tbh. She's not special enough for him to fall for, imho. Bonk, maybe, but fall for? Nah.
5) Ianto, with balls and funnies. Wins. Maybe the J/I scene did paint him as 2nd choice (I don't mind the tradgedy, tbh) but it's not really Gwen he's 2nd best to, is it. I write J/I. I could even be said to ship J/I. But like, I also ship (and write) Jack/Doctor, and frankly in my head they're all second best to Jack after that. I'm looking forward to seeing broken Ianto this season... I have a feeling it's coming.
6) Gray...... oh yes. Oh so yes. just, yes yes yes for the mystery and the speculation.
7) Torchwood..... how unsecret can you be!
2) The Jack/Gwen scene was like being hit by a stick, as opposed to jack/john which was like being hit by a riding crop administered by John Simm's Master in leather, and Jack/Ianto which was like being hit by a hot chocolate fudge cake served with cornish ice cream. "Tell Jack I...." was a tac nuke and it was clumsy clumsy clumsy. In my head it is best followed by the words ..... borrowed his razor / stole his toothpaste / I'm sorry but I had the Doctor last week, on Jack's bed. Twice. With whipped cream.
3) Dear Gods will they please hire someone who can write convincing female characters with depth, smarts, strength of will and proper angst. Like a woman. (Me?) It's not that I dislike Gwen, (although sometimes I want to give er a slap)- sometimes she really seems to have it, and then it's evaporated again. She didn't deserve the slapper tag... sorry but presented with such a leap from mundane tea and neighbors world to Aliens and Immortality, yeh, you'd go off the rails I think.
4) In this episode what grated me about the whole 'you're getting married' scene was that I'd seen no prior evidence for Jack to look so wounded (defensive pose, yo) by it. It just seemed clumsy somehow, like it was added as an afterthought by someone with the emotional writing skills of a brick. (CF the face of Boe comment in LoTL) It wasn't a flirt from where I was sitting, it just ruined the impact of the reference to dying so many times. (Tortured to death on the Valiant every morning for the Master to work up an appetite, anyone?). I mean if they want to do Jack and Gwen, please to do it with more sensitivity and more groundwork. And a reason why he'd pick her, tbh. She's not special enough for him to fall for, imho. Bonk, maybe, but fall for? Nah.
5) Ianto, with balls and funnies. Wins. Maybe the J/I scene did paint him as 2nd choice (I don't mind the tradgedy, tbh) but it's not really Gwen he's 2nd best to, is it. I write J/I. I could even be said to ship J/I. But like, I also ship (and write) Jack/Doctor, and frankly in my head they're all second best to Jack after that. I'm looking forward to seeing broken Ianto this season... I have a feeling it's coming.
6) Gray...... oh yes. Oh so yes. just, yes yes yes for the mystery and the speculation.
7) Torchwood..... how unsecret can you be!
Idle speculation- I dont read spoilers/ episode summaries/ reveals
1) Ianto breaks lots. Yum. I'm twisted like that.
2) those pink posters cropped up twice in the episode- first on the road crossing and then on a lamppost. gotta be relevant I think.
3) Rhys' new job? That company has gotta be dodgy I think.
4) Tosh/ Owen .... set up for that much?
what I'd like to see....
1) Jack broken after confronting the very very dark things in his past.
1) Ianto breaks lots. Yum. I'm twisted like that.
2) those pink posters cropped up twice in the episode- first on the road crossing and then on a lamppost. gotta be relevant I think.
3) Rhys' new job? That company has gotta be dodgy I think.
4) Tosh/ Owen .... set up for that much?
what I'd like to see....
1) Jack broken after confronting the very very dark things in his past.
A final word on ship wars.....
Yo all. You know those disclaimers we put in our fics... we don't own....yadda yadda ......
Remember that.
Of all the stupid things to get angry about when there's real suffering in the world. Go write your MP with your righteous indignation. Go write the best fic in the world. Go have a bath. See, my favourite colour is green and yours is blue so why are we getting all insulting over this arbitrary preference again?
Yo all. You know those disclaimers we put in our fics... we don't own....yadda yadda ......
Remember that.
Of all the stupid things to get angry about when there's real suffering in the world. Go write your MP with your righteous indignation. Go write the best fic in the world. Go have a bath. See, my favourite colour is green and yours is blue so why are we getting all insulting over this arbitrary preference again?
