Torchwood: 1-08: They Keep Killing
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beccaelizabethI'm back in love again.
That brought the dark, the creepy, the twisty, and the funny. And ended with pure slashbait. There is no bad here.
Plenty of room for fanfiction, but no bad.
New list - 101 things to do with a stopwatch that can make Jack grin like that.
Although, if it is what we think it is, there's a few things missing. Like, oh I don't know, how it got from 'I'll let you die' to 'stopwatch'.
But... Jack/Ianto=canon. This is a first.
But back at the start of the episode...
I like how this one unfolded. It was a tight twisty mystery. There was no 'btw now we do the total opposite'.
It does require Suzie to be a total supergenius. One wonders if her middle name was Mary. But it makes her eversomuch fun that she can be that emo poetry and yet that machiavelli at the same time.
Okay, I give up... coherent review will have to wait for later.
Sitting here with giant grin on face.
Dead of squee.
heh
Death by Torchwood ;-)
I love that Gwen's massive stupidity wasn't out of character. Not that she's stupid. Just that if the thing works through empathy and she's little miss human heart then having it get her killed and Jack of the too cold attitude save her just rather makes sense. Is fun. And... undoes some of the earlier annoying? I mean, preachy and the voice of the show makes for eeew, but preachy and getting shot in the head really slowly... well, that's rather something else.
They store *everyone* in there? Every single Torchwood employee ever is in an icebox?
... I just had the really fucked up thought 'and Jack has shagged how many of them?'
I *swear* I meant while they were still alive.
Jack's recruitment speech to Gwen seems to have missed out some things that he said to Suzie. Or was that S being twisty again? One wonders, did she shag Owen? Or was that a good guess and some psychology? Because that one would surely hit home. Replace her in her job, okay, that happens. Job+boyfriend? Whole other thing.
Not that boyfriend is the right word, given his thing with the spray.
I don't think that one's settled. Suzie weren't exactly a reliable narrator.
Coming back from the dead to kill her father? Oh yeah... I honestly didn't see that one coming. I love it when they twist hard enough to surprise me.
Damn, found a hole... If Gwen's car has a tracer - and this is standard - and they were at a *hospital*, where there are *many* people - why the FUCK didn't miss machiavelli *steal a car*?!?!?
... Okay, apart from that, all perfect.
Well, I think it's prety clear that she was fucked in the head. I just don't like using that as a motivation.
Ianto, gloves come in pairs. *Thankyou*. This is why I like Ianto best.
Plus, using the waterfall to get a signal out. Smart is sexy.
... I'm back to thinking about the stopwatch.
We get a time stamp on this one, three months since the first episode. So their time is running a little faster than ours, yesno? So it has been longer for Ianto than for viewers.
Thing of it is, unless all that happened between emo-rats and here, well... bit of a turn around.
He was smiling a bit more from right early on. And he got plenty to do, even if it was mostly fetching things. And being smart.
Tosh got very little to do. Block shooting, guess we know where she was.
... er, does the math work that way?
ANYways...
Jack's little speech when Gwen drama stomps into his office, about the boyfriend - twins - acrobat - books - I can talk a lot
:-)
see, this is Jack I missed. He's a lot more fun.
... But he was fun last week, and Ianto was still miserable.
... Either the fun does not correlate to sex or you have to start getting twisty with the motivations and stuff. drat.
... Really, is there any other possible interpretation of things to do with a stopwatch that would require the others go home?
At all?
... my happy land says not.
further thought will have to wait for more watching.
The last two eps I didn't want to download. This one I'm happily waiting for.
That brought the dark, the creepy, the twisty, and the funny. And ended with pure slashbait. There is no bad here.
Plenty of room for fanfiction, but no bad.
New list - 101 things to do with a stopwatch that can make Jack grin like that.
Although, if it is what we think it is, there's a few things missing. Like, oh I don't know, how it got from 'I'll let you die' to 'stopwatch'.
But... Jack/Ianto=canon. This is a first.
But back at the start of the episode...
I like how this one unfolded. It was a tight twisty mystery. There was no 'btw now we do the total opposite'.
It does require Suzie to be a total supergenius. One wonders if her middle name was Mary. But it makes her eversomuch fun that she can be that emo poetry and yet that machiavelli at the same time.
Okay, I give up... coherent review will have to wait for later.
Sitting here with giant grin on face.
Dead of squee.
heh
Death by Torchwood ;-)
I love that Gwen's massive stupidity wasn't out of character. Not that she's stupid. Just that if the thing works through empathy and she's little miss human heart then having it get her killed and Jack of the too cold attitude save her just rather makes sense. Is fun. And... undoes some of the earlier annoying? I mean, preachy and the voice of the show makes for eeew, but preachy and getting shot in the head really slowly... well, that's rather something else.
They store *everyone* in there? Every single Torchwood employee ever is in an icebox?
... I just had the really fucked up thought 'and Jack has shagged how many of them?'
I *swear* I meant while they were still alive.
Jack's recruitment speech to Gwen seems to have missed out some things that he said to Suzie. Or was that S being twisty again? One wonders, did she shag Owen? Or was that a good guess and some psychology? Because that one would surely hit home. Replace her in her job, okay, that happens. Job+boyfriend? Whole other thing.
Not that boyfriend is the right word, given his thing with the spray.
I don't think that one's settled. Suzie weren't exactly a reliable narrator.
Coming back from the dead to kill her father? Oh yeah... I honestly didn't see that one coming. I love it when they twist hard enough to surprise me.
Damn, found a hole... If Gwen's car has a tracer - and this is standard - and they were at a *hospital*, where there are *many* people - why the FUCK didn't miss machiavelli *steal a car*?!?!?
... Okay, apart from that, all perfect.
Well, I think it's prety clear that she was fucked in the head. I just don't like using that as a motivation.
Ianto, gloves come in pairs. *Thankyou*. This is why I like Ianto best.
Plus, using the waterfall to get a signal out. Smart is sexy.
... I'm back to thinking about the stopwatch.
We get a time stamp on this one, three months since the first episode. So their time is running a little faster than ours, yesno? So it has been longer for Ianto than for viewers.
Thing of it is, unless all that happened between emo-rats and here, well... bit of a turn around.
He was smiling a bit more from right early on. And he got plenty to do, even if it was mostly fetching things. And being smart.
Tosh got very little to do. Block shooting, guess we know where she was.
... er, does the math work that way?
ANYways...
Jack's little speech when Gwen drama stomps into his office, about the boyfriend - twins - acrobat - books - I can talk a lot
:-)
see, this is Jack I missed. He's a lot more fun.
... But he was fun last week, and Ianto was still miserable.
... Either the fun does not correlate to sex or you have to start getting twisty with the motivations and stuff. drat.
... Really, is there any other possible interpretation of things to do with a stopwatch that would require the others go home?
At all?
... my happy land says not.
further thought will have to wait for more watching.
The last two eps I didn't want to download. This one I'm happily waiting for.
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Date: 2006-12-03 11:18 pm (UTC)At all?
I can't think of one, and the IM conversation on the website (http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/suzie/im.shtml) certainly doesn't point in any direction other than the obvious ("loving you in that suit" indeed)
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Date: 2006-12-03 11:40 pm (UTC)Ianto: Thank you sir but it's probably best if I do the rhymes.
:-D
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Date: 2006-12-04 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-09 11:16 pm (UTC):-)
Heeeee. That was a good scene.
I'm a little confused about this episode. How did Suzie know that Max would become a serial killer and write bloody 'Torchwood' on the wall? And how did she know that Torchwood would bring her back to life? Did she know it would be Gwen that she would be killing by Glove, or was she planning on it being one of the others? Please use your giant brain and explain this to me. ;)
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Date: 2007-10-09 11:24 pm (UTC)http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/brainwashing/
Suzie knew what Max would do because she programmed him to do it. She may or may not have known that Torchwood would bring her back to life. If they didn't, she had some messy revenge. If they did, yaays for her. If she'd merely been retconned then they'd have to trigger her memories to get the data they wanted. Win-win-win from her point of view.
Or, alternatively, the writers thought up something really cool and sort of skate fast past the logic bits.
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Date: 2007-10-09 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-10 08:29 am (UTC)And also she was there when they were researching Gwen so she knows how he reacted then.