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Been thinking about Owen, brains, and women. Yes, we know he doesn't apply brain when it's about women. And also he has big brains and ... hmm, doesn't use them to attract women? I just thought that, I'll poke it later. But what I mean is actual brains, as in the squishy skull contents. He's seen the brains of way too many women.

Mostly I'm thinking about 1-08, and a bit of 2-12. ( Read more... )


Not having an Owen to play with is annoying. He's got so many great ways to wind him up and set him off. And all that weren't even dealt with. Sure, he can handle the possibility of his own death, but if he turns out super resiliantly undead, Jack style immortal and outliving people... Owen having to cope with Toshiko's death would be story gold, specially if you try and get it so he's got a new relationship, or if he tries shagging Jack on the rebound because at least there's one guy he won't have to do an autopsy on, or... lots of things.

They never did enough with Tosh, there's bits about family and honor that can be found and spun into story, but I can see why letting her go might feel worky.

But there was so much more milage in Owen cause they'd messed him up so good already.



Atomic zombie Owen who's too radioactive to interact with anyone in person (except Jack) would be kind of fun too.

... Owen related plot bunnies seem to be the only sort I get lately.

No, I do get Ianto and Mickey ones too. Teaboy and Tin dog issues. Living your life for someone else, letting someone else define you. Following them into a career you'd never quite imagined. Becoming someone that seemed cool when they were in the movies.

Martha bunnies have to be coaxed out. There's a whole strand of overconfidence, people dying to save her, and being expected to kill people. That could be explored productively too.

Gwen and Jack are the least interesting to me. Gwen has Buffy issues, save the world vs normal life while defining normal real weird. Jack has Duncan issues, everyone he loves dies. I think I've kind of been there done that with those threads. I can get political with Jack, have him realise the path he's been on for so long is not the right one, that be fun. Gwen needs to learn a little diversity, that the ways of being human are infinite. But she also needs to learn more about her local normal being pretty damn cool. It's kind of like she needs to travel with the Doctor and then come home, but without the actual leaving Earth bit. Also defining human=good and alien=bad needs breaking up. But with what she's seen and still kept hold of that it's more plausible it just needs demonstrating to be a mess. She doesn't seem to budge on that. Is a bit annoying.

There's lots of themey strands in Torchwood to pick up and play with.

I've been working on a post about Owen's new sensory issues. As per usual I've been running into that thing where I know things a little but now have to trundle around the web evaluating the usefulness of sources. I've got like half a dozen windows open right now so I'm going to paste them in here and go do something else.

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Some of the same weaknesses as Small Worlds - unsurprisingly - but still a fun little episode. Heavy on the plot, but with some *fun* backstory. And GDL put a lot into it. I liked it. But. ( Read more... )
So... I love that we got interesting backstory for Jack and Ianto. I think the bad guys were sufficiently creepy, in fact that really worked for me. But I'm not sold on the plot solution, or the genre fit.

hey... we're on episode 10. How did we get to 10? No fair, there's hardly any left this season!

That was bloody good. And kind of an answer to the more depressing theme in last season. ( Read more... )

My recording didn't start until about a minute in because it was still recording the BBC2 episode. I don't know how to fix that. Grrr. And it was a good little speech too.

I really like this episode.
In fact, I really like this season. All the episodes. And I couldn't say that of the first season, even though I was crazy in fan-love with it.
Win.

If Owen is 27 and it takes years and years to do the MD thesis he mentioned on top of a medical degree and those foundation years, is it possible he'd only just done it by 1-01? Then that Doctor Owen Harper becomes less inherently obnoxious and more 'happy dance, passed, whee!'
Sort of thing.
... Except they get called doctor since the other degree, so that doesn't entirely work.
... okay, Owen=obnoxious after all.

Is about TW 2-06 Reset, so goes under the cut. ( Read more... )

I think I like it all, but watching it play out at one episode per week? Ouch!

2-05 Adam was great
and yet is now completely overshadowed by 2-06 Reset, despite intermittent clunk in the script, because of that ending... and then there was the Next Week to just... mess with our heads?
Urgh.
So spoilers for all of that lot.
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Okay, that's a whole lot of words. Reaction. And now I want to go watch them over again. Is there a repeat tonight? It feels like repeat time. But no, I can find no repeat.
... I have them on disc. Heh. No need repeat!

... is it next week yet?
... I wants next week.

Torchwood
Fic: Reshuffle
Gen, Owen & Ianto
Rating: 12 for swearing?
Spoilers: Torchwood first season
Summary: Somebody had to take over


Unbetaed, feel free to crit in comments.
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Fic rec: legionseagle.livejournal.com/10098.html
Can't Trace Time by legionseagle
link goes to last part, 10/10 complete, has links to all earlier parts.
Torchwood/Vorkosigan xover with Owen and Bel Thorne, plus a few other familiar faces.
Nice action plot, and lovely characterisation.

I read a story about Owen. I stayed up after class on two hours sleep because I wanted to see what happens next. And I liked it.

That's some quality writing, that is.








[broken link made visible March 2022]
think it was
https://archiveofourown.org/works/619277/chapters/1117399

Sometimes I read fic and it says 'Jack' but would make more sense to me in characterisation terms if it just said 'Owen'.

So I wonder, how much overlap do people see?

Because Jack at his worst has some rather nasty traits, but I didn't think he had the same nasty as Owen. Not quite. Owen's more about what Jack isn't.

But of course there's vast argument about if Owen is what I saw from 1-01 or... whatever the heck alternatives people see that I can't.



And a lot of how I see Jack boils down to me believing he's poly enough he just isn't wired the way all these monogamous fics seem to see. Which I have to admit is only likely, rather than proven.