"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." Torchwood S2e01 – Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Yay, it’s started. Oh look, a fish in a car.
God almighty, the scene with the granny is edited. So. Slow. Ly.
Jack’s not here. It’s like the Scoobies without Buffy.
That Blowfish is straight out of the RSC. Is that a gun which I see before me?
Ah, Jack’s back. Ianto’s jealous of the Doctor, poor thing.
Oh. The Marsters. Not a fan. Not of the cheeks. Not of the acting. Sorry.
Hee, just when you’re thinking that’s so ‘help me Obi Wan Kenobi’… there it is.
Yeah, yeah, kiss already. Why not fall through the floor as well?
… campy banter, blah blah.
Intimate scene between Gwen and Jack. For a second there I thought he was going all Roy Batty on us. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate…
You know I’m really starting to doubt Barrowman’s ability to act a lead (drama) part. Perhaps if they did a musical episode?
Aw, Rhys proposed. He’s sweet.
See? Once a rapist, always… oh sorry, wrong ‘verse. Heh.
Talking about rapists… this verse has got its own. Oh hi, Owen. When’s he hooking up with Tosh then?
Run, Ianto, run.
Has Marsters had some work done? The eyes look weird.
Oh noes, he’s killed Jack. Good old… immortal Jack.
How fast did the Scoobies drive to get back to Jack so quickly?
Ooooh, there’s the stopwatch. Get it?
Huh, what, rift? W’happen?
Hey, he can’t go out in the sunlight, he’ll go woosh!
I have no idea what’s happening.
What did he say? He found who?
Hmm.
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Hmm indeed. I’m not sure whether I liked that or not. What I didn’t like – always my perennial moan with the new Who too – was the 50 min episode length. They should have kept it at one hour.
What really ticked me off was, apart from stunt casting in the first place, the way they made James Marsters the star of the show in all the promo stuff. That’s not a nice thing to do to your ensemble cast. It’s saying ‘we have no faith in your star power’ and ‘we really, really, really want to make this an even bigger hit on BBC America’.
Also… that wasn’t a new character. The writer just wrote Spike.
It was definitely funnier than last season. Now all they need to work on is delivery. Barrowman has the oddest timing, and not in a good way.
I watched it with my mum, who’s a big Who, Star Trek & Buffy fan. It was the first time she’d seen it, so I had that seeing-it-through-the-other-person’s-eyes thing going on.
It all seemed rather silly and camp, nowhere near as sharp and sexy as either Who or Buffy. Too much action, not enough plot.
Gwen is definitely the star of the show, as far as that particular story is concerned. And she spent half the episode lying on the floor paralysed.
I fear for Torchwood. In an interview that I read last week, RTD said that now they’ve got over the first-series hurdle of knowing whether it was going to work or not, the second series is lighter, with less angst. But, like Buffy and Who, it was the angst that gave it depth…
Yeah, angst makes good telly. But they’re kind of stuck with a lead actor who can’t do angst very well.
I’m not keen on Gwen, she shouts too much, so I was glad she was paralysed for most of the episode :-)
They’re apparently giving Ianto more work this season, which is good, I like him.
Yeah, Ianto was good in the first series because there was a sense of mystery: the dark horse, still waters running deep, etc. I hope they don’t lose that. The worst thing that could happen to his character is that he turns into Much out of Robin Hood, always whining about how his master doesn’t love him enough.