lyssie | Countrycide

I imagine there are some people who were only casually watching TW, who have stopped now.

But because I rather adored large bits of it, I decided to rewatch bits...

1. The scene with Gwen and Owen against the tree was probably very interesting to shoot, given the way they're all in each other's space and faces.
2. Owen nearly pukes at the first body, but Gwen loses it at the second.
3. Gwen gets shot in the abdomen--albeit, on the right side, and it misses anything vital--and gets right back up again and keeps on kicking ass. Seriously. How could I not love this? She has a job, and she doesn't let anything stop her, not even the excruciating pain from her midsection.
4. The episode is wonderfully creepy.
5. Owen is so very protective of Gwen. It's not something I noticed the first time round, but it's there, this time. And, yeah, it could just be because he wants to sleep with her, but it could also be because she's part of his team, and he's an ass, but you don't mess with his people.
6. Jack crashing through the doors and shooting everyone is still awesome.
7. No, seriously, Gwen is fucking awesome in this, and the choices she makes are painful and irrational and terribly human, and I love that about her. I love that she had to know and that the answer broke her and sent her mad. I love that she tried to let it go, but there wasn't any way to explain to Rhys--and I'm not sure he'd understand. No one who hadn't experienced being covered in blood with cannibals talking about eating you could understand.
8. Speaking of the blood, I love that people got injured and shot at and bloody and it wasn't magically wiped away between scenes. They were still filthy and bloodstained in the end, too.

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YES. It is, dude, it is the awesomest episode, in many many terms. Er. If you're us, anyway.

This was a pivotal ep for me, especially in regards to Owen and Gwen and the team in general. And all the people who seem to think Gwen was being immoral for sleeping with Owen. Because, okay, yeah... but it's not like she just decided glibly to have an affair. It's not a happy thing for her. It's something she's doing to survive. And surely there will be consequences, and she'll deal with them as she deals with everything, head on and standing up. (Unless she has a side full of buckshot, in which case she'll lie down for a little while anyway.)

But it was the first ep I really felt a team vibe too, and I really enjoyed that. Plus, it was just a damn creepy ep. Good lord!

And I really felt something akin to affection toward Owen finally.

The only stupid thing I winced at was when Gwen gave her gun over to the cannibal cop. She should have shot him. But then... that isn't really something she can do on a whim, like Jack. Especially after that accidental stabbing a few eps back...

(Well, fuck, I have no TW icons...)

Pivotal! That was the word I was looking for, yes. Because if you haven't been sold after Countrycide, you might as well just give up.

No, the Gwen and Owen thing ISN'T a happy thing, and it's just a trainwreck of badness in some ways. But it makes so much sense, why she did it (and why he did it, too).

I warned you that Owen grows on you like a mold.

Gwen is way less likely to shoot, though, so, yes. That worked perfectly in character, for her. Though she is at least trying to be competent with a gun.

I kept hearing that everyone hated this ep, yet I really liked it. Funny how that keeps happening with TW. I haven't hated an episode yet.

The scene with Gwen and Owen against the tree was one of the best things I've seen in ages.

I eagerly await your opinion of the episode in two weeks. I'm making a bet with myself.

Yeah, as was the bit with her trying to help her out, and they were standing all over each other, and yes I have a thing for people invading personal space (hello, Weir and Sheppard, who have no CONCEPT of personal space whatsoever) and standing on each other. Which is why, those scenes, even without the sound, are totally hot.

Countrycide was the first ep I thought rose above poor-to-middling - I liked it quite a bit, save for small details of the ending.

I love Countrycide.

...up until the kungfu finish.

*giggles* Awwwwww. But Jack with the guns is all kinds of hot!

Whenever I see that bit, the announcer from Unreal Tournament is in my head shouting "Double Kill! Triple Kill! Multikill! Megakill! Monsterkill! Holy Shit!". Then I usually fall over laughing.

*giggles madly*

No one who hadn't experienced being covered in blood with cannibals talking about eating you could understand.

...does that imply you have? o.0

ahahahah! No. I was just being overwrought about it.

I was gonna say, I don't think that's something I'd tell other people about until I was on my deathbed, or something, er...

;)

heheheh. Also, I don't remember the bat. Sorry.

No worries, the girl who stops for the fake body in the road had a bat in the car with her and then we see it again at the end when Chief of the Loonypants is talking about tenderizing. In retrospect, it doesn't look like a cricket bat at all but, baseball?

There are some eps that I'm refusing to rewatch, but there were some that I was kinda meh about the first time around, so I rewatched those. And "Countrycide" is severely fucked-up, but yeah, Gwen's actions in this ep and the continuing fallout with Owen made a lot more sense the second time round.

This definitely has to be the creepiest/scariest episode of the series.

*nods* I really haven't bothered rewatching most of them, but there was someone talking about it, and I remembered I'd wanted to rewatch bits, so....

Torchwood? It makes me happy.

Or at least, amused.

*snerk* It is amusing, yes.

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