Torchwood: The I finally saw some edition

[lyssie]

Episode one: Promising start.
Episode two: Now, that, is how you shoot bathroom porn.

1. I expected to hate Gwen. I haven't traveled widely in TW fandom, but I'd seen a lot of "Gosh, she's useless" and, um... She really wasn't. She was curious, she did some homework, she tracked them down and... was pretty intelligent, all told. She tried to keep her memories and failed (upchucking was a possibility that Jack would have considered, I suspect, and thus, not helpful).

2. Jack's coat is pretty.

3. Jack, himself, is emo. *pats Jack* Don't worry, man. The Doctor will come for his hand one of these days.

4. Speaking of the hand, Gwen/Karys was all kinds of hot. In all honesty, if I try to take this show seriously, I might be weirded out by alien influence. But, whatever (has TW hit every stupid fanfic cliche yet? At least this wasn't Sam having to be fucked by Daniel, Jack and Teal'c), aliens made them do it, and Gwen? Slightly blushy, but not needing to go wash her mouth out.

5. Also. Porn in a bathroom. With the hands and the legs and the wall and, um...

6. Suzie was awesome, and fucked-up, and given that I've seen bits of spoilers, yay.

7. Owen wants to be Tony DiNozzo, and fails miserably. Owen? Go watch some NCIS to see how it's done. You? Are just kind of pathetic.

8. Tosh, baby, talk more computers at me.

9. "Sometimes it does the heart good to technobabble." Oh, Jack.

10. Gwen running the dossier on Karys was rather brilliant--at least, if you're me and have watched far too many cop shows. Jack told her to humanize them, and she did what she does best--she went back to the basics of being a cop/detective. If you can call it that. *shrug* I give her ten years to become a decent criminal profiler, but she's got the victims down.

11. Oh, oh, episode one. I just can't put into words why I liked it. Maybe it was the silly establishing shots, maybe it was the rain, or Jack's emo, or him getting shot and falling. Hrm.

12. Obviously, I have very low expectations. I do watch BSG, you know.

13. I may come to dislike Gwen with her wide-eyed innocence. We'll see.

Comments

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

1. Just wait.

7. Owen gets annoying as fuck, IMO. Though he's got some nice moments, too.

12. Hee!

13. Most likely. Oy.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I wait good.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

I found TW really, really spotty over the thirteen episodes, but I really did enjoy the first couple eps myself. Largely for the stuff you mention. Oh, and Jack's suspenders and trousers and ass. Hey, TW is quite often all about the shallow.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Jack's ass is nice. Gwen kissing girls is hot. I'm kinda like, "oooh, eye-candy. yay."

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much how I am about the show too. It works for me.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

Iiiiii would have to say "word" to just about every one of yours points here.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

yay! *glees*

[scarfman]

Just saw these myself, though the d/l qtrhorserider found of episode 2 was so skippy it was about half the runtime so I imagine we missed a lot. Like, you know, the whole climax of the story, and I'm sure I mean that literally. We like it so far, but the criticism I've read of the season which seems to have stuck in my head is "Torchwood Three spends all its time fixing its own mistakes" and so far I haven't seen anything that contradicts that.

But, Jack? "That [allusion to Christmas Invasion which I keep on my desk to keep my own angst always forefront in my mind and the audience's] means nothing to anyone but me" isn't dissuasive when the subject is trying to get away from you.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

"Torchwood Three spends all its time fixing its own mistakes"

This, plus, by my count, more people tend to die because they got involved than if they never did...

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I started enjoying the show more when I accepted both of these as The Way Things Were Going To Be.

Jack is still a con artist at his core, which means he can juggle all sorts of complicated wackiness as long as his success is measured by a particular tangible goal, to be attained at a particular tangible point in time. He's got neither of those, but is still good enough at playing the confident, together leader that the others don't twig. :: stops train of thought before it becomes spoilery ::

Once I settled into the view that what we have here is a collection of reasonably well-meaning people who are totally making it up as they go along, and amassing an impressive record of clusterfucks in the process, I was surprisingly okay with it.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Timey and I said the same thing, when he said that.

[skellingtonjon.livejournal.com]

Part of me loves Torchwood.

The other part of me wants to set fire to myself for writing that.

Go figure.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Well, think of it this way: it's kinda mindless candy.

Also? Black Air pwns them. (that totally makes everything better)

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Dude.

1. I kinda love Gwen. But then again, she hits my 'brunette who starts all innocent but ends up kinda dead 'ard' button. She has her ups and downs in the season, like they all do.

4. Oh. There's much, much more.

5. Oh. There's much, much more. Though not in bathrooms.

7. Owen... I wanted to hate him for being pathetic, but eventually it somewhow endeared me to him.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

1. HAH. This so does not surprise me. ;)
4. Good.
5. Even better.
7. He's... really pathetic, but pales next to Tony. Tony would pwn his ass in a heartbeat. And not in the fun, let's have sex way. (Oh, Torchwood, and you're "everyone is bi" stance)

[bsgnightsky.livejournal.com]

You didn't mention Ianto! Granted, he's not exactly important until later in the series, but Ianto is all kinds of welsh butler/handyman hotness. *nods*

Gwen is just goddamn annoying. Especially where her boyfriend is concerned.

And Tosh... Tosh is great. I quite like the epi later on in the series that's centered around her.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

The butler fanon drives me crazy... gah, I hate that, fandom seized on the "Alfred" comment, and assumed it meant butler rather than, like, the go-to guy ex-spy who makes sure the guns are loaded and files are ready. What he is in canon is the mob's clean-up man.

[bsgnightsky.livejournal.com]

There was an 'Alfred' comment?

The way Ianto is presented on the show - up until 'Cyberwoman' - is as the quintessential butler - just one who happens to work for Torchwood. Of course we know that isn't the case, especially in said epi when Ianto becomes a proper character in his own right, but up until then he's just the 'cool manservant'. I find it kinda quaint. I guess it goes across well in places like the USA, where they see the british as all having servants and living in country manors :P

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I meant to, but I liked my 13.

And. *covers eyes so as to ignore spoilers and such*

[zahdahe.livejournal.com]

You're gonna love Jack and Ianto(pronouced Yanto- its Welsh). Well Jack witheverything with a pulse and an orifice. He's such a lovely slut. Ianto is well Ianto really! True civil servant to the end!

[zahdahe.livejournal.com]

Um what's Black Air. Something new?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ianto was amusing, at least.

And Black Air is a British special ops group. And, actually, Torchwood is new compared to them. BA were created roun 1995, by Warren Ellis in the Excalibur comic.