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Torchwood 1x04
holy. shit.
I...just...this...omg.
WATCH THIS SHOW, YOU GUYS.
SHIT. SHIT. OKAY. ACTUAL THOUGHTS.
Fuck, I had no idea they would throw so much at us so fast, but it just kept coming. They took all these little things and made them seriously frightening and...well, I don't think many shows would actually have killed the pizza girl. Or made the comment about the hard-on. Or had everyone keep making mistakes because that's what people do.
And we were all like HEE PTERODACTYL! but it's so terrifyingly calculating to have an amusing dinosaur flying around your underground lair that you have trained TO KILL THINGS. Kind of like rigging bombs in the walls and walking around with the remote in your pocket. (Though if Lisa escaped...does that mean the pterodactyl is dead? That would be sad.)
There were just so many little things that I loved, like the fact that Jack yelled CODE NINE MANOUEVRES and Gwen clearly had no idea what the hell was going on but dammit, she was going to be useful anyhow, and that the emotional tension NEVER STOPPED, and it didn't build up and then fizzle, it just built and built and crackled and tore in places and oh. oh. Love and monsters.
Owen is still an arse, but that line about women driving his car was SO WELL DONE (you can kind of tell a male wrote this episode) and he was so scared and so brave - don't touch her - and so real and yes all right I think he and Gwen are awesome and I want them to be irritated at each other all the time and then shag. Lots. Just...the way he kept pushing back her hair again and again when they were both trying to calm down, like he wasn't even thinking about it.
I saw the parallels - the double kiss - coming about thirty seconds out (thanks, promo trailers) and was thinking oh, this'll be contrived and weird, but...somehow, it wasn't. Somehow it was right. I think it was Gwen whispering what do we do? in that one perfect quiet moment, because that's what everyone was thinking, all the time, that's all anyone COULD be thinking when you're panicked and scared and trying to stay alive.
And Jack. Oh, god. Jack. I don't think anyone can treat 'Captain' as an affectation any more. He just kept taking hits - verbal ones, psychological ones and physical ones - and he still had the strength to hold his authority together in the face of four very frightened, very intelligent people who weren't going to stop asking questions.
You know, I don't think I want Ten/Jack any more. Jack is far too good for him.
Final wild squee: the basketball game at the beginning. It was fantastic when done in Firefly and it was fantastic here, even though it served the same purpose: to illuminate the single person not playing. It was River then and it was Ianto here. And it worked. And I loved it.
ETA: I am undecided as to whether this episode will slow the deluge of Jack/Ianto (because jesus christ, people, that was some quality nastiness they threw at each other) or - more likely, alas - cause it to double. HURRAH, EVEN *MORE* DEEP DARK MANPAIN!
I...just...this...omg.
WATCH THIS SHOW, YOU GUYS.
SHIT. SHIT. OKAY. ACTUAL THOUGHTS.
Fuck, I had no idea they would throw so much at us so fast, but it just kept coming. They took all these little things and made them seriously frightening and...well, I don't think many shows would actually have killed the pizza girl. Or made the comment about the hard-on. Or had everyone keep making mistakes because that's what people do.
And we were all like HEE PTERODACTYL! but it's so terrifyingly calculating to have an amusing dinosaur flying around your underground lair that you have trained TO KILL THINGS. Kind of like rigging bombs in the walls and walking around with the remote in your pocket. (Though if Lisa escaped...does that mean the pterodactyl is dead? That would be sad.)
There were just so many little things that I loved, like the fact that Jack yelled CODE NINE MANOUEVRES and Gwen clearly had no idea what the hell was going on but dammit, she was going to be useful anyhow, and that the emotional tension NEVER STOPPED, and it didn't build up and then fizzle, it just built and built and crackled and tore in places and oh. oh. Love and monsters.
Owen is still an arse, but that line about women driving his car was SO WELL DONE (you can kind of tell a male wrote this episode) and he was so scared and so brave - don't touch her - and so real and yes all right I think he and Gwen are awesome and I want them to be irritated at each other all the time and then shag. Lots. Just...the way he kept pushing back her hair again and again when they were both trying to calm down, like he wasn't even thinking about it.
I saw the parallels - the double kiss - coming about thirty seconds out (thanks, promo trailers) and was thinking oh, this'll be contrived and weird, but...somehow, it wasn't. Somehow it was right. I think it was Gwen whispering what do we do? in that one perfect quiet moment, because that's what everyone was thinking, all the time, that's all anyone COULD be thinking when you're panicked and scared and trying to stay alive.
And Jack. Oh, god. Jack. I don't think anyone can treat 'Captain' as an affectation any more. He just kept taking hits - verbal ones, psychological ones and physical ones - and he still had the strength to hold his authority together in the face of four very frightened, very intelligent people who weren't going to stop asking questions.
You know, I don't think I want Ten/Jack any more. Jack is far too good for him.
Final wild squee: the basketball game at the beginning. It was fantastic when done in Firefly and it was fantastic here, even though it served the same purpose: to illuminate the single person not playing. It was River then and it was Ianto here. And it worked. And I loved it.
ETA: I am undecided as to whether this episode will slow the deluge of Jack/Ianto (because jesus christ, people, that was some quality nastiness they threw at each other) or - more likely, alas - cause it to double. HURRAH, EVEN *MORE* DEEP DARK MANPAIN!