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Yeah, so I didn't not post yesterday because of the boycott. It just sort of worked out that way. I forgot all about doing a drabble, though, because I was working on a real story (!). Why, no, it wasn't any of my WIPs, it was a brand new one. ADD is fun.
So anyway! Double Torchwood week. And I'm kinda ded from tired, so I'm gonna try and keep my thoughts short.
So that was . . . interesting. I had kind of a sinking feeling that doing an origins story so late in the run of the show was going to be a bad idea, and I was not entirely wrong. Happily, it wasn't an incoherent bad idea like "From Out of the Rain," nor was it bleak and vaguely annoying like "Adrift." Instead, it was just hilarious. Mostly.
My brief thoughts on each segment:
Jack: God, it's fun to watch John Barrowman just totally overact the living shit out of EVERYTHING. The story itself pretty much confirmed what everyone except me already thought (I never mentioned it to anyone, but I assumed based on Jack's comments to the Doctor in "The Sound of Drums" [I think] that Jack had joined up with Torchwood fairly recently. I lose!), and was otherwise unremarkable. I think. I don't know, I kept pausing the ep to write, so it took like three hours to watch it. I've already forgotten most of the details of the first third of the episode. (That's a ringing endorsement, isn't it?)
Tosh: Eek. There is no funny here. There is just very unsettling and creepy. But at least Jack was an enormous douchebag, which is new. Oh wait.
Ianto: The good news - Ianto's mastery of all things coffee is officially canon, which is amusing, and the episode contained what was possibly the most believeable Jack/Ianto moment in the show's entire run, which is too little too late but was quite enjoyable to watch because I do love me some UST.
The bad news - they somehow found a way to make Ianto's backstory MAKE EVEN LESS SENSE. I SERIOUSLY FUCKING GIVE UP. The Lisa thing was insanely ridiculous even when one could assume that Ianto was transferred to Torchwood Three/hired by Jack in fairly short order, like maybe within a couple of days, which is stupid but fuck it, so's the entire storyline. But now we are meant to believe that Ianto had to hike out to Cardiff, spend a few days hassling Jack, and hang out with Myfanwy (whose name, correct me if I'm wrong, STILL wasn't mentioned) for however long it takes for a pterodactyl and a human to bond, AND that Lisa was officially deceased (as Ianto told Jack), and so WHERE THE FUCK WAS HE KEEPING HER THAT WHOLE TIME?? I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY MANAGED TO MAKE THAT STORY EVEN WORSE. WELL PLAYED, TORCHWOOD.
AND WHILE I'M IN ALL CAPS, I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT IANTO IS YOUNGER THAN I AM. BY LIKE SIX MONTHS. THIS DOES NOT SIT WELL WITH ME. I HAVE ISSUES ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING.
Owen: Oh, Owen. Oh, Owen. I'm so sorry. I am so very sorry that I had to keep pausing during your segment to laugh hysterically because your fiancée, Mary Sue, had crazy-early onset Alzheimer's, then a tumor that just sort of randomly showed up, and then a squid on her brain. It truly is tragic that your backstory most resembled a terrible fanfic.
On the other hand, you got to punch the shit out of Jack, which was entirely fucking awesome and worth sitting through the rest of it. Yes, even your speech about making your life worthwhile by saving others, except the bastards keep wanting to be saved, and I think it would be best if we just kept the punching-Jack part and pretended the rest of it never happened. Oh, except for the working up a load of delicious UST with Jack part. That part was good. It can stay too.
In other news, John Hart is the worst mad bomber in the history of ever. Way not to kill ANY of them, even though they were all STANDING DIRECTLY OVER YOUR BOMBS AT THE TIME OF EXPLOSION. Dude, you suck.
Overall, I think I kind of loved this episode after it was over, but did not particularly enjoy it while it was playing. I mean, it took me three hours to watch the whole thing. I think that pretty much speaks for itself.
Well. Sort of short.
So anyway! Double Torchwood week. And I'm kinda ded from tired, so I'm gonna try and keep my thoughts short.
So that was . . . interesting. I had kind of a sinking feeling that doing an origins story so late in the run of the show was going to be a bad idea, and I was not entirely wrong. Happily, it wasn't an incoherent bad idea like "From Out of the Rain," nor was it bleak and vaguely annoying like "Adrift." Instead, it was just hilarious. Mostly.
My brief thoughts on each segment:
Jack: God, it's fun to watch John Barrowman just totally overact the living shit out of EVERYTHING. The story itself pretty much confirmed what everyone except me already thought (I never mentioned it to anyone, but I assumed based on Jack's comments to the Doctor in "The Sound of Drums" [I think] that Jack had joined up with Torchwood fairly recently. I lose!), and was otherwise unremarkable. I think. I don't know, I kept pausing the ep to write, so it took like three hours to watch it. I've already forgotten most of the details of the first third of the episode. (That's a ringing endorsement, isn't it?)
Tosh: Eek. There is no funny here. There is just very unsettling and creepy. But at least Jack was an enormous douchebag, which is new. Oh wait.
Ianto: The good news - Ianto's mastery of all things coffee is officially canon, which is amusing, and the episode contained what was possibly the most believeable Jack/Ianto moment in the show's entire run, which is too little too late but was quite enjoyable to watch because I do love me some UST.
The bad news - they somehow found a way to make Ianto's backstory MAKE EVEN LESS SENSE. I SERIOUSLY FUCKING GIVE UP. The Lisa thing was insanely ridiculous even when one could assume that Ianto was transferred to Torchwood Three/hired by Jack in fairly short order, like maybe within a couple of days, which is stupid but fuck it, so's the entire storyline. But now we are meant to believe that Ianto had to hike out to Cardiff, spend a few days hassling Jack, and hang out with Myfanwy (whose name, correct me if I'm wrong, STILL wasn't mentioned) for however long it takes for a pterodactyl and a human to bond, AND that Lisa was officially deceased (as Ianto told Jack), and so WHERE THE FUCK WAS HE KEEPING HER THAT WHOLE TIME?? I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY MANAGED TO MAKE THAT STORY EVEN WORSE. WELL PLAYED, TORCHWOOD.
AND WHILE I'M IN ALL CAPS, I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT IANTO IS YOUNGER THAN I AM. BY LIKE SIX MONTHS. THIS DOES NOT SIT WELL WITH ME. I HAVE ISSUES ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING.
Owen: Oh, Owen. Oh, Owen. I'm so sorry. I am so very sorry that I had to keep pausing during your segment to laugh hysterically because your fiancée, Mary Sue, had crazy-early onset Alzheimer's, then a tumor that just sort of randomly showed up, and then a squid on her brain. It truly is tragic that your backstory most resembled a terrible fanfic.
On the other hand, you got to punch the shit out of Jack, which was entirely fucking awesome and worth sitting through the rest of it. Yes, even your speech about making your life worthwhile by saving others, except the bastards keep wanting to be saved, and I think it would be best if we just kept the punching-Jack part and pretended the rest of it never happened. Oh, except for the working up a load of delicious UST with Jack part. That part was good. It can stay too.
In other news, John Hart is the worst mad bomber in the history of ever. Way not to kill ANY of them, even though they were all STANDING DIRECTLY OVER YOUR BOMBS AT THE TIME OF EXPLOSION. Dude, you suck.
Overall, I think I kind of loved this episode after it was over, but did not particularly enjoy it while it was playing. I mean, it took me three hours to watch the whole thing. I think that pretty much speaks for itself.
Well. Sort of short.
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