thescarletwoman | Torchwood: Children of Earth

I'm exhausted and had a 9 hour drive back from New York. However, nothing was standing between me and my Torchwood. NOTHING.

Brief thoughts, I'll do a more coherent review tomorrow. ♥

Spoilers, reactions as I was watching. And yes, that one scene? I transcribed it.

OH CREEPY. Children walking into light. Why are kids so fucking creepy?
oooh. different opening credits. I like!
And again... creepy children. Once more I ask why things with kids are THAT bloody creepy. And parents not noticing something's wrong with kids? Ought to be shot. Pay attention to your kids. Srsly.
BWAH! Rys!! *giggle*
Eve looks fantastic. :^D
Gwen: "you two having shennanigans in the dark?" -- why yes, yes they were.
Bwah. Hand on the shoulder making the poor little Doctor uncomfortable.
Oh that cat who got the cream look on Ianto's face. God I love that look.
Ianto: "He thought we were together. Like... a couple. He said 'you two'. The way he said it *chuckle* 'You two'."
Jack: Well we are does it matter?
Ianto: "Dunno. 'sall a bit new to me. 'sall."
Though, can't tell if that bit of an eyeroll from Jack is because Ianto IS younger and a bit giggly about a relationship with a man. :^/
Okay. Actually having Ianto helping more? Fucking fantastic. And having tupperware.
Jack... you're an ass. And I love you. Pulling away from the poor Doctor who just wants a bit of help.
UNIT!
Oh nice. The overlapping of the scene with UNIT and the Hub. And I LOVE having them really acting like a team. Ianto has a wonderful role now and it's just nice to see.
Awww. Jack getting pissy about talking to a sargent.
Ianto: "she's calling us a couple now."
Jack: "What's your problem?"
Ianto: "Just sayin'."
Jack: "I hate the word couple."
Ianto: *wibble* "Me too."
[okay -- I've seen a few people bitching about Jack as standoffish? After RPing Jack for a while? This is how I see him. NOT liking those conventions and labels. But maybe that's just me.]
Dude... a couple of the screaming kids? Got the whole possessed look DOWN. holy shit creepy.
Asked this the other night. What IS it with layered voice = demonic possession? Who decided that this would be perfect for demonic possession? "We... we... we are... we are... we are coming?" OMG.
AND THE ONE ADULT! oooh. kink in the monkey works.
D'aaaaaw. Pissy!Jack at getting the new girl in the Home Office.
Very, very nice set up with the 456. But you know they'll be defeated easily because 789! ;^)
And there was a guy at the home office who looked like my Eric. Eeeenteresting. *g*
bwah. Ianto muttering about Chinese v Mandrin v English.
Aaaaaaw!! Rhys and Gwen going house shopping! *g*
And Rhys coming up with a good idea!
Gwen: I'm heading into England. Farewell forever.
Rhys: Good luck. Do you have currency?
Gwen: Yes, and I've had my injections.
OMGOMGOMG! JACK WITH HIS NEPHEW!
*SQUEE!* IANTO AND RHIANNON!
Alice: "There were worse fathers" -- oh BURN. But really, Jack wouldn't have been a good dad. I do like seeing this side of him. But how weird... to start looking older than your dad.
Jack: I found a grey hair" --> oh GOD.
Nice try getting a kid Jack. At least you're persistent. I have to give you that. I think...
EEEE. the talk. I had already been spoiled for this but oh well. *g* still makes me gleeful.
Rhiannon: Susan on the corner was in town. And it was their anniversary so they went to that posh French place in town by the memorial. And there was you.
Ianto: ...sooooo...
Rhiannon: There was you. Having dinner. ... with a man.
Ianto: *snort* So? *shrug*
Rhiannon: Havin' dinner with a man. *shits* in a restaurant...?
Ianto: *quickly* You have dinner with Tina!
Rhiannon: Not in town. Susan said he was -gorgeous-. Like a film star. *eyebrow* Like an escort!
Ianto: He's my boss.
Rhiannon: She said it was intimate. I said 'well, he's had girlfriends' and she said 'well, no girl was gettin' her feet 'round that table. No chance'. Have you gone bender?
Ianto: *quickly looks around* Misha's hearing this.
Rhiannon: She's not bothered. Her friend Shan's got two mothers.
Ianto: *loooooong silence. Shifty glance. Shifting in chair*
Rhiannon: Go on. *still silence* You never tell me anything these days. Dad died, that was it. You were off. You couldn't wait. Like I did something wrong. I didn't... did I?
Ianto: *teary expression* It's not that. It's.... my job. It's... difficult. It's.... *deep breath, closes his eyes* .... he is very handsome.
Rhiannon: *Quirked GRIN* -NO!-
Ianto: Now stop it.
Rhiannon: You're kidding me. Really though!? *Ianto with the 'oh god, eyeroll expression'* Christ almighty! *pause* He's nice, though, is he? *Ianto with that small smile* Is he? *pause* I mean... since when?
Ianto: *far-away look* It's weird. It's just different. It's not... men. It's... It's just him. It's only him. And I don't even know what it is, really. So I'm not broadcasting it.
... okay, and such a BEAUTIFUL moment ruined by David. I know it has to be tempered by other family seeing it that way but christ. That even made ME squirm "hey gay boy, she says you're takin' it up the ass". Though, really? best response would have been 'I give, not receive.' but that's just my snark coming out.
Ianto, you have now pulled an Owen. "It's triple deadlocked." And we hear tyres squealing away. It's not your car, Ianto. It's Jack's. :P
I like the division of power here. Gwen is better suited for the interrogation stuff while Ianto and Jack work better for the 'spooky-dos'.
Smelling the truth? God that sounds like something Jack would do. Only in a slightly less creepy way.
Gwen: "The technical name is a gizmo". Torchwood, are we stealing from HP in the 'putter-outer' department?
Creepy flashback is CREEPY. Don't go into the liiiight! Light is bad. Light is always bad.
Clem = FANTASTIC. homg. What an amazing, amazing actor.
heeeeee! Gwen's pregnant! The nose, a better detector than peeing on a stick.
... how did Ianto get back to the Hub? At least he said the car was stolen even if Gwen didn't believe him.
nice car, Jack. XD
... why do we shoot Jack? Poor man. *sigh* My inner Jack is cringing. And betrayed by the cute little Doctor too. This is why we don't flirt with the cute boys that aren't Ianto.
O.O fuck. just keep killing my poor Jack!? And silly woman, it's not the Hub that did that to Jack. It's called Rose Tyler and the heart of the TARDIS.
o.O I should be happy at getting to see stomach of teh John. I, however, am not. Not when they do that to him.
RUN CLEM, RUN!
Note, we do not tell cute Doctor to run. Not when we betray and kill Jack.
D'awww. Hug when they find out Jack's been killed. However, it was the man hug a la American Football where they pat on the backs.
Awww. Jack/Gwen about her being preggers!
... and Jack's pregnant. *snort* And Jack manages to get Gwen out. But Ianto staying behind to help stop the bomb.
Okay, so I had to go BACK to get that last little bit of the scene between Jack & Ianto. Why is it that, in the face of death, their old chemistry is back? It's not like it's out of character the earlier stuff. It's more... awkward. Which I think it would be with this being Ianto's first relationship with a male -- and this is going to turn into meta soon.
Jack: Ianto, you're going to get locked inside!
V.O.: torchwood. lockdown.
Jack: *grabbing Ianto from behind and forceably pulling him away from the computer* Ianto!
Ianto: I need to override the mechanism.
Jack: For god's sake, get out!
Ianto: *struggling* There'll be nothing left of you!
Jack: I can survive anything. *EPIC SNOG, pushing him onto the lift and sending it up* I'll come back. I always do.
Ianto: *crying on the way up, shaking his head*
*KABOOM*
See Lia, staring at her screen and wondering why the credits are rolling.

... It's now Tuesday. Where's my Torchwood Day Two?

God this was SO worth the fourteen-ish months. This just better not be the last 5 eps of Torchwood I ever get.

ETA: First time ever. I posted meta on Janto for Episode 1.

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I got to see it tonight after much insanity (including my burning software giving me a heretofore never seen error message which sent me into panic mode believing I'd never be able to burn another disc again...). It was just what I needed as a break from packing and going-away-for-a-week craziness. Of course now I'm going to be watching the entire thing on the lappy while I'm away in order to keep from being spoiled AND from bouncing off the walls.

Ianto's brother-in-law is a super dick. And not in the good way. As for Jack, I think he was very much in character. He's all about the sexy and "How YOU doin'?" stuff, not so good with actual, yanno, relationships. Whether it's man, woman, robot or small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. And he abhores labels (which is why I don't get on with a lot of TW fen who want to pigeonhole him as a gay, monogamous creature what he ain't.)

I agree with basically everything you said in that post. Ianto/Jack seemed off, but appropriately/intentionally off, not bad acting/bad writing off. And then the kiss at the end - OH MY HEART. I do love them so.

And I actually liked Gwen/Rhys this episode, especially Rhys with his random bit of genius! Usually I watch them and just wonder why they're kidding themselves, but this episode, they totally worked. I wonder how long that will last.

I do hate that I have become so jaded by television that I can't be worried that Jack's actually gone. Non-spoiler spec: he might be out for most of day two, but the cliffhanger for tomorrow, possibly the next day, could be his molecules gluing themselves back together. (Marvel at my scientific explanations!)

Gaaaah why can't I have day two yet? *flails*

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