Torchwood: The Dead Line...

[fajrdrako]

Listened to Torchwood: the Dead Line. I listened while walking downtown to meet a friend for lunch; walked through the Rideau Centre with a goofy schmoopy smile on my face, so thoroughly enjoying all the mushy parts. "A blip in time." Awww. Love those guys.

Things I loved:

1. You can guess, can't you? All the Ianto/Jack stuff. The fact that Ianto elected to sit at Jack's bedside rather than dash all over the city. The fact that Ianto decided to talk about his feelings and his fears. I could analyze his comments at length, but it answered a lot of slash-writing questions I'd had - and not necessarily in the way I'd expected or interpreted. Now we know that Jack does sleep, and shares a bed with Ianto - implied, I think, on a regular basis. Canonical slash. I love it. And, of course, the final line from Jack.... Can anyone doubt the Ianto love now?
   
   This is precisely the sort of thing I've wanted for a long time.
   
   
2. Loved it also that we meet Stella Courtney, a Torchwood associate and girlfriend of Jack from the seventies - who is neither traumatized or villainous, but has had a good and successful life. Good memories for both of them. I love it that he still flirts with her, and she says he's "The same as ever, impossible but charming." And that she knows he's immortal. I wonder how many people knew that particular secret?
   
   
3. Ianto: "I suspect it's something the doctors tell us to do, rather than something that will help you... to feel there's still some sort of purpose in our life." Such a skeptic, that boy.
   
   
4. "Woken up in the middle of the night and watched you... Tried to imagine what a man like you could possibly dream about.... The people you've loved. I wondered if you were dreaming about me. I hoped you were dreaming about me." But when he says - "You've already lived a thousand lifetimes" - estimating the number of times Jack has been killed, I would guess, because the number of years he has lived don't add up to a thousand lifetimes - which would, I suppose, be about 80,000 years.
   
   
5. Loved the plot, too. Nice science fiction.
   
   
6. Loved the use of Rhys, especially his glee at being on the case. And his comment that Jack was Captain Scarlet. And... just about every Rhys line made me smile. ("You mean you can call me, but I can't call you?") When he first appeared, I thought he was going to find Ruth in a trance at her desk, having answered his phone.
   
   
7. Phil Ford, thank you. And Kate McAll... I think it's a really good thing to have a female producer.