fajrdrako | Torchwood: Countrycide... (Reply)

Watched Torchwood episode 6, "Countrycide", this evening. Hmm. Lots of thoughts, can I adequately express them? Probably not.

I liked it; a lot. I liked the creepy mood of suspense, the villains who turned out to be neither aliens nor animals, the sense of fear permeating the episode. I felt we got to know all the characters much better, with the possible exception of Jack.

Absolutely loved it when Jack drove in at the end like the cavalry, guns blazing. Loved it.

I usually hate medical-type scenes, but the scene of Owen taking care of Gwen when she was shot was both sexy and sweet.

So: Gwen and Owen. Interesting. There will be lots of repercussions, I'm sure. This is most cool. I still think Gwen/Jack is more interesting than Gwen/Owen but this is still fun to see. I hope the sex was as good as he promised. Will she tell Rhys? And indeed, why did she go for Owen rather than Jack, if she wanted sex with someone who knew and understood the experiences they had just undergone? Because Owen is more accessible, more easy? (Woo, has Jack changed, if that's the case!) Because she wanted Owen? Because he needed her, too? Because Jack frightens her, a little?

I am somewhat bemused that our famously omnisexual Captain Jack seems to be the one who, for all we have seen, is living celibate. Of course this fits into my happy fantasy of his love for the Doctor, and his current alienation.

I liked Ianto more than I have yet. Not that I ever disliked him, but he seemed so intoverted in past episodes, revealing so little of himself, even when hysterical about Lisa. I began to feel both that he was coming to trust the others, and that we were seeing the real Ianto.

Lovely Welsh countryside. It was fun seeing our urban heroes in a non-urban setting.

The villains were fun. I liked Gwen's desire to know why, and the villain's answer. In fact, the whole episode was nicely creepy.

When Gwen had the chance to shoot the villain, why didn't she do it? Was it fear that Owen would be shot? Why did she wait?

Loved the questions about kissing. Did no one ask Gwen? And what alien life form did Jack last kiss? I'm hopeless: I couldn't help thinking of the nice kiss we saw in The Parting of the Ways - that was a nice kiss with an alien life form. Of course, Jack kissed the sex alien and Ianto - was he just being discreet, or does a non-sexual kiss not count? Which brings me back to my puzzlement about Jack's personal life. He seems to be spending his nights working at Torchwood, not living the high life at Cardiff's sex clubs.