fajrdrako | Torchwood: They Keep Killing... (Reply)

I woke up early this morning and watched Torchwood: They Keep Killing... before breakfast. My internal sqeeing was set to maximum. I think I was grinning through the whole thing. Jack's braces. Gwen's big eyes. Lots of the Torchwood Hub. And witty dialogue.

1. Canonical slash between Jack and Ianto - with a stopwatch. Joy! So when will we see them kiss again? Why are the producers being so discreet? At least we got a brief postmortum kiss between Suzie and Gwen, but I'd like to see a real live conscious-and-alive kiss between Jack and Ianto. I loved the cute look Ianto gave him. And he made Jack smile. Way to go, Ianto. (Now go make him smile again.)

2. Gwen is just so sweet. How can she be an ex-cop and still be so innocent?

3. Suzie had a thing for Gwen. Awww. I'd like to love Suzie (because I really like her looks and style) but it just isn't possible. What really made me give up on her was her line that she didn't know anything about Max because she just wanted to talk about herself. I loved it that Gwen thought Suzie wanted to see her dying father out of love, and it was actually hatred. Gwen is gullible. Nicely empathic, but gullible - measures others by herself.

4. Jack's story about his boyfriends, the twin acrobats - ! C'mon, Jack, you're making that one up on the fly .... a cute fantasy to raise an eyebrow or a smile.

5. No Rhys again, but at least he was mentioned.

6. The Gwen/Owen affair took a back seat to other things, though it was mentioned. Does this imply it's preoccupying them less? Of course, we weren't getting Gwen's or Owen's interior thoughts in this one. It was nice to see Owen tending to Gwen when she was dying (or dead) on the dock. It was also interesting to learn that Suzie was Owen's lover.

7. I loved the way Jack had no sympathy for Suzie. I'd have had sympathy for her, myself - though not as much as Gwen, or at least, I wouldn't have taken her off the premises! But Jack sees through deceptions. It was also great seeing Ianto take some of the psychological pressure off him at the end, helping with the body.

8. Loved Tosh's line about her job at Torchwood having less honour because of what Suzie did.

9. A religious group? What was Suzie thinking of? I guess it was just a good place to find people whose minds she could mess with. So... retcon didn't drive anyone mad, it was just that Suzie programmed Max's brain to go psycho in just the way she wanted. Ruthless.

10. No pterodactyl this week either.

11. Good scene where the local cops were laughing at Captain Jack for being trapped in Torchwood. I liked it that it was Tosh who came up with the solution to the code, to use the ISBN. Why Emily Dickinson? I've never liked her poetry. To my ears it sounded delightfully apropos to Suzie's usage.

12. Loved Ianto's line about gloves coming in pairs.