fajrdrako | Torchwood: Out of Time... (Reply)

Torchwood is increasingly winning my respect. I've loved it from the beginning, but it's becoming more and more worthy of my affections. The writing is becoming less mixed; more smooth, more unpredictable, more convincing, more gripping. The story was downright smooth, and so very character-oriented. By Catherine Tregenna. Hmm. Nice to see women writing for television. She has another episode coming up, too. Good sign.

A few comments, as always:

Jack made me cry. Jack has such a heart in him - such a loving person, but trapped and isolated. I loved it that he was willing to tell John Ellis that he was from the future, and also displaced in time. I loved it that he helped John to die, after struggling to find alternatives for him.

Owen falls in love. I was totally convinced - realized he was in love before he he said it - that's good acting on Burn Gorman's part. And this highlighted some of his psychological problems. Wonderful hot sex scenes too, 'wonderful' because (as with other Torchwood sex scenes) it seemed realistic to me - not prettied up like most sex in TV and movies to be carefully choreographic to appeal to the audience. Not that Diane wasn't beautiful and interesting - I'd probably have fallen for her too. Guess I have a thing for the 1930s female aviator mystique. I wondered if she was anachronistic, and decided that no, she was not: she was one of those people who would not fully belong in any time, her own or any other. So she makes her own way, wherever she finds herself.

Still, why is it that Owen gets all the sex scenes and not Jack? Jack's the main appeal here. Owen remains minimally attractive to me.

It confirmed what I suspected, that Owen isn't in love with Gwen. And next week Gwen tells Rhys about her affair with Owen... about time, too. I look forward to that.

Oh dear. Could it be that I am starting to actually like Owen?

Loved the scene of poor Gwen trying to explain modern sexual mores to Emma. Good luck to her! I think it ended up as a 'do what I say, not as I do'. I loved the way she was protective of Emma. And I loved it that Rhys caught Gwen out on her lying, and was angry about it. About time! I was also thrilled that we got to see Rhys again. It feels like a long time.

The three aviators from 1953 showed less sense of surprise, curiosity and wonder on seeing the Torchwood Hub than the 2007 folk like Gwen and Eugene did. I suppose they were so surrounded by new things that it was at that point all a blur to them.