Torchwood: My Top Ten Favourite Torchwood Moments...

[fajrdrako]

MY TOP TEN FAVOURITE TORCHWOOD MOMENTS

10. Jack tries to save the hand (Day One)
9. Jack on the rooftops (Everything Changes)
8. Jack tranfers his thoughts to Tosh's mind (Greeks Bearing Gifts)
7. Jack sticks a gun in Ianto's face and threatens him (Cyberwoman)
6. Jack washes Gwen's hand (End of Days)
5. The stopwatch scene (They Keep Killing Suzie)
4. The gun room scene (Ghost Machine)
3. The hug scene when Jack returns from death (End of Days)
2. Jack dances with Jack (Captain Jack Harkness)

and best of all:

1. Jack hears the TARDIS (End of Days)

A few notes on these choices:

1. This was supposed to be roughly in order of preference (and it sort of is) but I think all I have really proved is the impossibility of making such a list. There are too many great moments. And I kept wanting to shoehorn Det. Swanson's scene in there. Think of this as a work in progress.

2. Each scene I listed involves Jack. Okay, okay, no surprise....

3. They're all delightfully sexy (which is directly related to note #1).

4. When I mention the scene where "Jack dnaces with Jack" I'm really, in my mind, including the kiss and the whole extended scene to the end of the episode where Tosh says Jack would be proud of our Jack.

5. Though I think of "End of Days" as a problematic episode - I have a love/hate relationship with it - I note that it is the only episode in which I have listed no less than three favourite moments.

Comments

[cupati.livejournal.com]

LJ cut pleze ;)

I didn't notice jack wash gwen's hand, was probably when I was storming out of the room to tell the rest of my corridor to SHUT UP! ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

LJ cut pleze ;)

Done.

I didn't notice jack wash gwen's hand,

I'm not sure why but that seems to me as sexy as the gun room scene. I love it.

[cupati.livejournal.com]

luv u.

[Sorry, after you agreed with me whole-heartedly on the They Keep Killing Issue, I thought you'd understand....] ;) ;) ;)

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

As intimate, I'd say, for I don't get "sexy" vibes at this point.
It also so ties up with Gwen getting hysterical on Jack, then him subduing her, and then Owen trying to approach and her "Don't touch me!"

*sighs* Another thing to look for on re-watching...

[i-bring-u-fire.livejournal.com]

TARDIS love :) Torchwood can definitely stand on its own but i love dw handpr0n continuity

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oooh yes TARDIS love. The hand, the TARDIS, the Doctor. In Torchwood I love it all the more because it's elusive.

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

8. Jack reads Tosh's mind (Greeks Bearing Gifts)

Did I miss this bit??

[cupati.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say he did. Tosh was definatly trying to read his mind, and he felt rummaging around in his mind, but he didn't read Tosh's.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

No, he couldn't read Tosh's mind and she couldn't read his. But he could make her hear his own directed thoughts. That was the part I liked so much.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I said it badly. I meant that he puts his thoughts into her head.

[misskiwi333.livejournal.com]

Probably not, you just don't remember it as something that went on in the episode because people would overlook it and think tosh did all the mind reading... I think the part fajrdrako is refering to is the bit when mary is in torchwood and is about to kill/take tosh with them and jack projects his thought to her without letting anyone else hear... I think that's right but I may be wrong since thats more projecting his thoughts rather than reading them.... hmmm... *has royally confused herself* lolz.
MK xox

[femme-slash-fan.livejournal.com]

That was so cute... all those moments work.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It was fun to remember them.

[firko.livejournal.com]

2. Each scene I listed involves Jack. Okay, okay, no surprise....
3. They're all delightfully sexy (which is directly related to note #1).

As I see it, those two points go together! Jack=sexy

You've got me thinking now - I might have to go and watch the whole series again to pick!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Jack=sexy

So very true.

I might have to go and watch the whole series again to pick!

Yes - do it! I'd love to see your choices.

[scottis.livejournal.com]

ohh the dancing of jack/jack is heart breaking!

I totaly agree i loved the hand washing it was like Jack was the only person she would let near her!

good job!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

ohh the dancing of jack/jack is heart breaking!

It is - so many emotions, so powerfully put across. I suppose I'm using the dancing as a sort of short-hand to include the kissing, and even the end of the episode where Tosh says that Jack would have been proud of our Jack, and they toast him.

it was like Jack was the only person she would let near her!

Uh-huh. As if she accepted him so completely it was as if he wasn't there - as if it was his place to take care of her, keep her clean, help her when she couldn't help herself in basic ways.

good job!

A labour of love, I assure you.

That's a great icon there.

[redheadedali.livejournal.com]

You inspired me to come up with my own list:

http://redheadedali.livejournal.com/72509.html#cutid1

:)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Good! I'm going to look at it now.

[harveytheayeaye.livejournal.com]

You've inspired me too. (At the moment I have Jack Kissing Ianto, Jack Kissing Jack (that whoooole dance/kiss thing), Jack Kissing Ianto again, Gwen getting shot. I'm really not a Gwen fan... But I do love the gun room scene. mostly for gratuitous Jack.)

I do agree with the TARDIS one.... I actually squeed so badly my mum came through to find out wtf I was doing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Jack Kissing Ianto

First time or second time? I also like the moment - not a favourite, but a good one - in Countrycide in which neither Jack nor Ianto mentions that first kiss. (First that we saw, anyway. I know some fans think they had something going before that.)

Jack Kissing Jack (that whoooole dance/kiss thing),

Yeah. Wonderful, all of it.

Jack Kissing Ianto again

Ah, right, both times are delicious.

I'm really not a Gwen fan... But I do love the gun room scene. mostly for gratuitous Jack.

I am a Gwen fan at least part of the time, but the gun room scene is pure quality Jack.

I actually squeed so badly my mum came through to find out wtf I was doing.

LOL. I hope you reassured her.

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

hough I think of "End of Days" as a problematic episode - I have a love/hate relationship with it - I note that it is the only episode in which I have listed no less than three favourite moments.

That's so often true, isn't it? An episode may not work, but have brilliant moments. Or it may be a brilliant episode, but not have a lot of really stellar individual moments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

An episode may not work, but have brilliant moments.

Yes. It's an episode I find difficult to watch over again in its entirety - well, I've watched the last section a few dozen times I'm sure, but I cringe away from the earlier happenings. And yet there are good lines (like Jack's "Under any other circumstances, an exuberant Roman soldier would be my idea of a perfect morning.") and great moments and in theory I love the notion of Jack going alone to face an evil entity and sacrifice himself for mankind. In theory.... It must be a powerful episode to have me feel so conflicted about it!

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

Excellent list! I agree with all of them because for me, like you, Torchwood is All About Jack.

I might have moved Jack saving the Doctor's hand higher than Jack washing Gwen's hand though. I felt the scene with Gwen was a little off, but maybe because I was still in shock over poor Rhys. It seemed to be an odd gesture to half-heartedly clean her hand when her boyfriend was lying soaked in blood just in front of her. But I guess he felt there was nothing else he could do.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Lovely icon you have there.

Torchwood is All About Jack

Yes - as it should be.

The order I put things in didn't work very smoothly. The hand-saving scene really is one of my favourites. The hand-washing scene... didn't strike me as half-hearted, it struck me as having deep psychological and symbolic implications, all of which I liked. At that point there was nothing anyone could do, so the others were standing around feeling bad, but Jack actually did something that (however subtly) helped Gwen.