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....] ;) ;) ;)

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

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

[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...

[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.

[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

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

I remember that part but that was Jack letting Tosh read his mind, not him readng hers.

[misskiwi333.livejournal.com]

Yeah... so.... did he read her mind...? *iz confuzzled* or was that just a misunderstanding of fajrdrako's choice of words? ho hum... 'tis a mysteryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! lolz... sorry, i tend to be rather hyper when I have a big doseof torchwood when I just woke up...lol
MK xox

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Okay, I mis-spoke, I meant he was letting her hear what he was thinking... not sure how to phrase that. I will rephrase it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was what I meant - though I saw it as less passive than just letting her read his mind, which she couldn't do - he was actively speaking to her on a telepathic level. And that was what was so cool about it.

[misskiwi333.livejournal.com]

*g* *iz no longer confused* meh, don't worry about it... lol. Everybody makes mistakes... like gwen on her first day *g*! bless her, she's so cute...
MK xox

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

jack projects his thought to her without letting anyone else hear...

Yes, that's exactly what he did, thank you for saying it better than I could. I liked that immensely.

[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]

Oh, I do understand! I just forgot. So sorry.

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

I thought it he just realised she was still wearing the pendant. I thought it was a nice touch too, but wished they could've made more of it as what he said wasn't actually that useful anyway!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think so, especially in that episode. And she's trying so hard to get things right.

[misskiwi333.livejournal.com]

yeah, when she chucked that chisel at the spaceship thing and then was like... oh bollox. *dons gasmask* aww I felt so bad for her...
Anyway, yours wasn't a mistake more of a misunderstanding *g*
MK xox

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

As intimate, I'd say, for I don't get "sexy" vibes at this point.

It's say that for me it's a case where tenderness, intimacy and even hurt/comfort translate as sexy. I don't think Gwen finds it sexy at that moment but she's... distracted.

It also so ties up with Gwen getting hysterical on Jack

Yes, the whole scene is a quick-flip series of hysterical anger alternating with gentle caring. I also love the way Jack holds Gwen when she stops fighting.

If I go on like this I'll talk myself into loving that whole sequence but I hate it for various reasons, including its implications for Rhys. My feelings are so split on this one. But I love the hand-washing.

[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.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

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

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think I would have thrown a chisel at Owen too, he was being obnoxious!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I thought it he just realised she was still wearing the pendant.

It was more than that, because the initiative of the communication was his, not hers - and she couldn't hear any of his other thoughts, just what he wanted her to hear.

[misskiwi333.livejournal.com]

I know ae!! "sweetcheeks" "Freckles" "Newbie" *thwack* I reckon.
MK xox