Torchwood: A lovely evening with Beulah...

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A while back, Beulah was telling me that she was watching Torchwood with our friend Lionel. Lionel has never struck me as being gay-friendly in any way, and I thought Beulah would enjoy the episode "Captain Jack Harkness" more if she saw it with me first. So I explained this to her, and explained why, and invited her over to see it. She accepted the invitation with alacrity.

And she loved it. When Jack and Jack started dancing, she said, "In 1941 - that's so brave - it shows how much they care about each other." When the rift opened, she said, "Jack, move, hurry up, the Rift's going to close!"

Interestingly, the place where her reaction most surprised me, was when Owen and Ianto were fighting. She asked me which was the bad guy, and which was the good guy. I made a non-commital answer. "I don't trust the one with the gun," she said. "Not after his cyber-girlfriend." I know that by the time I first saw "Captain Jack Harkness" I trusted Ianto completely and didn't trust Owen an inch - but she hasn't seen all the episodes in between "Cyberwoman" and "Captain Jack Harkness" yet, so that might explain it.

She heartily approved of our Captain Jack's advice carpe diem advice to the other Jack about 'making the most of today because it might be all you ever get'.

Then we watched The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, the second one of the DVD collection. We'd already watched the first one, "Death at the Opera" a while back, and were delighted to see it had David Tennant in it as Max Valentine. Since I have a thing for Mrs. Bradley's chauffeur, George Moody (played by Neil Dudgeon), I still want to write a story slashing George and the elegant Valentine.

The second episode is "The Rising of the Moon", which is, if anything, a little campier and cuter. It's about a murder in an English village in the 1920s, of a Traveller in a knife-throwing act. I had the murderer pegged almost as soon as the character appeared, but that was okay - this kind of mystery is more for the atmosphere and comedy than the puzzle. As before, I adored George. It was fun to see Peter Davison as Inspector Christmas again, too.

That reminded me that I hadn't shown Beulah "Time Crash", so I did.

All in all, a lovely, relaxing evening of TV and conversation, just what I needed. Even the budgies enjoyed themselves - until they were banished to the bedroom for singing too loudly and making it difficult to hear Torchwood.