Torchwood and Life...

[fajrdrako]

At first I thought I was getting echoes of Torchwood in Life just because I was being delusionally obsessive. This isn't a problem, you understand - being obsessively deluded where Captain Jack Harkness is concerned is sheer pleasure.

The first time I saw Crews standing on a roof I thought Torchwood, and then dismissed it as a silly thought - it was just a hero on a roof, and he had a reason for being on a roof. Anybody on a roof these days will make me think of Captain Jack Harkness, with or without a greatcoat.¹ And when Charlie Crews was standing on a rooftop with Ted, and Ted made a Batman reference, I thought of the Batman references made in connection with Torchwood - but of course any hero lurking on a rooftop will make a person think of Batman. That's what Batman is all about.

Then Charlie Crews stands on a rooftop with a guy named Captain Jack Reese.

When they found the Zen master's dessicated body in the construction site, I thought of the body found in the construction site at the beginning of Torchwood's "Greeks Bearing Gifts" and laughed at myself.

Then I realized they were playing as background music the same song used in Torchwood's episode "Day One".

They are messing with my head.

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¹ Though not invariably. The rooftop in New York in Heroes where Claude kept his pigeons and Charles had his terrace does not remind me of Torchwood in the least.