Torchwood: Sleeper...

[fajrdrako]

Loved it. Edge of seat. Didn't bite my fingernails, which shows massive self-control. Would have liked more personal focus on Jack, but it was fun to see him in professional mode here.

1. The Torchwood version of a Skrull invasion. I like it. I like it that Beth was sympathetic and heroic.



2. Jack was mostly in soldier mode, and maybe a little under-characterized. Which I didn't mind in the least. He looked good. I couldn't take my eyes of his forearms. Oooh.


3. How long has Jack been back? How long since Captain John Hart left? Jack seems to be reestablished as being in charge, with Gwen as a scond in command - or was I reading that into the show?



4. Nice too to see the team being efficient, honest, and working well together. How I wanted that last series! Now I have it, and it makes a world of difference.



5. Ianto! James Moran gave him such delightful dialogue. Keep it up, Ianto baby, I begin to see what Jack sees in you. ("And I thought the end of the world couldn't get any worse.") All that mischievous playfulness, courage and clever comments.
   
   So I find myself wondering where Ianto's head is now. Is he over the anger and fear we saw last week, or hiding it? Is he giddy because Jack is back? Is he showing off, to get Jack's attention? Is he having sex with Jack again, or hoping to? How long till they tell us? Meanwhile... seems to me the field is open for lots of interpretations.



6. Again, Toshiko was sharp with the technology. Right on top of it. I begin to be convinced she's as good as her advance billing.



7. Gwen. Adorable. My Gwen-love continues.



8. No PC Andy. No Rhys. I missed them. And there was a murder: shouldn't Kathy Swanson have been on the scene? (Sulk.)



9. Scariest moment: when Beth killed her husband. I didn't see that coming.



10. No snogging. Pity. No Captain John: pity about that, too.



11. Loved the scene where we got a good look at Jack's cleaned-up desk. I was afraid at first that the TARDIS-embryo was gone, but no, it's still there - I guess Gwen kept it because she didn't know what it was and it reminded her of Jack. And she knew he'd want it there if and when he did come back. I didn't notice the binoculars or the 3-D glasses, are they still there? I did notice the televisions from "The Idiot's Lantern".



12. I continue to quite like Owen this season. It's somewhat scary.



13. They put Beth in morgue-drawer 007 too, just like Suzie and Jack. Seems the people they put there never stay put. Maybe they should check it out, or rename it "the resurrection chamber". And wasn't Beth frozen in the same freezer/cupboard that Gwen and Owen were in in "Cyberwoman"?



14. I assume there will be a sequel to this story - more alien sleeper agents will turn up? We didn't learn the aliens' name, did we?



15. Have Ianto and Jack had their date yet? I want to see it!



16. Gwen's mother is alive. I'd wondered.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think this is the best episode of the show so far. I absolutely loved it!

Good! My favourite is "Captain Jack Harkness" (because it's romantic) following by "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" because it's snappy. But I thought this one was exceptionally well written.

2. Jack scared me a little during Beth's interview. But he was also incredibly sexy.

Yes, and yes.

I've never been much of an Ianto fan (sorry!)

Oh, no need to apologize to me! I'm not really an Ianto girl. Not that I don't love the whole team, each of them, but Ianto is usually so restrained I never had a strong sense of his character, and he always seems very young and unformed... Well, much less here. Yes, he was funny. I think I understood him even less than usual, but enjoyed him more than ever.

I think he might be using humour and sarcasm as a bit of a defense mechanism

Yes, I think so. And maybe to boost morale.

because he's still uncertain of where he stands with Jack and he's trying hard not to show it

I loved it when Ianto and Jack showed a sense of partnerwhip - consulting each other.

I adore Tosh, and I love the fact that she's competent and smart.

Yes.

(I still want more scenes of Tosh and Jack!).

Definitely! Especially since I've been writing Jack/Tosh stuff lately.

I was wondering about that; on the surface there was nothing to suggest there was any alien involvement, so why wasn't Homicide (or whatever it's called in Britian) there?

I think the police called Jack in because the murder was so strange - the men being stabbed and thrown out of the window. Once Jack was there, he took the case away from the regular cops because he realized it was an alien invasion methodology.

[magika83.livejournal.com]

Especially since I've been writing Jack/Tosh stuff lately.

Yay! There's not nearly enough of that going around.

You know what the funniest part of this episode was? Owen watering the plants. ;-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You know what the funniest part of this episode was? Owen watering the plants. ;-)

It was - ! That was delightful. Owen as a gardner - who'd have guessed!