Captain Jack Harkness, Torchwood, and my Inner Child
*Note: Thank you purplerhino for everything you sent me. I'll likely repeat that in this post, but I'm getting it said here first.
I wondered when I added Captain Jack Harkness to my One-Night Stands list if he'd make his way onto my Forever Partners list when I finally saw Torchwood. Well, I've now, thank you purplerhino, seen the first season of Torchwood and I have to say it didn't even take Jack very long to make the transition. He cemented his place on my Forever Partners list in the 5th episode, "Small Worlds," and worked his way up the list from 10th place with a couple of other episodes. Jack moved from 10th to 9th with "Captain Jack Harkness" and 9th to 8th with "End of Days". He's the first new arrival on my Forever Partners in 3 years. I know that isn't 5 or 10, but it is years plural. It feels good to bring him in. Course it makes me think I should see if I can figure out where the Doctor fits on my Purely Platonics. There hasn't been a Doctor yet, not even Nine, that really inspires lust in me. The Doctor is however definitely a character I love very much.
A very short collection, I don't think it's really long enough to qualify as a whole "Opinion Quick Guide," of my feelings about Torchwood...
My Favorite characters are:
Captain Jack Harkness, d'uh.
Owen Harper, I know he can be a total wanker. I fully believe Ianto was right shooting him, and Jack was right throwing him out. All that just means that if I hadn't already been crying for a while watching "End of Days" I'd have burst into tears for sure when Jack told Owen he forgave him. Yeah, definitely my second favorite character next to Captain Jack Harkness.
Least favorite characters are:
Ianto Jones, I swear if I'd been in Jack's shoes in "Cyberwoman" that man wouldn't have made it out of the episode alive. When Gwen asked Jack what he was doing, and he responded with, "Resisting the urge to shoot," I'd have been distracted enough by the question to pull the trigger. Carrying Owen and concentrating really hard, the distraction would've been too much.
Toshiko Sato, it isn't that I dislike her. I don't. Ianto is the only one who really rubs me the wrong way. It's just that she never engages me, or never on her own. All the times I think of her fondly are ones where she's interacting with Jack, and I know it's Jack I love.
Favorite episodes:
"Small Worlds," "Captain Jack Harkness," and "End of Days," d'uh, again.
Least favorite episodes:
"Countrycide," without doubt my least favorite episode of the entire first season. The whole episode gives me a "The stupid makes my head hurt" headache. By the time Jack comes riding to the rescue at the end I'm prepared to write the whole bloody team off as too stupid to live.
"Cyberwoman," it isn't an awful episode. There's some Jack-ness in it I really like, but there is so much of Ianto grating on my nerves in it that it manages to detract even from my enjoyment of the Jack-ness. Definitely not one of my favorite episodes.
"Greeks Bearing Gifts," I repeat I don't dislike Tosh, but she doesn't grab me. This episode is Tosh-centric and highlights for me how I'm not digging her.
What else... the weevils amuse me highly, so much so that when the weevil Jack was tussling with at the beginning of "Combat" was taken I was muttering, "Those bastards stole Jack's weevil!" Suzie's interesting, and I'm much amused by Ianto's having harshed Jack's mellow at the end of "They Keep Killing Suzie" by pointing out gloves come in pairs. Yes, I don't see Ianto as completely useless, just annoying a lot of the time. I thought "Ghost Machine," "Random Shoes" and "Out of Time" where cool episodes, they just aren't in my Top Three. Okay, I think that's it for initial reactions to the first season of Torchwood.
purplerhino, along with sending me the first season of Torchwood, thank you purplerhino, sent me some other John Barrowman bits and pieces. Thank you purplerhino. The "JB Sings Broadway" bits were nice, but it's the other piece that illustrates once more how little my "Inner Child" is. I think Everett has called my Inner Child three and half years old. I'm not sure exactly what the target age range was for the bedtime story John read, but it has to have been for little kids and I LOVED that bit. It made my Inner Child very happy. Thank you purplerhino for all of it.
I wondered when I added Captain Jack Harkness to my One-Night Stands list if he'd make his way onto my Forever Partners list when I finally saw Torchwood. Well, I've now, thank you purplerhino, seen the first season of Torchwood and I have to say it didn't even take Jack very long to make the transition. He cemented his place on my Forever Partners list in the 5th episode, "Small Worlds," and worked his way up the list from 10th place with a couple of other episodes. Jack moved from 10th to 9th with "Captain Jack Harkness" and 9th to 8th with "End of Days". He's the first new arrival on my Forever Partners in 3 years. I know that isn't 5 or 10, but it is years plural. It feels good to bring him in. Course it makes me think I should see if I can figure out where the Doctor fits on my Purely Platonics. There hasn't been a Doctor yet, not even Nine, that really inspires lust in me. The Doctor is however definitely a character I love very much.
A very short collection, I don't think it's really long enough to qualify as a whole "Opinion Quick Guide," of my feelings about Torchwood...
My Favorite characters are:
Captain Jack Harkness, d'uh.
Owen Harper, I know he can be a total wanker. I fully believe Ianto was right shooting him, and Jack was right throwing him out. All that just means that if I hadn't already been crying for a while watching "End of Days" I'd have burst into tears for sure when Jack told Owen he forgave him. Yeah, definitely my second favorite character next to Captain Jack Harkness.
Least favorite characters are:
Ianto Jones, I swear if I'd been in Jack's shoes in "Cyberwoman" that man wouldn't have made it out of the episode alive. When Gwen asked Jack what he was doing, and he responded with, "Resisting the urge to shoot," I'd have been distracted enough by the question to pull the trigger. Carrying Owen and concentrating really hard, the distraction would've been too much.
Toshiko Sato, it isn't that I dislike her. I don't. Ianto is the only one who really rubs me the wrong way. It's just that she never engages me, or never on her own. All the times I think of her fondly are ones where she's interacting with Jack, and I know it's Jack I love.
Favorite episodes:
"Small Worlds," "Captain Jack Harkness," and "End of Days," d'uh, again.
Least favorite episodes:
"Countrycide," without doubt my least favorite episode of the entire first season. The whole episode gives me a "The stupid makes my head hurt" headache. By the time Jack comes riding to the rescue at the end I'm prepared to write the whole bloody team off as too stupid to live.
"Cyberwoman," it isn't an awful episode. There's some Jack-ness in it I really like, but there is so much of Ianto grating on my nerves in it that it manages to detract even from my enjoyment of the Jack-ness. Definitely not one of my favorite episodes.
"Greeks Bearing Gifts," I repeat I don't dislike Tosh, but she doesn't grab me. This episode is Tosh-centric and highlights for me how I'm not digging her.
What else... the weevils amuse me highly, so much so that when the weevil Jack was tussling with at the beginning of "Combat" was taken I was muttering, "Those bastards stole Jack's weevil!" Suzie's interesting, and I'm much amused by Ianto's having harshed Jack's mellow at the end of "They Keep Killing Suzie" by pointing out gloves come in pairs. Yes, I don't see Ianto as completely useless, just annoying a lot of the time. I thought "Ghost Machine," "Random Shoes" and "Out of Time" where cool episodes, they just aren't in my Top Three. Okay, I think that's it for initial reactions to the first season of Torchwood.
purplerhino, along with sending me the first season of Torchwood, thank you purplerhino, sent me some other John Barrowman bits and pieces. Thank you purplerhino. The "JB Sings Broadway" bits were nice, but it's the other piece that illustrates once more how little my "Inner Child" is. I think Everett has called my Inner Child three and half years old. I'm not sure exactly what the target age range was for the bedtime story John read, but it has to have been for little kids and I LOVED that bit. It made my Inner Child very happy. Thank you purplerhino for all of it.