well all right then.
I'm all caught up on Torchwood.
I had somehow gotten really afraid that I was about to see them actually totally End It All, completely obliterate the status quo, shake the Etch-a-Sketch and start over from totally scorched earth, or just not start over at all (in my head, there is an idiom for this - "flip the table" - but apparently it is an idiom that exists nowhere else) so just seeing there still be a Torchwood Cardiff, however understaffed, felt oddly like a win by the end of the episode.
That said, my reactions go something like:
1. OWENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES
2. TOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES
3. Fuck, I've written 4,000+ words of fic that now needs to be set before this. Fuck, I don't think I can get this to gel with the subsequent events of the fic in my head at all, fuck fuck fuck. AU it is, then? Fuck. Stupid live canon.
4. It's okay to just keep writing pre-Exit Wounds fic for a very long time, right?
5. I mean, except for the post-ep fic with Jack redefining the word clingy wrt Ianto. And Gwen. But mostly Ianto, in the naked way.
6. Okay, so I'm just going to go with the theory that--in light of his apparently having spent 1,874 years underground without a) aging, b) going irretrievably mad, or c) gaining the ounce of perspective required to accept that he was just a kid himself and this is not his fucking fault no matter what his obviously batshit insane baby brother thinks--Jack spent nearly all of that time continuously dead, and even nearer all of that time continuously unconscious. Okay? Let's just... go with that. Right.
7. List for me please things hotter than Ianto shooting Weevils. YOU CAN'T, CAN YOU. NO YOU CAN'T.
8. Oh, John. You're Spike not very far under the surface, aren't you? Admit it. You are. This is me ruffling your hair. You should come back for a threesome sometime, when Ianto's ready to shoot Jack just to get some personal space back, and is ready to welcome the distraction.
9. Maybe Owen will just develop superpowers?
I had somehow gotten really afraid that I was about to see them actually totally End It All, completely obliterate the status quo, shake the Etch-a-Sketch and start over from totally scorched earth, or just not start over at all (in my head, there is an idiom for this - "flip the table" - but apparently it is an idiom that exists nowhere else) so just seeing there still be a Torchwood Cardiff, however understaffed, felt oddly like a win by the end of the episode.
That said, my reactions go something like:
1. OWENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES
2. TOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES
3. Fuck, I've written 4,000+ words of fic that now needs to be set before this. Fuck, I don't think I can get this to gel with the subsequent events of the fic in my head at all, fuck fuck fuck. AU it is, then? Fuck. Stupid live canon.
4. It's okay to just keep writing pre-Exit Wounds fic for a very long time, right?
5. I mean, except for the post-ep fic with Jack redefining the word clingy wrt Ianto. And Gwen. But mostly Ianto, in the naked way.
6. Okay, so I'm just going to go with the theory that--in light of his apparently having spent 1,874 years underground without a) aging, b) going irretrievably mad, or c) gaining the ounce of perspective required to accept that he was just a kid himself and this is not his fucking fault no matter what his obviously batshit insane baby brother thinks--Jack spent nearly all of that time continuously dead, and even nearer all of that time continuously unconscious. Okay? Let's just... go with that. Right.
7. List for me please things hotter than Ianto shooting Weevils. YOU CAN'T, CAN YOU. NO YOU CAN'T.
8. Oh, John. You're Spike not very far under the surface, aren't you? Admit it. You are. This is me ruffling your hair. You should come back for a threesome sometime, when Ianto's ready to shoot Jack just to get some personal space back, and is ready to welcome the distraction.
9. Maybe Owen will just develop superpowers?