Teeny tiny reaction type post re: this week's episode.
1-) I have so much freaking love for Jack on Doctor Who. He isn't a different character, but he's a brighter and (for me) better version of the same one. This is probably why I ship him with the Doctor. Because to me Jack becomes a better man around the Doctor.
2-)
Fan_eunice said, of Jack/Doctor, that since Nine she's had this feeling of 'Not yet. Someday, but not yet.'. This sums up my feelings about the ship almost exactly. It's still my ship of preference in Who-verse, but with Ten I get the feeling that there's waiting. Waiting on the Doctor to heal, waiting on the Doctor to become someone else, waiting on one or both of them to be ready again. It's not even tension really. It's just a sense of. Waiting.
3-) If Jack dies forever, I will choke-a-bitch. Paranoid what?
ETA:
4-) I love, and I do mean love, what they did with Gwen and Ianto in this episode. My fear? Totally groundless.
5-) I loved every single second Jack was on screen. I could elaborate on all of them but I won't. I will tell you my favorite. I love that Jack, end of the world and scared shitless of Daleks, Dalek's descending on Torchwood, having said 'we're dead', leaves Ianto and Gwen and he leaves them with GLEE to go to the Doctor. Because that? That's my boy - selfish, clueless asshole and hero, all in one.
(Seriously though. Every *second* of him in this episode. But you knew that.
My glee, she is back.