silent seasons inched me unto this death.
I am a lying liar who lies.
This was more of a setup episode, but the things they are setting up are exactly the kinds of things I care about. Let's get to it:
Why are they performing an autopsy on Owen? They know how he died -- HE DIED OF A GUN SHOT WOUND. Is it just standard protocol for Torchwood team members?
Creepy psychic girl is creepy.
CPG: If I told you not to use it, would you listen?
Jack: Shouldn't you know the answer to that?
Bweeeeee. Also, of course he wouldn't listen. He doesn't listen to ANYONE.
But, wait. Torchwood, are you telling me that Jack could have gone to some creepy psychic girl and found out where the other Risen Mitten was and then had, I don't know, GOTTEN RID OF IT SO THAT IT WOULDN'T FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS at any point that Jack wanted, and he just...didn't? Hmmmm. I'm willing to buy that Jack is thinking ahead to a time, when, inevitably, one of his team members will die and he'll need the thing, but that brings up the question of: why not retrieve it, keep it in the safe? Unless we're meant to think that he doesn't trust the other members with it, after Suzie. Okay, that could make sense. Where-ever it is, it's hidden. He has the means to retrieve it if he has to. Basically, Jack has all the power here. OTOH, the CPG is exacting some kind of favor in return for letting him know where the glove is hidden. This is interesting. The favor could be very, very big. There's always a price, Jack. Always. I very much like how there are both short term consequences (to Owen, to other people outside of the team) and the promise of long term consequences that could be even more devastating.
God is dead, Jasmine is the way!
It's fun to watch Barrowman walk gingerly around sleeping Weevils and grimace at noises and generally ham it up. His, "Weevils. Why does it always have to be Weevils," face. Hahahahahaha. He was born to play scenes like this. The Weevils feel the energy of the glove, I take it, and that's why they're all sleeping in the church. I hadn't realized, before catching up on the Captain's Blogs, how many Weevils they capture on a weekly basis. There are a *lot* of Weevils running around Cardiff. And this is, evidently, where they all camp out when they aren't eating people.
NICE SFX with the flashlight. I liked that a lot.
Jack is so Mr. Unilateral Decision Maker. "This is not up for discussion." Everyone thinks using the glove is a bad idea. Gwen's the only one who says anything though, and thank god she tries. Ianto says NOTHING. He marks the time on his stopwatch. So, I have to talk about this for a minute.
I'm delighted when Ianto holds up Jack's coat open for him. I'm thrilled when Jack gives Ianto an order to go after the baddies and make sure they're dealt with. But when Jack is about to do something, oh, I don't know -- INSANE, then I need Ianto to say something. Anything. I don't want Ianto to put a bullet through Jack's head (not onscreen, anyways) but he *has* to assert himself and not just go along with whatever Jack has decided they are going to do now. Seriously, all I need for him to say is, "Maybe we should think about this." Jack can shoot him down! He can say, "Just do as you're told!" That would be totally fine! Agh. Don't get me wrong, I like that Ianto is so loyal. But blind loyalty isn't love. And blind loyalty is the kind of thing that makes you think putting your Cyberzed girlfriend in the basement of your workplace where she could kill your co-workers, who are also ostensibly your friends, get out and DESTROY THE WORLD, seem like a good idea. Maybe Ianto will never learn to love smartly, and that is both his great gift and his great failing. If this ends up having bad personal consequences for him (vs. the general bad consequences of 12 dead people and whatever it is that they've done to Owen), then I will retract my frustration. Until then, it seems, basically, like being a devoted employee/sex partner/whatever it is that they are, means never saying "no" to Jack even when he should and this makes me grit my teeth.
I comfort myself with thoughts that Ianto may do Jack's every bidding at work, but it's Jack who spends the small hours of the night ON HIS KNEES, worshipping every inch of Ianto's cock with his mouth, his hands tied behind his back, Ianto murmuring, "That's it, just the way I like it," while he fucks Jack's face.
Hmph.
On the other hand, Jack is covered in Owen's blood. This makes me sad.
And, heeeeee, Ianto whispering the code to the alien morgue to himself so that he'll be able to remember it. That makes me happy.
This scene, though. Yeurgh. It was so gross. Not in a physical sense, just. Jack Harkness, man. He is UNHINGED. He's just going to do whatever he wants, damn the consequences. I don't disapprove of Jack being selfish and wrong and I'm glad for opportunities that canonically prove that he's selfish and wrong at times. That's fine. I just feel so bad for Owen here. This really isn't fair at all. You have something to say to the dead? THAT IS WHAT FUNERALS ARE FOR.
But.
Jack's grief is palpable here. God, he loves his team so much. He's really not thinking straight at this point. He's doing that thing you do where you just act because you have to do something and it doesn't matter what you're doing as long as you're doing it. "Who will save me?" Owen asks in Adam and Jack promises, "I will." I get it. I just don't like it. (Which is to say, I LOVE IT. Because, yes, this will end in tears.)
Jack clutching Owen's hand. *sniffle*.
I also loved Gwen's reaction to the glove, the way she looks at it with blatant fear, the way she flinches away from it at several points. The other one almost killed her; she knows how dangerous it is in a way that's much more personal than it could ever be for anyone else (except, now, Owen). That glove is bad news. I say again, this will end in tears. And she calls Rhys when she's feel overwhelmed. It's SO GOOD that she can do that now. She doesn't even have to go into specifics. Her, "Tough day," is no more detailed than what she might have said before he knew about Torchwood, but now he knows about Torchwood. He understands.
The times that Owen got pulled into the darkness were so freaking cool. That's low level special effects put to very good use. Good thinking on that one, too, SFX team.
This is what love looks like, people. I can not even.
Did JB appear more haggard this episode? Maybe they shellacked less makeup on him to indicate his grief. Whatever it is, it is very much working for me in my woman parts. Can he look this broken all the time? YOW. His hair, however, is still fucking ricockulous.
Okay, this, this is much, much better: Martha facing down Jack, Jack unremitting in his need for secrecy. SHE SAVED THE WORLD, saved him, saved the Doctor and he still isn't going to tell her, or UNIT, everything he knows. She doesn't back off for an instant. Great characterization all around. But what I really, really love is Ianto in this scene. He's *itching* to say something. While Martha yells, his FINGERS CURL AGAINST THE HEM OF HIS SUIT JACKET. Now, *what* he wants to say is anybody's guess. He could want to side with Jack, express his faith and loyalty ("Jack will take care of it; he takes care of all of us"), he could want to side with Martha, ("Jack, look at what using the glove has done, Martha is right, LISTEN TO HER"). Whatever it is, he's *just* managing to keep it back. He even opens his mouth and then closes it again a couple of times. YES. I love it when Ianto orders Jack around (I'll stay here, you check out the roof. You're good on roofs) and when he makes fun of Jack (Terrifying) and when he takes the initiative (THE KISS OMG), but barring time and general episodic flow, I am more than happy to see Ianto conflicted and unable to say what he wants to say.
And, oh, the coat thing, knowing ahead of time that Jack's going to want to go after Owen. He's right there, providing what's needed, when it's needed. Which again, is why it's so important that he show some measure of dissent if he feels it. It's fine if he *doesn't* feel it, that he thinks that whatever Jack does, Jack does because he needs to. Or if Ianto himself is unhinged and selfish, wanting Owen back just as much. JUST SHOW IT TO ME. Sometimes there is such as thing as being TOO SUBTLE.
It may be the Jossverse fan in me, but it seems like they're dropping some heavy hints regarding UNIT and Torchwood 1 -- basically, the real Powers behind Torchwood 3 and how Jack doesn't trust them. I feel like they're setting up a Torchwood 3 vs. the PTB dynamic here. Martha's whole assertion that it might have been the Doctor who paved the road to her very smooth promotion upstairs strikes me as naive. If, suddenly, the CIA came along and wanted to recruit me and told me that "someone" recommended me highly, big giant warning flares would go off. Martha's being used for something, something that is NO GOOD.
Man, that scene with Jack and Owen at the club. Owen is bitter and furious and it's all centered around Jack. The way Jack stares him down while Owen pushes him. OWEN PUSHES HIM UP AGAINST A WALL. asfhjkl. "That's not why I brought you back." And then, outside, with the police, Jack's, "BE CAREFUL WITH HIM." Look at the pretties!
I-is there Owen/Jack fic out there? I mean, is there GOOD Owen/Jack fic out there? There must be.
And then the cell! Um, let us all just ignore all the bodily functions stuff. They're good points and not that often pursued in shows that feature the undead. But with good reason, I think. May I never, ever hear a conversation in which Angel explains how his bladder works. I did like that Owen's perspective on life is very different now, even with regard to the mundane. Maybe even especially with regard to the human body, towards which he would have cultivated a clinical detachment. Now everything, the intricacies of the digestive system, the gag reflex, farts, even, are romanticized in his mind. It was a really great character moment. It was just really, really groddy.
Owen: You've got forever. I could have seconds. Hardly seems fair.
Jack: It isn't. But, then, forever's over-rated.
Owen: Not from where I'm sitting..
Perfect, perfect, perfect.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww. Man, Barrowman is really a big guy. Or Gorman is a really wee one. Either way, this makes me do seal flaps.
AWWWWWWWWW. Fingers! In the hair! Caressing! Sad Owen is sad. :( :( :(
I really love them together like this.
Tosh: I wanted to know why Owen left. Well, actually, more if he talked to anyone about what I said.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. I, uh, I don't really talk about Tosh very much but that's because she's a socially maladjusted, 32 year old Asian geek that works for a covert government organization at a job that's both the most exciting thing she's ever done and one that's eating her soul. If I were to write a Mary Sue character of me into Torchwood, SHE WOULD BE IT. It's kind of awkward. Sometimes hilariously so. I tried to read smut with her and Jack and Ianto the other day and I was SO UNCOMFORTABLE, I couldn't finish it. Tosh is awesome. She isn't, obviously, actually me. But it's a little too close to home sometimes. I WAY overidentify with her. So that's why, in case you were wondering. Anyways, she and Owen are really growing on me, esp. now that he can't have sex. The They Can't Have Sex trope gets me every time. Gimme gimme gimme. I also really like it that he says, "That's not love, that's grief," to her, because he's right. Tosh trails after him, she crushes on him, but not saying how you feel to someone until they're dying is not love. She doesn't know what she feels, just that she feels something for him that she'd like to pursue. Maybe now they'll actually get to know each other and then she can figure out who he really is or what it really is that makes him tick. THEN she can say she loves him and it will mean something.
Owen calls himself the King of Weevils, but this is a misnomer. He's the Conduit of Death and Weevils either worship or are attracted to Death and to the instrument that brings Death forth, makes Death manifest. This...doesn't bode well for the Weevils.
[eta: oh! i forgot! chibnall is such a fan of everyone/everyone, isn't he? there's this strangely shot moment here, with ianto and owen, where ianto is holding on to the railing and owen puts his hand on the railing, too, not touching ianto's hand, but they're looking at each in this Very Meaningful way and owen's hand starts to slide on the railing, inching toward's ianto's but then the camera inexplicably moves up so that we never get to see their hands touch. if we had seen they're hands touching, i would have been like, "awwwwwwwww." but there's this odd secrecy about everything, which makes me go, "OMG THEY'RE SLEEPING TOGETHER!" or, have slept together. multiple times! ianto/owen is something i'd like to explore further. um, well, really, ianto/everybody (except tosh, because can i say again? SO UNCOMFORTABLE).]
At the first mention of one of them turning into a monster, Ianto gives Jack this look:
And then I bit clear through my entire hand.
Owen: I'm ready.
Aiiiiiigh. I don't care if they do this a thousand times. One of the team willingly sacrificing herself/himself will always GUT ME. I fucking love them so much. And Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack. Jack who has to give Owen the first injection. Aiiiiiiigh.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAVE NO WORDS. No words!. Except, WHAT is he holding? Please, please tell me it is some kind of sports equipment, thereby referencing the quip from Sleepers and making that throwaway joke even more hysterical. And um, hot. It looks like it could be some sort of very odd hockey stick. Is British hockey different from North American hockey?
And, HEE! Sometimes, I don't pay attention to what is going on in the foreground if Ianto is standing in the background. I just, um, watch him. Which is why I started cracking up when Gwen told the doctor about how Martha was a pensioner that they look in on sometimes, which is a) a good cover story very quickly thought up (nice job!) and b) how I noticed that Ianto thinks it's a good story too, because he's nodding very emphatically, even though the doctor can't see him, he's giving Gwen the thumbs up without actually giving her the thumbs up. IANTO ILU.
I'm sorry, but I just don't care about the kid with leukemia. I am a very bad person. But! Owen cares about him, and that warms my heart. I also very much like how the denouement happens in a hospital. Owen's a doctor and he's in the business of Torchwood to save lives. The kid with leukemia meeting the manifestation of Death, Owen at the middle, straddling both his worlds. THAT IS SO GOOD.
Ianto: Jack? Jack? Gwen? Anyone? And then it's followed by a hilarious scream when Martha wakes up, herself again. And *then*, the nervous laughter afterwards! OMG HEARTS.
And this episode's installment of This Is How Jack Harkness Looks At Ianto Jones moment:
Heeeeeeeeeeeee! Like he must be the strangest, oddest creature in all the worlds. Ianto keeps you on your toes, Harkness. You go through life letting all the details blur around you, but Ianto keeps surprising you. YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT.
Next week's episode looks amazing. Consequences, yaye!
This was more of a setup episode, but the things they are setting up are exactly the kinds of things I care about. Let's get to it:
Why are they performing an autopsy on Owen? They know how he died -- HE DIED OF A GUN SHOT WOUND. Is it just standard protocol for Torchwood team members?
Creepy psychic girl is creepy.
CPG: If I told you not to use it, would you listen?
Jack: Shouldn't you know the answer to that?
Bweeeeee. Also, of course he wouldn't listen. He doesn't listen to ANYONE.
But, wait. Torchwood, are you telling me that Jack could have gone to some creepy psychic girl and found out where the other Risen Mitten was and then had, I don't know, GOTTEN RID OF IT SO THAT IT WOULDN'T FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS at any point that Jack wanted, and he just...didn't? Hmmmm. I'm willing to buy that Jack is thinking ahead to a time, when, inevitably, one of his team members will die and he'll need the thing, but that brings up the question of: why not retrieve it, keep it in the safe? Unless we're meant to think that he doesn't trust the other members with it, after Suzie. Okay, that could make sense. Where-ever it is, it's hidden. He has the means to retrieve it if he has to. Basically, Jack has all the power here. OTOH, the CPG is exacting some kind of favor in return for letting him know where the glove is hidden. This is interesting. The favor could be very, very big. There's always a price, Jack. Always. I very much like how there are both short term consequences (to Owen, to other people outside of the team) and the promise of long term consequences that could be even more devastating.
God is dead, Jasmine is the way!
It's fun to watch Barrowman walk gingerly around sleeping Weevils and grimace at noises and generally ham it up. His, "Weevils. Why does it always have to be Weevils," face. Hahahahahaha. He was born to play scenes like this. The Weevils feel the energy of the glove, I take it, and that's why they're all sleeping in the church. I hadn't realized, before catching up on the Captain's Blogs, how many Weevils they capture on a weekly basis. There are a *lot* of Weevils running around Cardiff. And this is, evidently, where they all camp out when they aren't eating people.
NICE SFX with the flashlight. I liked that a lot.
Jack is so Mr. Unilateral Decision Maker. "This is not up for discussion." Everyone thinks using the glove is a bad idea. Gwen's the only one who says anything though, and thank god she tries. Ianto says NOTHING. He marks the time on his stopwatch. So, I have to talk about this for a minute.
I'm delighted when Ianto holds up Jack's coat open for him. I'm thrilled when Jack gives Ianto an order to go after the baddies and make sure they're dealt with. But when Jack is about to do something, oh, I don't know -- INSANE, then I need Ianto to say something. Anything. I don't want Ianto to put a bullet through Jack's head (not onscreen, anyways) but he *has* to assert himself and not just go along with whatever Jack has decided they are going to do now. Seriously, all I need for him to say is, "Maybe we should think about this." Jack can shoot him down! He can say, "Just do as you're told!" That would be totally fine! Agh. Don't get me wrong, I like that Ianto is so loyal. But blind loyalty isn't love. And blind loyalty is the kind of thing that makes you think putting your Cyberzed girlfriend in the basement of your workplace where she could kill your co-workers, who are also ostensibly your friends, get out and DESTROY THE WORLD, seem like a good idea. Maybe Ianto will never learn to love smartly, and that is both his great gift and his great failing. If this ends up having bad personal consequences for him (vs. the general bad consequences of 12 dead people and whatever it is that they've done to Owen), then I will retract my frustration. Until then, it seems, basically, like being a devoted employee/sex partner/whatever it is that they are, means never saying "no" to Jack even when he should and this makes me grit my teeth.
I comfort myself with thoughts that Ianto may do Jack's every bidding at work, but it's Jack who spends the small hours of the night ON HIS KNEES, worshipping every inch of Ianto's cock with his mouth, his hands tied behind his back, Ianto murmuring, "That's it, just the way I like it," while he fucks Jack's face.
Hmph.
On the other hand, Jack is covered in Owen's blood. This makes me sad.
And, heeeeee, Ianto whispering the code to the alien morgue to himself so that he'll be able to remember it. That makes me happy.
This scene, though. Yeurgh. It was so gross. Not in a physical sense, just. Jack Harkness, man. He is UNHINGED. He's just going to do whatever he wants, damn the consequences. I don't disapprove of Jack being selfish and wrong and I'm glad for opportunities that canonically prove that he's selfish and wrong at times. That's fine. I just feel so bad for Owen here. This really isn't fair at all. You have something to say to the dead? THAT IS WHAT FUNERALS ARE FOR.
But.
Jack's grief is palpable here. God, he loves his team so much. He's really not thinking straight at this point. He's doing that thing you do where you just act because you have to do something and it doesn't matter what you're doing as long as you're doing it. "Who will save me?" Owen asks in Adam and Jack promises, "I will." I get it. I just don't like it. (Which is to say, I LOVE IT. Because, yes, this will end in tears.)
Jack clutching Owen's hand. *sniffle*.
I also loved Gwen's reaction to the glove, the way she looks at it with blatant fear, the way she flinches away from it at several points. The other one almost killed her; she knows how dangerous it is in a way that's much more personal than it could ever be for anyone else (except, now, Owen). That glove is bad news. I say again, this will end in tears. And she calls Rhys when she's feel overwhelmed. It's SO GOOD that she can do that now. She doesn't even have to go into specifics. Her, "Tough day," is no more detailed than what she might have said before he knew about Torchwood, but now he knows about Torchwood. He understands.
The times that Owen got pulled into the darkness were so freaking cool. That's low level special effects put to very good use. Good thinking on that one, too, SFX team.
This is what love looks like, people. I can not even.
Did JB appear more haggard this episode? Maybe they shellacked less makeup on him to indicate his grief. Whatever it is, it is very much working for me in my woman parts. Can he look this broken all the time? YOW. His hair, however, is still fucking ricockulous.
Okay, this, this is much, much better: Martha facing down Jack, Jack unremitting in his need for secrecy. SHE SAVED THE WORLD, saved him, saved the Doctor and he still isn't going to tell her, or UNIT, everything he knows. She doesn't back off for an instant. Great characterization all around. But what I really, really love is Ianto in this scene. He's *itching* to say something. While Martha yells, his FINGERS CURL AGAINST THE HEM OF HIS SUIT JACKET. Now, *what* he wants to say is anybody's guess. He could want to side with Jack, express his faith and loyalty ("Jack will take care of it; he takes care of all of us"), he could want to side with Martha, ("Jack, look at what using the glove has done, Martha is right, LISTEN TO HER"). Whatever it is, he's *just* managing to keep it back. He even opens his mouth and then closes it again a couple of times. YES. I love it when Ianto orders Jack around (I'll stay here, you check out the roof. You're good on roofs) and when he makes fun of Jack (Terrifying) and when he takes the initiative (THE KISS OMG), but barring time and general episodic flow, I am more than happy to see Ianto conflicted and unable to say what he wants to say.
And, oh, the coat thing, knowing ahead of time that Jack's going to want to go after Owen. He's right there, providing what's needed, when it's needed. Which again, is why it's so important that he show some measure of dissent if he feels it. It's fine if he *doesn't* feel it, that he thinks that whatever Jack does, Jack does because he needs to. Or if Ianto himself is unhinged and selfish, wanting Owen back just as much. JUST SHOW IT TO ME. Sometimes there is such as thing as being TOO SUBTLE.
It may be the Jossverse fan in me, but it seems like they're dropping some heavy hints regarding UNIT and Torchwood 1 -- basically, the real Powers behind Torchwood 3 and how Jack doesn't trust them. I feel like they're setting up a Torchwood 3 vs. the PTB dynamic here. Martha's whole assertion that it might have been the Doctor who paved the road to her very smooth promotion upstairs strikes me as naive. If, suddenly, the CIA came along and wanted to recruit me and told me that "someone" recommended me highly, big giant warning flares would go off. Martha's being used for something, something that is NO GOOD.
Man, that scene with Jack and Owen at the club. Owen is bitter and furious and it's all centered around Jack. The way Jack stares him down while Owen pushes him. OWEN PUSHES HIM UP AGAINST A WALL. asfhjkl. "That's not why I brought you back." And then, outside, with the police, Jack's, "BE CAREFUL WITH HIM." Look at the pretties!
I-is there Owen/Jack fic out there? I mean, is there GOOD Owen/Jack fic out there? There must be.
And then the cell! Um, let us all just ignore all the bodily functions stuff. They're good points and not that often pursued in shows that feature the undead. But with good reason, I think. May I never, ever hear a conversation in which Angel explains how his bladder works. I did like that Owen's perspective on life is very different now, even with regard to the mundane. Maybe even especially with regard to the human body, towards which he would have cultivated a clinical detachment. Now everything, the intricacies of the digestive system, the gag reflex, farts, even, are romanticized in his mind. It was a really great character moment. It was just really, really groddy.
Owen: You've got forever. I could have seconds. Hardly seems fair.
Jack: It isn't. But, then, forever's over-rated.
Owen: Not from where I'm sitting..
Perfect, perfect, perfect.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww. Man, Barrowman is really a big guy. Or Gorman is a really wee one. Either way, this makes me do seal flaps.
AWWWWWWWWW. Fingers! In the hair! Caressing! Sad Owen is sad. :( :( :(
I really love them together like this.
Tosh: I wanted to know why Owen left. Well, actually, more if he talked to anyone about what I said.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. I, uh, I don't really talk about Tosh very much but that's because she's a socially maladjusted, 32 year old Asian geek that works for a covert government organization at a job that's both the most exciting thing she's ever done and one that's eating her soul. If I were to write a Mary Sue character of me into Torchwood, SHE WOULD BE IT. It's kind of awkward. Sometimes hilariously so. I tried to read smut with her and Jack and Ianto the other day and I was SO UNCOMFORTABLE, I couldn't finish it. Tosh is awesome. She isn't, obviously, actually me. But it's a little too close to home sometimes. I WAY overidentify with her. So that's why, in case you were wondering. Anyways, she and Owen are really growing on me, esp. now that he can't have sex. The They Can't Have Sex trope gets me every time. Gimme gimme gimme. I also really like it that he says, "That's not love, that's grief," to her, because he's right. Tosh trails after him, she crushes on him, but not saying how you feel to someone until they're dying is not love. She doesn't know what she feels, just that she feels something for him that she'd like to pursue. Maybe now they'll actually get to know each other and then she can figure out who he really is or what it really is that makes him tick. THEN she can say she loves him and it will mean something.
Owen calls himself the King of Weevils, but this is a misnomer. He's the Conduit of Death and Weevils either worship or are attracted to Death and to the instrument that brings Death forth, makes Death manifest. This...doesn't bode well for the Weevils.
[eta: oh! i forgot! chibnall is such a fan of everyone/everyone, isn't he? there's this strangely shot moment here, with ianto and owen, where ianto is holding on to the railing and owen puts his hand on the railing, too, not touching ianto's hand, but they're looking at each in this Very Meaningful way and owen's hand starts to slide on the railing, inching toward's ianto's but then the camera inexplicably moves up so that we never get to see their hands touch. if we had seen they're hands touching, i would have been like, "awwwwwwwww." but there's this odd secrecy about everything, which makes me go, "OMG THEY'RE SLEEPING TOGETHER!" or, have slept together. multiple times! ianto/owen is something i'd like to explore further. um, well, really, ianto/everybody (except tosh, because can i say again? SO UNCOMFORTABLE).]
At the first mention of one of them turning into a monster, Ianto gives Jack this look:
And then I bit clear through my entire hand.
Owen: I'm ready.
Aiiiiiigh. I don't care if they do this a thousand times. One of the team willingly sacrificing herself/himself will always GUT ME. I fucking love them so much. And Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack. Jack who has to give Owen the first injection. Aiiiiiiigh.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAVE NO WORDS. No words!. Except, WHAT is he holding? Please, please tell me it is some kind of sports equipment, thereby referencing the quip from Sleepers and making that throwaway joke even more hysterical. And um, hot. It looks like it could be some sort of very odd hockey stick. Is British hockey different from North American hockey?
And, HEE! Sometimes, I don't pay attention to what is going on in the foreground if Ianto is standing in the background. I just, um, watch him. Which is why I started cracking up when Gwen told the doctor about how Martha was a pensioner that they look in on sometimes, which is a) a good cover story very quickly thought up (nice job!) and b) how I noticed that Ianto thinks it's a good story too, because he's nodding very emphatically, even though the doctor can't see him, he's giving Gwen the thumbs up without actually giving her the thumbs up. IANTO ILU.
I'm sorry, but I just don't care about the kid with leukemia. I am a very bad person. But! Owen cares about him, and that warms my heart. I also very much like how the denouement happens in a hospital. Owen's a doctor and he's in the business of Torchwood to save lives. The kid with leukemia meeting the manifestation of Death, Owen at the middle, straddling both his worlds. THAT IS SO GOOD.
Ianto: Jack? Jack? Gwen? Anyone? And then it's followed by a hilarious scream when Martha wakes up, herself again. And *then*, the nervous laughter afterwards! OMG HEARTS.
And this episode's installment of This Is How Jack Harkness Looks At Ianto Jones moment:
Heeeeeeeeeeeee! Like he must be the strangest, oddest creature in all the worlds. Ianto keeps you on your toes, Harkness. You go through life letting all the details blur around you, but Ianto keeps surprising you. YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT.
Next week's episode looks amazing. Consequences, yaye!