Torchwood 102
This episode’s plot focused on sex. An alien that fed off orgasmic energies - that’s something Buffy and Angel never came up with. I thought is was pretty risky for the second episode of a new series, but I found the plot to be refreshing, something new. It showed some of the methods Torchwood worked with, that they didn’t care about people, just their jobs and how Gwen tried to work on that, being more or less successful.
Not the best episode, the sex scenes were very strange but I don’t want to get into that.
The girl the alien possessed, Carys, looked pretty young. She probably was in her early twenties, considering that she still lives at home with her dad, but she looked more like a sixteen, seventeen year old girl. I liked how she changed between personalities, the alien one seeming ruthless and the other one as an insecure teenage girl.
I still don’t like Gwen too much. She is pretty annoying, always wanting to know what’s going on, questioning everything. I guess that’s what a newbie does, I know that if she didn’t ask, the people watching would have no clue about what’s going on, but I still don’t like her. I don’t get why she keeps lying to her boyfriend, why she is all about the human approach to stuff, wanting to change everything instead of just accepting that this is the way things are done at Torchwood. She also got on my nerves when she kept apologizing after freeing the alien, instead of saying it once and being done with it. The others looked pretty annoyed as well.
She doesn’t seem to be bisexual, I blame it on the pheromones Carys emitted that Gwen made out with her.
I don’t like how Jack always has to come to Gwen’s rescue and how she kissed him, even though it was just to thank him. It’s not like people do this in the real world (but then again, it’s not like people fight aliens in the real world). I don’t want Gwen to have something with Jack. She can stick to Owen who flirts with her. He’s cute if a little perverted, I like him and think that even though he slept with a man in the pilot, he is more interested in girls, his way of saying that Jack is gay just made me feel this way.
He is the mysterious character nobody knows too much about, not even his sexual orientation. I liked how Toshiko said that she had watched him in action and that he would shag everything that is beautiful enough. This is reinforced when he sees Gwen with Carys and Toshiko says that she thought Gwen had a boyfriend and he mutters, "You people and your quaint little categories."
I didn’t understand Jack’s obsession with the hand although I knew we’d see more of it. It’s so important to him that he lets Carys go and runs to the hand that isn’t in its jar anymore and cradles it lovingly, looking shocked by the jar being destroyed, almost as if he fears something would happen to the hand. I wonder what hand that is, I really want to know, they made me curious.
Owen is the character we see more of in this episode and after I didn’t care about him in the first one, I’m starting to like him, there’s something cute about his perverted ways and it’s pretty obvious that he is hitting on Gwen. So it will end up with Gwen either having an affair with him or with Jack. Hopefully him.
There’s not much on Toshiko, what she does when she isn’t working or background information on her, just that like Owen and Jack she is in no relationship.
And Ianto, cute Ianto, has a bit of screen time in this, not enough though. He shouldn’t just be there to clean up after Torchwood has done what needs to be done, he should be an equal member, going with them so I can see more of him. He’s just so adorable (I admit that I’m smitten by him).
And that’s actually all I have written down.