Day Four
Back to watching Torchwood, since I'm more or less done with homework. Though my dreams of seeing the whole thing in a week were dashed, I'll probably finish it sometime this week.
Okay, yes, I am very glad I do remember this, because the PREVIOUSLY makes NO SENSE. Who clipped this together?
Flashback time! Let me be positive- I love how Torchwood does flashbacks. Dates, place, I know what's going on. I'm usually pretty good at following plots, but flashbacks always throw me. Not in Torchwood, though!
Jack is pretty cold-blooded in the past! This is good, I hope.
Actually, I can't tell whether he's unhappy about sending kids into the unknown or if he's just awkward with children. Seriously, his expressions would freak me out if I was a small child. Serious gritted teeth.
I'm unhappy with the explanation for child-guy's tic. Yes, it was a traumatic experience, but it seems odd that that 'isn't it' is what he would've seized on. I was hoping for a better connection. But whatever.
HOLY SHIT HE SHOT HIM I have to go look up child-guy's name, he is my new favorite character.
Except that that means he'll die soon. Ah, well.
Yeah, Ianto, why didn't he tell you this little detail of his hundreds of years of life? How selfish of him! (I was going to say something about how I don't tell people every little detail of my life but that would be a lie. If I had tossed kids to aliens pretty much everyone around would've known by morning, and I would be telling that story for the next fifty years.)
Okay, so I have this love/hate relationship with reaction shots. They bother me, but they seem necessary. But I love, love, love the completely unnecessary reaction shots of the blue, unmoving, opaque tank of aliens.
Okay, inside the tank now, and on the one hand I really like the atmosphere and how it allows them to suggest most of the alien. On the other, I have no idea what I'm looking at here. Apparently everyone else can see clearly?
Aaaand the web of lies falls apart. I suspect this is the end to my amazing bureaucrat-drama and the beginning of the action-show.
Oh my God, they're really going to do it! Yeah, well, what else are they going to do? It's been set up as an impossible situation. Give the 456 the kids, or everyone dies? I know what I would do. But obviously Torchwood is going to bust in and wave their self-righteousness around.
Bald guy, I understand you're after at least some not disastrous PR, but I'm pretty sure humanity wouldn't accept a worldwide cull. Not if it was evenly spread.
They definitely wouldn't accept it if the highest echelons of government were exempt. You'd have a bloody revolution on your hands.
Oh, God, especially if it was limited to lower-class kids. This lady is 1) monstrous, and 2) first up against the wall.
Forget Jack's philosophizing about the indivisibility of mankind; here's the real Moral of the Story: when presented with inconvenient facts, simply repeat yourself. Eventually the problem will go away. This works for both 456 and Harknesses.
Clem's dead! My percentage for favorite character survival is way, way down. Still only Captain John, though if Frobisher gets a shot at Jack, he's a shoo-in. (Who am I kidding, he's so obviously my favorite character. Bet he dies next episode.)
And everyone else dies to dramatic music! This is why I dislike dramatic music so much, guys.
Ianto's dead now. I was more broken up about Clem, but I can see why fandom freaked out so much.
NEXT TIME: Guns, soldiers, soldiers, Frobisher, guns.
So, that was pretty intense. Hoping it doesn't all fall apart.
Okay, yes, I am very glad I do remember this, because the PREVIOUSLY makes NO SENSE. Who clipped this together?
Flashback time! Let me be positive- I love how Torchwood does flashbacks. Dates, place, I know what's going on. I'm usually pretty good at following plots, but flashbacks always throw me. Not in Torchwood, though!
Jack is pretty cold-blooded in the past! This is good, I hope.
Actually, I can't tell whether he's unhappy about sending kids into the unknown or if he's just awkward with children. Seriously, his expressions would freak me out if I was a small child. Serious gritted teeth.
I'm unhappy with the explanation for child-guy's tic. Yes, it was a traumatic experience, but it seems odd that that 'isn't it' is what he would've seized on. I was hoping for a better connection. But whatever.
HOLY SHIT HE SHOT HIM I have to go look up child-guy's name, he is my new favorite character.
Except that that means he'll die soon. Ah, well.
Yeah, Ianto, why didn't he tell you this little detail of his hundreds of years of life? How selfish of him! (I was going to say something about how I don't tell people every little detail of my life but that would be a lie. If I had tossed kids to aliens pretty much everyone around would've known by morning, and I would be telling that story for the next fifty years.)
Okay, so I have this love/hate relationship with reaction shots. They bother me, but they seem necessary. But I love, love, love the completely unnecessary reaction shots of the blue, unmoving, opaque tank of aliens.
Okay, inside the tank now, and on the one hand I really like the atmosphere and how it allows them to suggest most of the alien. On the other, I have no idea what I'm looking at here. Apparently everyone else can see clearly?
Aaaand the web of lies falls apart. I suspect this is the end to my amazing bureaucrat-drama and the beginning of the action-show.
Oh my God, they're really going to do it! Yeah, well, what else are they going to do? It's been set up as an impossible situation. Give the 456 the kids, or everyone dies? I know what I would do. But obviously Torchwood is going to bust in and wave their self-righteousness around.
Bald guy, I understand you're after at least some not disastrous PR, but I'm pretty sure humanity wouldn't accept a worldwide cull. Not if it was evenly spread.
They definitely wouldn't accept it if the highest echelons of government were exempt. You'd have a bloody revolution on your hands.
Oh, God, especially if it was limited to lower-class kids. This lady is 1) monstrous, and 2) first up against the wall.
Forget Jack's philosophizing about the indivisibility of mankind; here's the real Moral of the Story: when presented with inconvenient facts, simply repeat yourself. Eventually the problem will go away. This works for both 456 and Harknesses.
Clem's dead! My percentage for favorite character survival is way, way down. Still only Captain John, though if Frobisher gets a shot at Jack, he's a shoo-in. (Who am I kidding, he's so obviously my favorite character. Bet he dies next episode.)
And everyone else dies to dramatic music! This is why I dislike dramatic music so much, guys.
Ianto's dead now. I was more broken up about Clem, but I can see why fandom freaked out so much.
NEXT TIME: Guns, soldiers, soldiers, Frobisher, guns.
So, that was pretty intense. Hoping it doesn't all fall apart.