Torchwood 4.07 Immortal Sins

[selenak]

*whistles Sergio Leone composed tune*

Comments

[51stcenturyfox]

Here from Torchwood Three.

Great review. I love the parallel between Gwen and Alice and being realistic about Jack and who he is.

The whale from Meat! *covers eyes* Now I'm extra-horrified!

[selenak]

Gwen and Alice even both use the same "You bastard" expression when they realise they were about to be conned. :)

The slaughterhouse surroundings made the Meat parallel extra strong for me. :(

[ponygirl2000]

The scenes with Gwen and Jack in the car really made the episode for me. Now for me that was adult television - not the carefully positioned sex scenes but rather two people saying that they love each other but that they're fully prepared to kill each other if need be, and the knowledge that this actually makes their friendship stronger. Otherwise I felt the rest of the episode was too heavy-handed. You've already pointed out the exposition in front of a dangerous alien parasite scene, I also wasn't crazy about Angelo being called out on having a distinguishing mark on his eye because to me that immediately said that we'd be seeing him again.

[selenak]

two people saying that they love each other but that they're fully prepared to kill each other if need be, and the knowledge that this actually makes their friendship stronger.

Yes indeed. And it's such a far cry from how they started. You know, I was always frustrated during watching Angel whenever someone said they'd stake Angel if needs be, because it never convinced me they would (leaving aside that whole title character of the show thing for a moment), but I believed Gwen and Jack here. Completely.

Eyemark: quite. I mean, it did yell "there will be an old actor playing the same character and we'll give him this eyemark so you know it's him" somewhat. But since I didn't actually expect Angelo to die anyway, this was okay.