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[mllelaurel]

I interrupt my viewing on Torchwood episode two to bang my head against the laptop screen and mutter. Gwen! Stop being incompetent, dammit! Who let this bint into the police academy? And while we're at it, Jack, what were you thinking, hiring her?

Is it too late to replace her with Rhys the boyfriend, who I'm liking more and more?

Mind, I'm five minutes, thirty-nine seconds in. There may yet be improvements. Or she may get worse and I'll be forced to marathon more Babylon 5 to regain stable blood pressure, sanity and respect for womankind. Mmmmm, Ivanova...

ETA: Eighteen minutes, fourty-seven seconds. Gwen still bumbling about. On the plus side, I'm liking Toshiko more and more. Hell, I'll even take Carys - the girl possessed by the alien. Her, at least, I feel bad for.

ETA 2: Not only useless, but a hypocrite too. For all her babbling about wasting time, Gwen takes time out to research Carys's background, just so she can be a 'humanizing influence' on Jack. How, exactly, is this helping Carys with the alien possession thing that Gwen claims to feel so passionate about?

ETA 3: She's...never used a gun. She's a fucking policewoman, and she's never used a gun? Right.

ETA 4: Ok, the ending didn't suck. But I still could use a drink.

Comments

[sephyelysian.livejournal.com]

...uh, you're gonna want to mainline some B5. XD;;; I'm just going to hope that in future episodes she suddenly gets more competent because er...yeah. -__-;

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Yeeeaaah. At least it's not just me noticing this.

[sephyelysian.livejournal.com]

That episode is kind of painful. RTD and crew can't decide if they want her competent or innocent and instead of making her both they're waffling. She makes Rose look like Emma Peel sans catsuit and that's sad because Rose was a civvie with less training. -__-;;;

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. Dude, she makes me look like a better idea for a Torchwood employee, and I trip over air on a regular basis and have the attention span of a toddler.

[sephyelysian.livejournal.com]

I think part of the problem is the actress. She's a good actress but I'm not really sure she's right for being the lead actress here. I feel bad but Billie would be pulling this off better somehow. Miss Myles is a bit too mild, if that makes any sense. The other problem is the writers can't seem to figure out a tack to take with her yet and so it feels like they'recasting about trying to find something that works. And did we really need it hammered in repeatedly that she is the "humanizing influence for Torchwood"? Given that she's probably going to end up dropped her rather adorable boyfriend for some sort of emotional affair with Jack ... Uh, not sure what that says about humanity other than we're way fickle.

Even if Jack is rather hot. ^~

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

If she has anything more than a shag with Jack, I will physically vomit. Jack very rarely gets involved for real, and has better taste when he does.

Dear God, I sound like one of those fangirls.