Torchwood: Greeks Bearing Gifts

[mllelaurel]

Thoroughly enjoyable so far, but oh, the Buffy parallels. I'm twenty minutes in, and I could well be watching "Earshot." You know, if BtVS had more femmeslash, back in its third season days. (It had Faith, though. I call that a decent trade-off.)

Also, someone please explain to me why Mary reminds me so much of Darla.

Hmmm. Static. Guess Jack really has had psychic shield training.

Way to go, Mary. Stealing Turlough's backstory for your cover. Tsk-tsk. He'll be bitchy when he hears about that.

Wow. Really, actively liking Gwen here. In fact, I absolutely loved the two scenes Toshiko had at the end, first with Gwen, then with Jack.

I'd say this is one of the better episodes. There was some character behavior I felt was a bit too teenage-like and a few things could have been dealt with in greater detail, but the first is a minor quibble, and the second couldn't be helped, considering the episode length. We had interesting plot and sympathetic characters, as well as a satisfying ending. This episode also bears the distinction of being one of the few in the series not to leave me with a not-quite-identifiable dirty feeling, after I was done watching. And that? Is always a good thing.

Tally:

Queer content: Fiiiinally!
Jack naked: Err...he got his mind read? That could sorta kinda count?

Next episode looks promising, too.

Comments

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I think it's the same power that keeps him coming back to life. Which only happened after he died on the space station. Which is why I called it 'natural shielding' -- In the comics, Gambit's mind can't be read at all. It was thought this was part of his powers, but even when he lost his powers, no telepath could get into his mind.

I'm just sort of irked by Tosh saying it was like he was dead. Him being dead is different from being a mental blank to telepaths.`

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Except that her comment seems more apt to what's been happening with him than not.