Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness

[mllelaurel]

- I'd half-figured Jack had nicked his name off of someone, though I used 'Jack' in fic about his past, for lack of any other info. Now I really, really want to know what his real name is.

- *does the dance of Tosh has lines and is magnificent and <3* That's my girl!

- Also, Owen's gone round the bend. It doesn't occur to him at all that even if a) they succeed in opening the Rift, and b) do so without making spacetime go boom, Diane would kick his arse for trying to get her back. Leaving was her choice, not his.

- Whatever the deal with Bilis is, it's actually creepy. Props.

- I'm not making the logical connection to how Gwen found that photo. What'd she do - use magical mystical Gwen powers?

- Owen finding that last piece of the machinery was more believable, though still a long shot.

- The dance and almost-kiss - ETA: More than almost! Hurrah! - were absolutely lovely. Not just in a tawdry fangirl way, but in a poignant, in-character one.

I may have teared up a little. Don't hold it against me.

In conclusion - the scenes in the past were vastly superior to the ones in the present. But the 40s stuff was so brilliant, and besides, I have a feeling Tregenna was a bit constrained by having to lead into Chibnall's finale, in the present scenes. I thus can't bring myself to lower the score.

I will say again how wonderful Jack (both of them) and Tosh were. My love knows no bounds.

Final review: 4

Randomly, I also love that song they played at the end. "Nightingale in Berkley Square." First heard it referenced in Good Omens, actually.

Now that I think about it, Tregenna's really good at using her in-scene music. She did this with "Windy City" in Out of Time, too.


I have this dream of next year's Torchwood being headed by Tregenna, with Helen Raynor, Dan McCulloch, Paul Tomalin and Russell T. Davies also contributing. I'd add P. J. Hammond to that list as well, so long as he's briefed to make his episode mesh with a sci fi world. I'd even add Toby Whithouse - his work may have been derivative, but it was still entertaining.

Hey, I don't make fun of *your* futile dreams, do I?

And to finish this entry, an announcement: According to Wikipedia, Torchwood will be airing on ABC this year. Dude. Never in a million years did I believe it would fly on an American non-cable channel. That's what happens when you don't actually watch TV, I guess. You fall out of date.

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[sephyelysian.livejournal.com]

This has actually been stated and confirmed by the BBC. I think Outpost Gallifrey had something up about it recently? I think their rationale is that Doctor Who is not an adult show whereas Torchwood is. Now, I would argue anything that contemplates genocide and has some of the violence it does is NOT a children's show but then DW has always been in a weird place label-wise. But I'm a little confused about how they're going to mesh Jack as he was and Jack as is now and argue that the trade off in the shows makes perfect sense. x_X