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Rhys, not Reece.
Hate to be pedantic, but thinking things like that are important is a side-effect of me being Welsh.

Really liked this episode. Saying Treganna is my favourite Torchwood writer is a bit of an understatement, and though the 'shopping list' she's been given to work with here hasn't really given her room to dazzle, there's a lot to like about this script. Most of all...THIS WEEK THE TEAM AREN'T EVIL! Whooo!

just watched it on youtube but i missed the last bit only got up to the bit where gwen and rhys were talking on those steps DID SHE DRUG HIM OR NOT??? gonk the curses of living in australia

What a glorious thing it would be if phrases such as "The fight scene in that movie was so Ianto!" became common.



"You have forfeited the right to limbs!" scream

i think it was the best episode so far, and the love triangle is getting rather interesting cos Jack keeps saying to Gwen to keep her life together to go home to Ryse, yes then has these little intimate moments with her himself....
jack does seem to be almost stringing both Gwen and Ianto along, but doesnt something happen on Gwen's wedding day or something...so maybe that doesnt go to plan and Jack picks up the pieces....

though i did find hilarious when Rhse askes Jack 'Your not gay are you?' had to find that completely ironic of cors razz

Maybe the Doctor's some sort of loan shark?
"Borrow one of mine, I take four of yours!"



I hate Jack/Gwen. Partly because all the scenes that touch upon it are a bit rubbish, and partly because it's just so lazy. He's the leading man! She's the leading woman! Together they go!

Doesn't bother me that it conflicts with Jack/Ianto as between you and me, I get the impression that our Jack may not be a one organism kind of a guy. It just bothers me that Jack/Gwen is naff unto itself. The UST thing doesn't work unless the audience wants the characters to get together, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who's rooting for those particular crazy kids to hook up.

About the harem thing...I almost don't want to say this because I love the series' normalisation of bisexuality, but...well, in a group of five people in Cardiff it's a bit of a statistical anomally that three would be bi* and one would be omnisexual. You've got to start to wonder if sexual preference is one of Jack's recruitment criteria.

* - At least behaviourally, we don't know how they identify.



I loved that deftly written little exchange. Rhys is so operating in the mindset where 'gay or straight' are the two available options, which is so very far from the Torchwood universe.



There's a lot to like. There's nothing BIG enough to make me love it, and there's a couple of clunky scenes that let it down (both of the Jack/Gwen related, so that might just be my antipathy talking) but it goes a good way towards making the characters less repellant.

I rewatched the Master trilogy again last night (The second best one, not Keeper of Trakken, Logopolis and Castrovalva) and what the Doctor should have done is put a little holographic version of himself in Jack's wrist-thingy when he was fixing it. One that could have popped up whenever Jack was about to do something horrid and given him a stern look and a "Oh no you don't..." That's why everyone likes Jack in Doctor Who and feels a bit ill watching him in Torchwood. Because he gets the stern looks and a "Oh no you don't..."s in Doctor Who.

It'd be great!

Jack: Ianto! I order you to kill the woman you love. I know we'd all stand a better chance of survival if I ordered the whole team to try, but for no particular reason I really want to watch you do it...

Tiny Holographic Ten: *stares* Jack...



Jack: Terrified woman! We're going to torture you, then I'm going to go and flirt with my ******** about how well I've done it!

Tiny Holographic Ten: *stares* Jack...



Jack: Tosh! For no reason I'm going to murder the woman you love by sending her into the sun rather than letting her go home, which would get her out of our hair just as effectively. Then, I'm going to joke about it in front of you by horribly delivering an old Goon Show gag...

Tiny Holographic Ten: *stares* Jack...

Jack: Okay! No Goon Show gag!

Tiny Holographic Ten: *continues staring*

Jack: Alright! Alright! No pointless murder either! Jesus!




Still, I'm glad I'm feeling warmer towards the show right now since it's the DOUBLE BILL next week!

On BBC2 they're showing Adam, the Big Treganna Character Piece.
Then on BBC3 straight after they're showing Reset, the first Martha episode. heart

It's Jack. What d'you think he wants them for?

Eek! How long arre you over there for? Will Reset (the first Martha ep) still be up on iPlayer when you get back?

Such a shame iPlayer can't be used outside the UK. sad

Actually...the BBC will have an interesting choice to make this week now that they're showing Ep5 on BBC2 followed by Ep6 on BBC3 - do they just put the BBC2 episode up on iPlayer or both of them?



I'm not sure it was meant as a reference, but I'm sure every one of us watching was thinking that. Comes to something when people can't appologise without setting off the intertextual alarm bells.



Very optimistic here, since it sounds a fun concept and it's got the only writer on the staff I trust at the keyboard.



Here's a fun thing - now the accursed Chibnall has been made showrunner for Law and Order: London, then he's very unlikely to still be the showrunner of Torchwood if it gets a third season. That probably means Helen Raynor will get the gig, but wouldn't it be fantastic if Treganna did?