Torchwood -- 1x08

[butterfly]

What did They Keep Killing Suzie make me think? That, wow, Torchwood really is the Angel to Doctor Who's Buffy. Life is all there is, day to day, and that's what matters. The little things of life, the choices that you make. And Captain Jack shooting Suzie's body, over and over, until they figure out how to kill her -- that's something that wouldn't be on Doctor Who (On Buffy and Doctor Who guns don't work nearly so well as they do on Angel and Torchwood).

I really liked it. Gwen and Suzie were perfect, Jack was ruthless but not without empathy, and Owen, Tosh, and Ianto all had light but important moments. I was very interested in how both Tosh and Owen responded to Suzie coming back. Tosh not quite able to look at her or connect to her, and Owen fully admitted that he's terrified of her. That he's slept with her in the past, but that her becoming a murderer makes her a monster in his eyes, I find that a very interesting thing to slot into his character. The same kind of horror he felt about Mary last week. Possibly why he didn't want Gwen to get more blood on her hands in Countrycide, even if it was in defense of another's life. That though he cocks a gun readily enough, he's also very okay with Jack being the one doing any actual shooting of another human being (and we know his views on the Cybermen, so we know why he was willing to shoot Lisa).

The other big theme that they keep playing over and over is the need to confide in someone. It's what drove Gwen to Owen at the end of Countrycide, it's why Tosh trusted Mary too quickly in Greeks Bearing Gifts, and Suzie uses it as her excuse for tampering with Max's mind in this episode. Can't do this alone, is the general theme, and from what we've been hearing, until Gwen came, they were all doing it alone. Working together, maybe getting a drink after, but not really friends.

What Gwen has been, so far, is a catalyst for them to start caring about each other. They're finding out each other's secrets now, sharing with each other. They're becoming friends. They keep going in this direction and they could become found family, like the Scooby Gang and Angel Investigations and the Serenity crew.