Torchwood: 2x12 -- Fragments

[butterfly]

A) That may have been the awesomest awesome to ever awesome.

B) This icon is so appropriate.

C) I LOVE THIS SHOW! In yelling all-caps, which I normally never ever use, even.

More specifically -- Jack loves his team. His team loves him. His team loves each other. Jack is super-awesome (and kept looking for the Doctor throughout time... aw!). And we know why he says that thing about the 21st century now! Because Alex said it (and killed his whole bloody team to 'save' them from the future). And if last week was 'see how awesome Gwen is', this week was 'see how awesome everyone else is'.

So, Jack was gifted with TW3 and decided to make it a place of protection, rather than a place dedicated to hunting down the Doctor (hooray!). He saved Tosh from being held by UNIT for all her life (Boo UNIT!). Tosh is so amazing and great and awesome. I love her! And Gwen calling her 'darling' is such love.

Ianto joining the team was brilliant! He totally flirted his way in... but wasn't actually expecting to be attracted to Jack in the warehouse (because he has Lisa) and freaked out (but without letting Jack know). Ianto was awesome!

Dude! Owen with the tragic past! Fiancee killed by aliens! The violence that is such a part of his relationship with Jack!

*hearts them all with a fearsome heartness*

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Mean UNIT, treating her like that! The lesson we can gather from this episode is: never trust mysterious government agencies, boys and girls. They'll screw you over six ways from Sunday.

This is where I have a problem (see own review). Not with the principle, but with it being UNIT. And I suppose it will be the divide between New Who and TW only watchers on the one hand, and Old Who watchers on the other, because much as it's possible that a organization would change post 9/11 that way, it still is an emotional slap in the face for it to be one of the most loved parts of DW (old school canon). Imagine how you'd feel if in a hypothetical future where someone other than Joss does a new revived Buffy on screen every single member of the Scoobies other than Buffy is shown having joined the bad guys.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

That part bothered me as well, even with the limited backstory we got on DW--Nine called them "good people" in AoL, after all. But then, the whole US Army isn't Guantanamo Bay; maybe it's just a small segment of the organization.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

True enough, and I hope we'll get a more balanced picture in s4, because otherwise I just can't take a Watsonian stance on this - i.e. going with the story - when my inner Doylist is screaming "Chibnall, Rusty, you BASTARDS, how dare you trash canon (UNIT) to build up your OC (Torchwood 3)?!?"