out of time
Dec. 18th, 2006 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
violaceaA few brief Torchwood thoughts, before I go do some serious baking.
Mostly? I want to marry this episode and have its shiny little babies.
Brilliant character work. Seriously. Jack, Gwen, and Owen all ... beautiful work mirroring all their own flaws and problems back at them.
Owen - Alex and I have officially decided that we're just ignoring the alien perfume scene in the first episode, because it was obviously something that the writers didn't calculate well. Because, if you leave that go, then Owen is a fantastically complex and nuanced character, an ass and a charmer and, underneath that thin veneer, just as lost and lonely as everyone else at Torchwood Three. He and Diane were simply lovely together, and his little ramble around the subject of love took my breath away, because that would be it exactly for him, wouldn't it? Love would scare the shit out of him. I just read a little bit of meta on the Gwen/Owen relationship, which talks about Owen getting scared at the end of "They Keep Killing Suzie", when Gwen was dead, and how that probably set him off on a course away from Gwen. Which would make total sense. Can't get too close, look how much that hurts. I can see it totally.
Gwen - is shown what it's like to have someone disapprove of your new life. Emma, Rhys ... her thin veneer is cracking, big time, and apparently she decides to break it with a hammer next week - that is SO not going to go well. Meep. But, she's seeing that she can't keep a foot in both worlds ... she can't have both Rhys and Owen, obviously, but more to the point, she can't have both Rhys and Torchwood. Rhys isn't going to stand for it, and he'd never be able to - or be allowed to - live with the knowledge. Jack said it - "the less you know about us, the better." Obviously, with a second series on the way, we know what her choice is eventually going to be ... they can't keep up the theme of her double life, not without making Rhys seem like a complete bumbling fool and Gwen seem like a completely heartless bitch. So, we'll be saying goodbye to Rhys in the next few weeks, one way or another.
Jack - ... and there he is, staring back at himself. How many times, you wonder, did he try to kill himself before he realized it wouldn't work? He's out of time, most definitely, and is apathetic enough to the world he's currently living in that he'd kill himself in a heartbeat if he thought he could. This is what's going to have to change somewhere between this season and next - what's going to have to happen during those three episodes of Doctor Who. Jack needs life again, purpose, a reason to keep going.
Fantastic acting all around in this one. And jesus, it's official, I might be half in love with Owen. I didn't want to be, but I think I gave up somewhere around the dress. Heh.
There's so much more to say about this episode, but there's also SO MUCH BAKING to be done. Meep. More later!
Mostly? I want to marry this episode and have its shiny little babies.
Brilliant character work. Seriously. Jack, Gwen, and Owen all ... beautiful work mirroring all their own flaws and problems back at them.
Owen - Alex and I have officially decided that we're just ignoring the alien perfume scene in the first episode, because it was obviously something that the writers didn't calculate well. Because, if you leave that go, then Owen is a fantastically complex and nuanced character, an ass and a charmer and, underneath that thin veneer, just as lost and lonely as everyone else at Torchwood Three. He and Diane were simply lovely together, and his little ramble around the subject of love took my breath away, because that would be it exactly for him, wouldn't it? Love would scare the shit out of him. I just read a little bit of meta on the Gwen/Owen relationship, which talks about Owen getting scared at the end of "They Keep Killing Suzie", when Gwen was dead, and how that probably set him off on a course away from Gwen. Which would make total sense. Can't get too close, look how much that hurts. I can see it totally.
Gwen - is shown what it's like to have someone disapprove of your new life. Emma, Rhys ... her thin veneer is cracking, big time, and apparently she decides to break it with a hammer next week - that is SO not going to go well. Meep. But, she's seeing that she can't keep a foot in both worlds ... she can't have both Rhys and Owen, obviously, but more to the point, she can't have both Rhys and Torchwood. Rhys isn't going to stand for it, and he'd never be able to - or be allowed to - live with the knowledge. Jack said it - "the less you know about us, the better." Obviously, with a second series on the way, we know what her choice is eventually going to be ... they can't keep up the theme of her double life, not without making Rhys seem like a complete bumbling fool and Gwen seem like a completely heartless bitch. So, we'll be saying goodbye to Rhys in the next few weeks, one way or another.
Jack - ... and there he is, staring back at himself. How many times, you wonder, did he try to kill himself before he realized it wouldn't work? He's out of time, most definitely, and is apathetic enough to the world he's currently living in that he'd kill himself in a heartbeat if he thought he could. This is what's going to have to change somewhere between this season and next - what's going to have to happen during those three episodes of Doctor Who. Jack needs life again, purpose, a reason to keep going.
Fantastic acting all around in this one. And jesus, it's official, I might be half in love with Owen. I didn't want to be, but I think I gave up somewhere around the dress. Heh.
There's so much more to say about this episode, but there's also SO MUCH BAKING to be done. Meep. More later!
