This means... bawling imminent
Mar. 26th, 2009 02:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grassangelIt's episode eleven, which means Tosh and Owen are going to die! *sobs*
Anyway... this episode. I can see how you could get a whole bunch of Gwen haters from this. She was way too empathetic and focused on getting a happy ending for everyone who had someone go missing. It was annoying how she was so, too, idealistic. If the ending hadn't been what it had, I would've been annoyed. But the follow up was sweet and RIGHT.
So, over-empathising isn't that big of a character flaw but trying to make it right no matter what the cost is.
And perhaps it's just because I have a mother who works in a physc ward or perhaps I've read too many books, but she was a bit dumb for expecting everything to go right in that situation. If you hand someone or a situation that is alien and unrecognisable, they're going to shut down into denial and grief. Not a recipe for a happy ending.
(I do kind of wish she had done something to assuage everyone elses anxiety while letting them keep their hope though. Pessimistic Optimist, that's me.)
Anyway, 'heart' in Torchwood is good, it reminds you that people come first but too much and you end up hurting them.
A little ACTOR annoyance is how Eve Myles, when crying, always has the tear dribble from the middle of her eye. This annoys me slightly, mostly for aesthetics (it reminds me of Ulquiorra's markings) and because I do not know anyone who cries like that.
Moral and Gwen aside, Tosh, Ianto and Rhys were played nicely this week. Tosh because she's Tosh and there was a 'Yay! The girls are solving a problem!' period. Ianto because he's such a darling and so discreet, especially when giving Gwen what she needed to figure out her problem.
Also, I totally think that coffee maker harbours alien technology. There is now way it can have that many bells and whistles, knobs and switches for it NOT to do so.
Rhys also gets fangirling because he has to deal with Gwen. And because he echoed my mum's sentiments about keep work-related issues at work and home-issues at home. (A sentiment I don't wholly agree with.) Even if he did muck that up at the end... but I reckon he's Torchwood enough to get it.
Torchwood so needs a counselor.
Anything else?
The greenhouse scene was rather tasteful. I am slightly of the opinion that it could've been a few seconds longer but it WAS fun.
I am rather confused by it though. Last time we saw the green/hothouse on-screen, we saw cactuses in glass cases. Now we have plants out in the open with large green leaves. To compound matters further, one of the books has it vaguely like it was this episode, but also has it double as a laboratory.
And er... I'll squeal over Ianto again. His discreetness is adorable.
The dragon mural popped up again too and I'm fairly certain it's red. Which also leads to the question why is there a red dragon graffitied on a Torchwood wall? Aside from purposes of patriotism? (It's pretty cool looking but kind of reminds me of Groudon.)
Anyway... this episode. I can see how you could get a whole bunch of Gwen haters from this. She was way too empathetic and focused on getting a happy ending for everyone who had someone go missing. It was annoying how she was so, too, idealistic. If the ending hadn't been what it had, I would've been annoyed. But the follow up was sweet and RIGHT.
So, over-empathising isn't that big of a character flaw but trying to make it right no matter what the cost is.
And perhaps it's just because I have a mother who works in a physc ward or perhaps I've read too many books, but she was a bit dumb for expecting everything to go right in that situation. If you hand someone or a situation that is alien and unrecognisable, they're going to shut down into denial and grief. Not a recipe for a happy ending.
(I do kind of wish she had done something to assuage everyone elses anxiety while letting them keep their hope though. Pessimistic Optimist, that's me.)
Anyway, 'heart' in Torchwood is good, it reminds you that people come first but too much and you end up hurting them.
A little ACTOR annoyance is how Eve Myles, when crying, always has the tear dribble from the middle of her eye. This annoys me slightly, mostly for aesthetics (it reminds me of Ulquiorra's markings) and because I do not know anyone who cries like that.
Moral and Gwen aside, Tosh, Ianto and Rhys were played nicely this week. Tosh because she's Tosh and there was a 'Yay! The girls are solving a problem!' period. Ianto because he's such a darling and so discreet, especially when giving Gwen what she needed to figure out her problem.
Also, I totally think that coffee maker harbours alien technology. There is now way it can have that many bells and whistles, knobs and switches for it NOT to do so.
Rhys also gets fangirling because he has to deal with Gwen. And because he echoed my mum's sentiments about keep work-related issues at work and home-issues at home. (A sentiment I don't wholly agree with.) Even if he did muck that up at the end... but I reckon he's Torchwood enough to get it.
Torchwood so needs a counselor.
Anything else?
The greenhouse scene was rather tasteful. I am slightly of the opinion that it could've been a few seconds longer but it WAS fun.
I am rather confused by it though. Last time we saw the green/hothouse on-screen, we saw cactuses in glass cases. Now we have plants out in the open with large green leaves. To compound matters further, one of the books has it vaguely like it was this episode, but also has it double as a laboratory.
And er... I'll squeal over Ianto again. His discreetness is adorable.
The dragon mural popped up again too and I'm fairly certain it's red. Which also leads to the question why is there a red dragon graffitied on a Torchwood wall? Aside from purposes of patriotism? (It's pretty cool looking but kind of reminds me of Groudon.)
