tw 2.02 *sigh* not as good as last week's

[donutsweeper]

It wasn't a bad episode, but I was nowhere near as interested in it as last weeks.

There were some good points-

1-Snarky Owen.  Loved how he told Gwen Jack said she was the one Jack said had to stay and watch the burgler.  Also Owen in doctor mode is great.

2- Loved the way they reacted to her 'there's no such thing as aliens" statement.  "Beth, Janet.. Janet meet Beth..."

3- Ianto's one-liners and clever bits!  "I know everything, also it says so on the bottom of the screen."

4- Loved the bit about the phones being down and "there is no way of getting in touch with Jack, no way", but then Jack radios in

5-Jack- "have a little faith, with a dashing hero like me on the case, how can we fail?"
 Ianto- "He is dashing..."  (very cute exchange!)

6- Running over bad agent guy- Yay for the TW SUV!!!

but...

Gwen is still frustrating me- she's acting like she did in S1, where we are supposed to love her overwrought compassion and horror at what Jack says they need to do...not my cup of tea (the look she gives Jack when Jack promises to kill Beth if she's stuck as an alien?  *grrr*)

and.. How DID the sleepers (or Beth at least) learn EVERYTHING about torchwood and the entire team?   Codes and all?

What was Jack's point of asking "turned" Beth about his boots?  She looked down at his feet, was that to see if she still understood English in that form?

So... if TW hadn't run into Beth than none of this would have happened?  They interfered with Beth's implant and therefore caused the other sleeper agents to awaken?

and.. the weird conversations between the TW team with everyone on different catwalks and levels felt oddly directed, unnatural and stilted

*eep*.. random baby in stroller death?  A sleeper agent had a kid?  Is that possible, or was she a nanny?  Either way... *eep*

Beth was slipped into drawer 007, purposeful Bond reference, or not?

neat how army shoots bad agent guy and no bullets ricochet and hit the car behind him,  not one.

and.. Jack was skewered by dying evil alien guy... and is fine?  So, he doesn't have instaheal superpowers, he just grunts when completely run through by evil looking sword thing?  They've changed the way he can deal with injury again?  And huge armsword left little bitty hole in his white tshirt?  Really?

eta- the_dark_side reminded me about Owen watering the plant.  Random and utterly odd... Anyone have an explanation?

eta#2- Pirate!Jack was just plain weird

Not a *bad* episode overall... just a lot of niggling annoyances


and on a minor note.. the nice little mind probe blows my finish-a-thon fic out of the water *sigh* 

Comments

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

The SUV is such an underutilized weapon

Yeah, the stabbing just confused me.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

that's one of those "grr" worthy moments I have with writers, did they even THINK of Jack's injury at all?

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

probably not.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I had assumed that after running from the explosion Jack would collapse. If that was all they did I would be happy, but NO, he seemed fine.

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I think it would've been rather amusing if he'd actually died while impaled on the sword, thus impaling himself further...but I would've settled for collapse, too.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

you scare me.. because I had thought of the exact same thing

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

*cackle* great minds and all.