donutsweeper | TW 2x13- a powerful finale

Overall a terribly powerful episode. It had some problems, some unexpected solutions and several big bangs.

I'm very glad they made the quick mention of Tosh filling in for Owen for the pig-alien from DW S1. That was a nice touch by the writers to fix a previous plot problem.

I had assumed Owen was getting the heave-ho in one way or another this episode, but I hadn't expected Tosh to leave too. Her death shocked me. And why wasn't there a glowy kiss of life? Jack hasn't done one all season- have the writers forgotten about it?

Jack's sanity is amazing, and a bit unrealistic. As is whatever fabrics his coat and shirt and pants are made of, damn it. Really, after nearly 2000 years in the dirt and Jack's sanity AND clothes are intact? Rather unlikely.

I *love* the John twist (he's not a twirl mustache crazy bad guy, but being forced to do what he's done)... but was a bit saddened by the Grey one.

I'm confused about Grey calling him "Jack" before skewering him, especially after "Adam" and how they were careful NOT to name him as a kid. Are we to believe his first name actually IS Jack?

Gwen's performance was excellent- I loved her in the police station taking charge.

I'm a bit confused how the Weevils were 'trained' to take out the people in charge though- did John do that and we just didn't see it?

I'll also admit that in a way I'm glad the season's over. Although it's unlikely things will calm down much considering DW's starting up immediately, but with luck at least some of the rabid fanwank and shipwarfare will die down. I'm looking forward to a time I can have a comm other than

torchwood_meta on my Flist and not be overwhelmed by the insanity and backstabbing for in the posts there.

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No one's been able to explain them to me. Scythe wielding creepies.. kind of cool in a hopelessly easy to kill way

It made for some awesome Tosh and Ianto action.

absolutely... but bam, bam, bam and *poof* no more bad guys. 'Twas a bit easy a solution in my book. I had suspected them to show up again near the end and attack Owen when he was trying to make things right at the plant

Yeah, they definitely could've been a bit more useful to Gray's cause.

that's a good point actually- did Grey bring them there on purpose? Did they randomly fall through the rift? Like the randomly trained Weevils, I just didn't get it

I still can't figure out if the rift storms were made to bring the bombs through and the rest just followed or if he intended to bring other things through, too.

I have a feeling this is the sort of story that's plot doesn't stand a hope in hell of holding up when dissected.

Probably.

like many of the TW episodes, unfortunately

Unfortunately...though, for some reason, I still love the show.

I can think of a few reasons....

Mmm...yes.

*sighs happily*

I really want to go back and watch that episode, now...but I lent my disc to someone at work.

you burn it onto a disc instead of downloading it to your harddrive?

My harddrive is ridiculously small, so, until I get an external harddrive, I burn the good stuff (like TW), and delete everything else.

so you dl-ed to an external harddrive and then wrote it onto a disc?

No, I just dl to my harddrive and then delete them once I've burned them.

I hadn't considered burning mine to disc. I might do that since many of the episodes aren't really worth keeping and taking up space

Yeah, there's that, too. If you've got a DVD burner on your computer, I think you can fit a season or two on one disk.

hmmm.. (shows ignorance) what do I need to have on my puter to do that? A specific program?

If your computer already has the DVD burner built in, you can just use DVD-Rs and DVD-RWs as data discs, like you would CD-Rs and CD-RWs. They fit a lot more that way.

(Shows even further stupidity) where do I look to see if my computer has a dvd burner? I thought it did, but I can't find it

Well, I'm not really sure. If you can find the system profile, it should tell you all that stuff, but I wouldn't really know where to look on a computer that's not a Mac.