{"id":114653,"date":"2016-02-09T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/09\/and-some-more-torchwood-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:42:37","slug":"and-some-more-torchwood-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/09\/and-some-more-torchwood-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"And some more Torchwood thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

flaglesspiracy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u2026 because it\u2019s the middle of the night and I simply cannot read any more articles for work and I cannot sleep and I\u2019m somehow both hyper and down at the same time. I\u2019m too stressed.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

1. I keep thinking about what would happen if one were to use both resurrection gloves at the same time. Because that\u2019s gotta be the way they were designed to be used, right? Maybe the one that brought Owen back makes one undead and then the one used on & by Suzie somehow makes them alive? Maybe a connection is established between the undeadness (undeath?) and the limited back-to-life status, i.e. the consequences of both gloves and then the patient (?) becomes truly alive again? Or maybe somehow the energy is drained from the undeadness and poured into the actual bringing back? And how does the knife play into it? Also, it\u2019s entirely possible that all the side effects of using each of the gloves and the knife have to do with the fact that they might have always been used in the wrong way by Torchwood? Do they come from the same dimension as the weavils? How did Jack know exactly how long ago the first glove came through the rift? Did he watch it fall into the Bay all that time ago? So many questions. Any thoughts? I\u2019m genuinely curious. If you\u2019ve got any suggestions, I\u2019m all ears.<\/p>\n

Also, Life Knife? It kinda brings death and misery, so I would\u2019ve gone with Strife Knife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. I\u2019m not entirely sold on Jack\u2019s kiss of life thing. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything other that Barrowman\u2019s headcanon. If it works, why didn\u2019t he try it on Owen, or Tosh? Or anyone other than Ianto? (Maybe he did, and I forgot about it. There are loads of episodes I\u2019ve only seen once, so it\u2019s entirely possible I don\u2019t remember something.) Speaking of, I don\u2019t think Ianto was anything other than unconscious when the cyberwoman threw him on the ground. For one thing, Jack tried slapping him awake, which you don\u2019t do with dead(ish) people. (Well, you hopefully don\u2019t. If you do, what the bloody hell is wrong with you?) I think he kissed him to keep him silent when he woke up, which is kinda exactly what happened. (And also because he\u2019s not above using any chance to grope and otherwise inappropriately behave towards people, so that\u2019s not surprising at all.)<\/p>\n

3. If the Doctor hadn\u2019t messed with Jack\u2019s teleporter \/ vortex manipulator, Jack could\u2019ve used it to teleport Ianto out of the Thames House. Thanks, Doc.<\/p>\n

4. Gwen is a much better team leader than Jack. While she was leading the team, they seemed to be more of a unit. She wasn\u2019t keeping secrets from them. They actually seemed happier. She made Ianto a field agent and made the point of asking him to do the clean-up instead of just expecting it. (I firmly believe that him becoming more confident between series 1 and 2 has to do with Gwen and her gentle leading and friendship.) Even Owen seemed to be less of a prat under her leadership. Maybe it\u2019s because they actually chose her? Because Jack was made leader simply because there was no one else left, and his leading amounts to not letting anybody question his decisions and keeping secrets from his team. And looking the most impressive of the lot, but that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n

5. That said, he\u2019s the most forgiving boss I\u2019ve ever come across (I\u2019m sorry for that terrible rhyme). You almost unleash a cyberman on the world? Doesn\u2019t matter, you\u2019re totally forgiven. You bring a dangerous alien into the base? Doesn\u2019t matter, you\u2019re forgiven. (If I remember correctly, Tosh didn\u2019t even get a reprimand for that one) You shoot your boss in the head<\/i>, without knowing that he will come back? Doesn\u2019t matter, you\u2019re totally and completely forgiven. I guess when one lives forever, grudges seem pointless. Also, and now I\u2019m depressing myself, Jack is so desperate for someone to accept him that he\u2019s willing to forgive being killed if it means they won\u2019t think he\u2019s a freak. Also, what it is with Torchwood and shooting their boss in the head? Two out of five people did it. Huh.<\/p>\n

6. I admit I have major problems with spatial orientation – I cannot read a map, and I never have any sense of where I am, and it\u2019s so frustrating because in my mind, all the streets are always at a right angle to each other, even though I know it cannot possibly be true – but I can\u2019t be the only one who cannot understand the layout of the hub, can I? I just don\u2019t get it. It\u2019s like Hogwarts.<\/p>\n

7. When Ianto propositions Jack with a stopwatch, it foreshadows the fact that their time together will be measured in seconds, as far as the bigger picture it concerned. That is also depressing.<\/p>\n

8. I think that they made Tosh and Own too young. They both look older than their alleged age, especially Owen (I don\u2019t know how old the actors are, but I think they are quite a bit older than their characters), and they act it. I don\u2019t understand why they felt the need to make them that young. It can\u2019t have been for sympathy, because there\u2019s not much difference in terms of a sense of waste between someone dying in their late twenties or in their early or mid thirties. It\u2019s still too soon, and the audience would\u2019ve got the point one way or another.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll probably have quite a few more of these. I think about this stuff a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

flaglesspiracy: \u2026 because it\u2019s the middle of the night and I simply cannot read any more articles for work and I cannot sleep and I\u2019m somehow both hyper and down at the same time. I\u2019m too stressed. Anyway. 1. I keep thinking about what would happen if one were to use both resurrection gloves at … <\/p>\n

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