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I tell you what: this show has generally gotten stunningly lucky with its guest stars. The woman who played Beth was very very good, I thought, and the mass murdering guy managed to sell some serious cheese and make it play.
Living in Cardiff must be difficult. The rest of Britain gives you no respect, there's a rift in time that opens up and disgorges something distressing a few times a year, and stray aliens come by, kill the mayor, blow up City Hall and various facilities real good. (It would be interesting to see how they explain it. "Um ... terrorists! Really, terrorists! That's the ticket!")
Ianto really is getting all the best lines this year. Dating the boss must be terribly liberating, or something; his character was much more buttoned down last season (granted, having your girlfriend Cyberized and then killed in front of you will do that). Strangely, the fact that he's got all the great lines (and great clothes, for that matter) is highlighting the fact that they don't quite know what to do with him. Everyone else does stuff, and he stands around making with the snappy patter. (One wonders if Jack and Ianto are still doing the deed in Jack's office, or do they decamp to Ianto's place every now and again. And how bad are Jack's manners in bed? What precisely constitutes "bad manners in bed" anyway?) (And the thought of sex with Owen does make the end of the world seem that much more depressing, doesn't it?) I do wish this show would stop making Toshiko look vaguely incompetent; that bit with the CB radio, for example... (yes, yes, comic timing -- albeit in a scene that really couldn't use it)
It looked right up until the very end as though they'd set up a story arc for the season -- and yes, I know that they set up what looks like a smaller one with Jack and John in the first episode. This had/has the potential to be something bigger than that. I'm kind of sorry they didn't, except that having the fifth Doctor Who/Torchwood "invasion of Earth" story arc in four years really would have been a bit much. (This is, of course, entirely ignoring the fact that there's probably going to be another Invasion of Earth storyline from Doctor Who. No spoilers -- I haven't heard anything at all about the upcoming season -- it's just what they do.) That said, this type of invasion would have been a very different thing, with all the sleeper cells present and unaware.
There is, of course, the intriguing question of "why here?" Seriously, ANOTHER invasion force? This backwater planet is THAT important to creatures that aren't Cybermen or Daleks? Really?
A different sort of fun, much more serious than the last episode, and not so much with the exuberantly cheesy badness. I do hope we don't have to deal with Jack dying or being almost but not quite murdered in every single episode this season, though.
Living in Cardiff must be difficult. The rest of Britain gives you no respect, there's a rift in time that opens up and disgorges something distressing a few times a year, and stray aliens come by, kill the mayor, blow up City Hall and various facilities real good. (It would be interesting to see how they explain it. "Um ... terrorists! Really, terrorists! That's the ticket!")
Ianto really is getting all the best lines this year. Dating the boss must be terribly liberating, or something; his character was much more buttoned down last season (granted, having your girlfriend Cyberized and then killed in front of you will do that). Strangely, the fact that he's got all the great lines (and great clothes, for that matter) is highlighting the fact that they don't quite know what to do with him. Everyone else does stuff, and he stands around making with the snappy patter. (One wonders if Jack and Ianto are still doing the deed in Jack's office, or do they decamp to Ianto's place every now and again. And how bad are Jack's manners in bed? What precisely constitutes "bad manners in bed" anyway?) (And the thought of sex with Owen does make the end of the world seem that much more depressing, doesn't it?) I do wish this show would stop making Toshiko look vaguely incompetent; that bit with the CB radio, for example... (yes, yes, comic timing -- albeit in a scene that really couldn't use it)
It looked right up until the very end as though they'd set up a story arc for the season -- and yes, I know that they set up what looks like a smaller one with Jack and John in the first episode. This had/has the potential to be something bigger than that. I'm kind of sorry they didn't, except that having the fifth Doctor Who/Torchwood "invasion of Earth" story arc in four years really would have been a bit much. (This is, of course, entirely ignoring the fact that there's probably going to be another Invasion of Earth storyline from Doctor Who. No spoilers -- I haven't heard anything at all about the upcoming season -- it's just what they do.) That said, this type of invasion would have been a very different thing, with all the sleeper cells present and unaware.
There is, of course, the intriguing question of "why here?" Seriously, ANOTHER invasion force? This backwater planet is THAT important to creatures that aren't Cybermen or Daleks? Really?
A different sort of fun, much more serious than the last episode, and not so much with the exuberantly cheesy badness. I do hope we don't have to deal with Jack dying or being almost but not quite murdered in every single episode this season, though.
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I think what we really need here is a crossover fic from the POV of someone who's just moved from Sunnydale to Cardiff.
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