Torchwood
I didn’t like Torchwood as much this week as last, but then you have to have a bigger, splashier ep to begin a season than you do for a follow up, so I guess it’s just to be expected.
I really did like Ianto this week. He’s changed so much from the shy, quiet, subservient guy he was in the first season. He had most of the funniest lines of the episode, too, and generally seemed more like he knew what was going on than any of the others. He was like the comic relief. I hope it continues into the season. I want to just put in a couple of the what I thought were Ianto’s best quotes, but there are so many . . . . well here are a few (which, by my definition, is way more than a couple):
Owen: How’d you know that?
Ianto: I know everything! And it says so on the bottom of the screen.
Jack: It’s just a mind probe.
Ianto: Remember what happened last time you used it?
Jack: That was different, and that species has extremely high blood pressure.
Ianto: Oh, right. Their heads must explode all the time.
Gwen: Jack, you can’t do this. What if you’re wrong? If she is human, it’ll kill her.
Jack: I’m not wrong. We have to find out what she is.
Toshiko: Take it easy, Jack. Stop at the first sign of trouble.
Ianto: Or the first sign of exploding.
Ianto: Just us, in this room. For as long as it takes. Terrifying.
Jack: Really?
Ianto: Absolutely. Shivers down my spine.
Jack: You don’t look scared.
Ianto: It passed.
Owen: And what if they can’t stop it.
Toshiko: They’ll stop it,
Owen: Yeah, but if they can’t.
Ianto: Then it’s all over
Owen: (pause) Let’s all have sex.
Ianto: And I thought the end of the world couldn’t get any worse.
One part that was very fun, at least for me, was when the aliens had knocked out all the phone system and they had to use a CB radio. Strangely enough, we just saw Live Free or Die Hard and pretty much the same thing happened, the phones were all out and they had to use the CB to communicate. I mean what’s up with that? When was the last time you saw or even thought of a CB radio and here it was on two different shows that I watched pretty much right in a row.
In any case, I really love this show. I’m super excited to see what else happens this season. So stay tuned.
