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So Owen's transformation to Death taken care of by the team's actions... he's still ''dead'', but around and asking to be put to use. I wonder how long he'll stay this way, as it really is a take on a character you just wouldn't get to see in most shows. As Owen said, he can no longer fart, drink, or have sex, so life will be much less interesting. As Jack pointed out, he should avoid even slight injuries because they're not going to heal on a dead man. | So Owen's transformation to Death taken care of by the team's actions... he's still ''dead'', but around and asking to be put to use. I wonder how long he'll stay this way, as it really is a take on a character you just wouldn't get to see in most shows. As Owen said, he can no longer fart, drink, or have sex, so life will be much less interesting. As Jack pointed out, he should avoid even slight injuries because they're not going to heal on a dead man. | ||
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208: '''A Day in the Death''' ''[[2008]] [[March 15]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-03-16) The big focus is on Owen trying to get back to his regular life, even though he's now not-living an irregular death. His foods and other health products of his house attract him by habit, for instance, so he eventually tosses it all out. He doesn't seem to have much in the way of tactile sensation anymore, so he carelessly cuts his hand with a scalpel. A wound that won't bleed, but won't heal either, and will require indefinite frequent repair on his part. | |||
With Martha Jones still filling in the Torchwood doctor role, the team is still working on a regular mystery in the background while we focus on Owen, but of course eventually they have a need for him: to get around heat sensors on a property. And who does Owen find when he sneaks all the way in? Not someone so dangerous, but merely an old man afraid of dying who thinks Owen can't understand his fears. Wa wa waaaa. | |||
Didn't get a good idea of what the mysterious device was, though... or why Owen was carrying it around outside of the Hub afterward, for the shell story with the woman contemplating suicide. | |||
Aaaand Martha Jones is off. | |||
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209: '''Something Borrowed''' ''[[2008]] [[March 22]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-03-23) Rhys is badaass; Gwen an idiot. So she ''wants'' to go through her marriage even with a weird ultra-fast alien bite pregnancy going on, sure. But she didn't consider at all the length of the deception she'd have to go about it to everyone, not only at first explaining why she was pregnant without telling anyone, but later why it would be gone without breaking their hearts. Rhys on the other hand wants her safe, and later gets thiiiis close to taking a chainsaw to an advancing monster, and even has the nerve-wracking task of using the singularity scalpel on his wife-to-be. He even gets away with punching Jack in the mouth after Jack calls the real version of Rhys's mother some foul words rather than the shapeshifter version as he'd intended. | |||
Gwen is also icky for again getting into her feelings for Jack and nearly kissing him on her wedding day... though of course it turns out to be the shapeshifter. It seems like the reason she wanted to rush into this wedding was so she wouldn't have a chance to change her mind. | |||
I like the name Nostrovite for the shapeshifting aliens. Sounds like a relation to Nosferatu. | |||
I wondered what they'd do with the wedding guests seeing so much... and indeed, they retconned them all! Large scale, that one! | |||
So... Jack was married long ago? Or maybe he just treasures a novelty photo for kicks. | |||
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