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So... Jack was married long ago? Or maybe he just treasures a novelty photo for kicks. | So... Jack was married long ago? Or maybe he just treasures a novelty photo for kicks. | ||
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210: '''From Out of the Rain''' ''[[2008]] [[March 29]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-03-29) Probably the worst episode of the season yet. A standard monster-of-the-week episode where we don't really learn anything important about any of our continuing characters, so it could be excised without anyone being the wiser. | |||
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211: '''Adrift''' ''[[2008]] [[April 5]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-04-06) An interesting idea, but a few things left me wondering. Why the surprise that the rift takes things? We know of people/things going back through it intentionally; why ''wouldn't'' it happen by chance too? That's a hell of a lot of missing people for Cardiff; yet another thing that is strange that nobody in the outside world seems to take much notice of; it's like the Bermuda Triangle of mid-size British cities. Next, why did Jack need to keep it such a secret? I know it's a bit unsavory, but that's the kind of shit these people deal with day in and day out. I know Gwen is a bit of a bleeding heart on such matters, but he wouldn't have had objections before she joined the team, and even she came around once she saw the way things turned out. | |||
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212: '''Fragments''' ''[[2008]] [[April 12]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-04-13) I quite liked this episode. It felt like a clipshow of episodes from a Series 0 that doesn't exist. | |||
Jack's was especially great; I always love seeing distant-past Torchwood, and it makes sense that he originally became involved with them due to being hunted out by them as an oddity. What was it it said, though, something like 1400 deaths ago? Has this guy been dying every other week, or is there some bizarre event that had him dying a thousand times consecutively? | |||
In Toshiko's I noticed that it was "5 years ago" and Jack said he could clear her record after 5 years of working for him. Coincidence? Or will some episode next series deal with her now not being compelled to work there? It also made the UNIT prison seem pretty bleak. We know Tosh was a sympathetic case, but how many more are there in there that are stuck because they don't have a valuable skill that makes letting them out worthwhile? | |||
Ianto's was pretty straightforward, but I liked how it doubled as the pre-Torchwood story for the pterodactyl. Lisa wasn't mentioned, but I suppose that's his secret main motivation from this point on until her crappy, crappy [[Torchwood Series 1|series 1]] episode. | |||
Owen in pre-jerk form, losing his fiancée to an alien intruder into her brain that everyone stops believing happened; pretty sad. I also must say that his present-day situation in the bombed-out building had me worried. I wasn't worried any of the main characters would be dying, but in his zombie form any damage done to him would be basically irreversible. Luckily he seems to have made it out pretty well. | |||
So... Captain John is back, bringing this series back to where it started. And long-lost Gray with him, who does look a lot like his big brother... at least in not-zoomed-in blue hologram form. | |||
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213: '''Exit Wounds''' ''[[2008]] [[April 19]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-04-20) There have been more entertaining episodes, but not nearly any with as major or long-term effects for the show and the characters in it. From least to greatest... | |||
Cardiff is hit by big explosions and weevil attacks... and this time all the damage doesn't just go away in a magic time reverse. | |||
Jack finds Gray. Or rather the reverse, looking for revenge. And he GETS it. Planting Jack in the ground for a series of deaths that lasts nearly 1900 years, frozen another hundred... seems Jack is twice as old as the Doctor now, though the vast majority of that time was spent in a Cardiff grave. | |||
Owen and Toshiko. :( I really didn't see this coming; it's nice to not have things so major spoiled beforehand. Two gone from a core cast of five is a pretty damn big deal. | |||
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