Jack’s up on the rooftop again, staring out at Cardiff. There’s been a major disturbance in his force. He’s still having flashbacks, and we learn that his mom survived, but when MiniJack finds her she seems more upset about his losing Grey than she is happy to see him. Jack and his issues just chill on the very, very tall structure, and I really dunno if that’s the safest place for him to be while in this mindset. Read More »
Rhys and Gwen are being sickeningly adorable as per usual. Also, Rhys is naked as per usual. He’s in bed and Gwen is getting ready for work, with her super-professional Converse All Stars on. I guess the low-tops say “these are serious shoes”? At least Gwen seems to think so. Read More »
I’m praying that this is the episode where Rhys and Gwen finally break up, even though that will never ever happen. Read More »
We open on … Rhys, for once. He’s driving and singing along to a jingle on the radio for Harwood’s. Rhys is such a dork. His cell starts ringing suddenly, when Rhys suddenly looks incredibly confused, like he just realized he’s in a car. He pulls over and answers, and someone named Ruth tells him there’s been an accident. He says he’ll be right over. One of the Harwood trucks has struck a car and flipped over on the highway, and Rhys introduces himself to the cop on duty as the manager of Harwood’s. This was the job he called Gwen about earlier when she was busy getting creeped out by Captain Spike. The driver is dead, and Rhys is horrified because he knew the guy. He tries to arrange to have the wreckage hauled away, but the cop says their good buddies Torchwood want to take a look at something suspicious in the truck first. I foresee awkwardness. Also, more drugs in Rhys’ future. Read More »
Owen wanders around the radiation wing while Gwen reads him a section of the old field report (which I guess wasn’t locked in the canister, because it hasn’t opened yet). She says the old Torchies said they saw something through the time rift, a “woman in strange armor, ripping a Union Jack.” Gwen says this seems weird, and maybe they’re wrong about the time shift, and maybe it’ll occur in the future when plate mail and unpatriotic displays of free speech are back in fashion. Read More »
Man, it’s nice to watch something without having to wait for a stream to load. Okay, we’re in teh old-timeys and a couple (though maybe not a couple couple) named Harriet and Gerald are running around on staircases with weird boxes hanging around their necks. The boxes look like the bastard offspring of an old camera and wind-up telephone, and have dials on top. My money says this is old-timey Torchwood. (If you don’t recall, Torchwood was started by Queen Victoria in the year hrmrmmmffffhmhmm in the Doctor Who episode Tooth and Claw). They seem to be looking for any weirdness in a big hospital, and accidentally turn the corner and crash into a nurse, who is annoyed that the ghost sightings are getting worse. She says she’s seen three today. Good to know the local yokels have always hated Torchwood. Read More »
I feel like I haven’t been writing much funny stuff this episode, but now I’m all sucked into it – only the shitty episodes are any fun to recap. Sorry! Read More »
We open on a couple sleeping, so I guess this episode is also fulfilling the promises made in the title. There’s a thump, and they wake up. “Someone’s in the living room,” the wife whispers. The husband asks if she’s going to go have a look and she makes this noise at him like YOU’RE the dude, dude! Spiders in the bathtub and prowlers in the living room are YOUR responsibility! Hubby sighs and grabs a cricket bat from under the bed, because apparently he thinks there are zombies in the living room. Although that would be awesome. Read More »
Talk about an episode that delivers on the title. So, I was so busy patting myself on the back in the first half of this recap for making an actual Buffy reference that I failed entirely to notice the fact that it was a DELIBERATE Buffy reference on the part of the writing staff because the guy who plays John Hart also played Spike on Buffy. I apologize, because despite several enthusiastic attempts by various friends to get me hooked on Whedon’s shows, like killing Jack or trying to get Hart to stop drinking, it just never really took. Read More »
Torchwood episode 2×01: kiss kiss bang bang
We now interrupt your classic Who already in progress. Why? Because frankly, I love Four to death (and even past that), but these old episodes are boring me to tears. So we’re heading back to Cardiff for a bit to hang out with some characters who have a much better chance of getting laid. Season Two …. starts now!
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