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Gwen has the worst first day on a job ever, while Owen continues to be sleazy.
Torchwood has been around for so long (it was commissioned by Queen Victoria) that I somehow keep expecting the staff to be more professional. Sometimes they radiate this air of competence and teamwork, but it never lasts long and makes the times they act like idiots all the more glaring. I can forgive Gwen this time because it's her first day and she's truly clueless, but the others have no excuse.
When Owen sees Carys making out with Gwen in the cell, his first reaction is to stare at the hotness of two chicks getting it on before calling Jack and Tosh over to look. Then the three of them just stand there and stare for awhile, even though they've seen the tape of Matt dying from having sex with the alien-possessed Carys. Even after Jack and Tosh kick their butts in gear to go help Gwen, Owen's first thought is to hit the record button on the CCTV feed for his later viewing pleasure. Even after all that, Owen still manages to fall for Carys and her pheromones and allows her to escape. My Owen hate continues to grow.
I realize that the people who make Torchwood consider it a much more adult show than its parent, Doctor Who, but there are times I get this feeling like there are a bunch of guys in a room somewhere going, "Let's have an episode about a girl who needs sex to survive" and "We had two girls kissing," followed by much tittering. It's just seems like it's there for the shock value, rather than growing organically out of a set of circumstances. I'm probably not explaining this well, but every time they have something like a girl screwing a guy to death on this show, I keep hearing Beavis and Butthead snorting in the back of my head. I don't want to feel like that, especially since I think they handle Jack's gleeful pansexuality pretty well. I haven't seen a character so comfortable with his or her sexuality in ages. So many TV shows have characters sleeping with other characters who make them miserable. Jack clearly thinks sex is great fun, and he seems to make it clear to his partners that their encounter is going to be a one-time event for the sheer joy of it, rather than stringing them along or manipulating them into bed. I think that's why Jack being such a slut puppy doesn't bother me like it does with Owen. Owen just wants to get himself off and he doesn't even care if his partner is willing (see the pheromone-induced date rape in "Everything Changes"), while Jack makes sure his partner is having just as much fun as he is.
Jack has two of my favorite lines in this ep. When Toshiko sees Gwen snogging Carys, her first thought is, "I thought she had a boyfriend." Jack's response is typical Jack: "You people and your quaint little categories." The other line is when they were tracking the escaped Carys by heading to her boyfriend's. She just had the one. Jack summed up the ease of that search with, "Lucky she's young. Work your way through my back catalog and we'll be here 'til the sun explodes." Sometimes I wish they spun off Capt. Jack into a series that covered the time period before he met the Doctor. He's certainly led a full life. And he's so much more interesting than the poeple he works with.
Torchwood has been around for so long (it was commissioned by Queen Victoria) that I somehow keep expecting the staff to be more professional. Sometimes they radiate this air of competence and teamwork, but it never lasts long and makes the times they act like idiots all the more glaring. I can forgive Gwen this time because it's her first day and she's truly clueless, but the others have no excuse.
When Owen sees Carys making out with Gwen in the cell, his first reaction is to stare at the hotness of two chicks getting it on before calling Jack and Tosh over to look. Then the three of them just stand there and stare for awhile, even though they've seen the tape of Matt dying from having sex with the alien-possessed Carys. Even after Jack and Tosh kick their butts in gear to go help Gwen, Owen's first thought is to hit the record button on the CCTV feed for his later viewing pleasure. Even after all that, Owen still manages to fall for Carys and her pheromones and allows her to escape. My Owen hate continues to grow.
I realize that the people who make Torchwood consider it a much more adult show than its parent, Doctor Who, but there are times I get this feeling like there are a bunch of guys in a room somewhere going, "Let's have an episode about a girl who needs sex to survive" and "We had two girls kissing," followed by much tittering. It's just seems like it's there for the shock value, rather than growing organically out of a set of circumstances. I'm probably not explaining this well, but every time they have something like a girl screwing a guy to death on this show, I keep hearing Beavis and Butthead snorting in the back of my head. I don't want to feel like that, especially since I think they handle Jack's gleeful pansexuality pretty well. I haven't seen a character so comfortable with his or her sexuality in ages. So many TV shows have characters sleeping with other characters who make them miserable. Jack clearly thinks sex is great fun, and he seems to make it clear to his partners that their encounter is going to be a one-time event for the sheer joy of it, rather than stringing them along or manipulating them into bed. I think that's why Jack being such a slut puppy doesn't bother me like it does with Owen. Owen just wants to get himself off and he doesn't even care if his partner is willing (see the pheromone-induced date rape in "Everything Changes"), while Jack makes sure his partner is having just as much fun as he is.
Jack has two of my favorite lines in this ep. When Toshiko sees Gwen snogging Carys, her first thought is, "I thought she had a boyfriend." Jack's response is typical Jack: "You people and your quaint little categories." The other line is when they were tracking the escaped Carys by heading to her boyfriend's. She just had the one. Jack summed up the ease of that search with, "Lucky she's young. Work your way through my back catalog and we'll be here 'til the sun explodes." Sometimes I wish they spun off Capt. Jack into a series that covered the time period before he met the Doctor. He's certainly led a full life. And he's so much more interesting than the poeple he works with.
