Science and Torchwood
Jan. 24th, 2007 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Not the two in combo because, boy would that ever not work.
Just seen Torchwood part 12, and am DL part 13. So my traditional spoiler warning still applies
This is what I mean when I say that when TW gets it right, it gets it so very right that I forgive them everything else. Everyone was spot on, Owen the slappable and his oh so human and very forgivable and unforgivable determination to get Dianne back by possibly killing everyone else on the planet. Oh Owen, you're an idiot. A sneaky, well written one, I grant you, but still...
And Ianto and the fact that when he first threatened Owen the gun was on its safety catch and him and Owen and the hatred of a thousand suns. And eeee!
Gwen was just right and I loved how she hugged both of them at the end and never stopped trying. And how worried she was for Tosh and the blood (which didn't look real but we'll ignore that right now, right?).
Tosh was just so wonderful from talking about her grandad, to 'watch out for my laptop', to her reactions and her resourcefulness to everything. Tosh is wonderful.
I loved how the background characters were cliches but not too thin and the annoying Londoner airman's girl-friend was spot on, because this was 1941 and being Asian would have made you stand out and I love how they did actually show this and Tosh was rightfully worried because her Grandad had told her his stories and Jack would have protected her.
The real Captain Jack Harkness really was too good a man to have his name pinched by a con-artist. I love how our Jack, when we first met him, wouldn't have given a damn, but he does now. My how he's changed.
I'm also amused that I was right and wherever he's from was a war-torn planet.
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, whatever will we do with you? I love how he misses the '40s totally and utterly and still carries on, and his reactions, and that he told him and that that was the one thing that broke him, that he could save everyone else in the room except the better Captain Jack.
And Toshiko doing exactly the right thing at the right moment and if they kill her off I will not be pleased. Please, please, please don't kill her off.
Thoughts may have been pushing it a little. Unconnected high pitched noises may be a more appropriate description.
The science thing is possibly even more fun. If less high-pitched. One of the people that lectured me as an under-grad has published a paper that's been picked up on the press, possibly because it suggests that a certain Y chromosome has migrated from Africa, probably through male black slaves and it suggests a larger amount of mixing than previously suggested.
There's been an interesting discussion over on nhw's journal which has lead to lots of interesting links. I am having fun.
Just seen Torchwood part 12, and am DL part 13. So my traditional spoiler warning still applies
This is what I mean when I say that when TW gets it right, it gets it so very right that I forgive them everything else. Everyone was spot on, Owen the slappable and his oh so human and very forgivable and unforgivable determination to get Dianne back by possibly killing everyone else on the planet. Oh Owen, you're an idiot. A sneaky, well written one, I grant you, but still...
And Ianto and the fact that when he first threatened Owen the gun was on its safety catch and him and Owen and the hatred of a thousand suns. And eeee!
Gwen was just right and I loved how she hugged both of them at the end and never stopped trying. And how worried she was for Tosh and the blood (which didn't look real but we'll ignore that right now, right?).
Tosh was just so wonderful from talking about her grandad, to 'watch out for my laptop', to her reactions and her resourcefulness to everything. Tosh is wonderful.
I loved how the background characters were cliches but not too thin and the annoying Londoner airman's girl-friend was spot on, because this was 1941 and being Asian would have made you stand out and I love how they did actually show this and Tosh was rightfully worried because her Grandad had told her his stories and Jack would have protected her.
The real Captain Jack Harkness really was too good a man to have his name pinched by a con-artist. I love how our Jack, when we first met him, wouldn't have given a damn, but he does now. My how he's changed.
I'm also amused that I was right and wherever he's from was a war-torn planet.
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, whatever will we do with you? I love how he misses the '40s totally and utterly and still carries on, and his reactions, and that he told him and that that was the one thing that broke him, that he could save everyone else in the room except the better Captain Jack.
And Toshiko doing exactly the right thing at the right moment and if they kill her off I will not be pleased. Please, please, please don't kill her off.
Thoughts may have been pushing it a little. Unconnected high pitched noises may be a more appropriate description.
The science thing is possibly even more fun. If less high-pitched. One of the people that lectured me as an under-grad has published a paper that's been picked up on the press, possibly because it suggests that a certain Y chromosome has migrated from Africa, probably through male black slaves and it suggests a larger amount of mixing than previously suggested.
There's been an interesting discussion over on nhw's journal which has lead to lots of interesting links. I am having fun.
