Review: Torchwood S2 07 Dead Man Walking

[crabby_lioness]

Why do so many wonderful character moments have to be trapped inside such a wretched plot?

About halfway through my husband said, "I hope they're going somewhere with to this.  It's nice and creepy."  When it was all over I asked him what he thought about it.  "It was different."

"Yeah, but was it creepy-with-a-point or creepy-but-pointless?"

He

Comments

[the_ladyj]

Great review again, you really have a way of working out all plot and character angels.

I enjoyed how Jack kept holding on to Owen, especially after Adam. It really shows how this season has changed (Jack as much as the tone of the show) compared to last season.

Although what keeps bugging me:
At the end of the episode in which Owen fights the weevil (can't for the love of god remember its name) he is down at the cells and growls at the weevil who reacts almost the same way he did in this episode. Was that intentional? Is it supposed to tell us something, like "Smokey" (loving that name) choose Owen back then already?

[crabby_lioness]

According to the producers and the actors, that scene was originally supposed to be what I call a "Jane Goodall moment", i.e. showing how well Owen could understand and use Weevil body language. But when they saw it on film, they decided there might be more to it than that and wrote a sequel for S2. I think that's supposed to be this episode.

[antelope_writes]

The biggest thing I got out of this episode was a major, major continuation in the construction of Owen as Jack-lite. Jack was the immortal Big Damn Hero, and now Owen is the immortal (or something like that) Big Damn Hero. The scene fighting off Hunger (which is what Owen called it) reminded me distinctly of Jack and Abbadon.

[crabby_lioness]

I don't mind Owen as Jack-lite, but they need more variety in the stories.

[eumenidis]

I gather that shows with a supernatural motif aren't common in British TV & that it's felt that the TW writers are having fun with tropes that are new & different to them. My feeling is that if so, the TW writers have gone berserk with their new toys, & as for the kid with the cards: Stephen King strikes again

[crabby_lioness]

Boy, there really *are* some stupid aliens/demons who pass through Cardiff. I begin to wonder if they're being sent there for the humans to finish off.

It's starting to look that way.

[eumenidis]

Hmph. Perhaps Jack should be demanding TW be paid a wage...

[petty_shine]

There were certainly quite a few plot holes and all that from what we expect from Torchwood - not that I dont love the show, I cant get enough of it.
Though,
Anyone else notice the inside joke when Ianto ran and grabbed the hockey stick? I just thought this was hilarious, and then I remembered back to "Sleeper" with Jack

"..The only reason I can think of for keeping sports equipment in the bedroom"
"well you should come arount to mine for a game of hockey some time"

So, imagining what Jack and Ianto have been up to, Jack really must keep hockey sticks in his bedroom and Ianto knew right were to find them. Which is really backed up by Ianto's Avant Garde comment

Then again, maybe Im just wishing more into Janto.

[crabby_lioness]

The hockey stick was the only intentionally funny part of the episode, aside from Owen's snark.

[crabby_lioness]

Torchwood is stingy with explanations at times.