You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons

[giallarhorn]

Fun experiment- I've managed to ingest about a lot of coffee, which once I did all the math to work it all out, assuming that you were supposed to only use 1 tsp for every 6 fluid ounces of water and that every 4 fluid ounces equates to one cup and then factoring in that I was using somewhere between 2-3 times as much coffee in each pot, each which

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[phoenix_tears89]

Ok, so once again our lives are weirdly in sync. Not with the coffee thing-- with the Torchwood thing. I've never watched it before as I'd heard less than stellar reviews, but my sister sent me a guide to season 1 (with warnings and recommendations), so I started a few days ago. I'm not actually going to read this post until I'm caught up, though. :)

I had thought you had forgotten about this place entirely

[giallarhorn]

Clearly, this is another sign of our tendency towards synergistic obsessions kicking in again :D Though, to be completely fair, the above is about Miracle Day, which from what I can gleam doesn't really link too much back to the old Torchwood? But it motivated me enough to go and start downloading Season 1, which seems to be taking an awful long time in getting done. Cause I mean, John Barrowman. What could go wrong?

Also, I'd be really interested in seeing you with coffee :D And Andrew, but apparently that's not something he wants to ever repeat again.

Re: I had thought you had forgotten about this place entirely

[magic_7_words]

Weeell, there is a fair amount that can go wrong. I mean, I watched Rendition last night, and that was pretty bad. I'm not sure the producers of this show really understand the importance of John Barrowman's face in their appeal to a certain demographic. (It's not like he can really act, after all.)

Re: I had thought you had forgotten about this place entirely

[giallarhorn]

John Barrowman's face I guess was supposed to be covered up by the explosions and the drama and everything going on, and I think we're getting a pretty explicit scene with him, so they might be counting on that to help bank with the demographics...

[hecatescurse]

Sheesh, you weren't kidding when you said you drank a lot of coffee. XD

I hope the caffeine wears off soon!

And I still need to see the second episode of TW! But I've been tied up with this ficathon fic that I NEED TO FINISH BY THE 23RD SPODINFPODIS! *head explodes*

[giallarhorn]

Well, to be fair, I usually only go through one pot over the space of about 12 hours. 3 pots with more caffeine per cup over the same time period was a little extreme, haha.

The second episode was a little more focused on getting all the plot and setting down, but now we've got a fairly good idea of all the important and semi-important people and some ideas of who may be behind what and all that :D THAT'S ONLY LESS THAN A DAY AWAY ER GOOD LUCK

[anna_sg1]

18 cups. Of coffee. O_o

Bitching about Wales was the part that made me like Rex, ngl. :D

My theory is that Jill is an alieeeen. :D Not reall,y but right now, she totally could be.

AND OMG I DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEVER WATCHED TW! How come?

[giallarhorn]

A wee little bit too much coffee, I admit. Just a little bit too much. I feel like as if the effects are still wearing off, but meh.

That part just made me feel really bad for Rex :D I mean, he's got a hole through his chest that isn't healed yet, he gets stuck on a bridge and has to pay for it? You just kind of have to feel sorry for him. He's an odd sort of character in my mind, because he is kind of likable but at the same time, he did have Gwen separated from her baby =/

Jill does seem like the sort to be an alien, or something like the BBC Card Girl from Life On Mars. There's just something off putting about her and how she seems to be everywhere at once with all the important people...Could just be coincidence.

Haha, well, I always heard a lot of mixed and less than stellar comments from the people that I knew who watched it, and based on that, I never really felt the urge to get much into it =/ I'm working on rectifying this as soon as it finishes downloading, whenever that is.

[magic_7_words]

I know Jill said she worked in PR, but the doctor (small d! The woman) seemed to think she was a drug rep. I didn't catch all of her conversation with the doctor, but I had the sneaking suspicion her story changed somehow.

But I'm suspicious of those business cards. The fact that Danes destroyed his, and they made a big fuss over it, but then the doctor (small d! The capital D is apparently ingrained in my muscle memory now) kept hers... bad news.

[giallarhorn]

I guess PR and drug rep could be something similar, but I think that she mentioned she was working for a company in the talk with the doctor? I have a feeling she's knows a lot more than she lets on, or is somehow involved in what's going on.

I just took the business cards as, I don't know- a sign of how considering they were of her proposals? Danes ripped his up without second thought, and the doctor seems to be holding on so...

[magic_7_words]

And I'm sorry, but why do they all think Jack is mortal? Because he hurt himself? Everyone else in the world is hurting themselves and not healing, they're just not dying either. Granted, I prefer him being mortal to being just like everyone else, because it makes things more interesting, but really, guys?

Fixed point in time... two options I can think of.
1) Whatever did this to Earth is powerful enough to screw with Deeper Magic From Before the Dawn of Time. Unlikely, but not impossible.
2) If Jack dies in range of the morphic field, he'll be suspended that way (like everyone else's lives are suspended), and then when Gwen and Rex and Esther fix the problem, he'll snap back just like everyone else. They might pull this in the last episode or something.

[giallarhorn]

I guess cause Jack thinks he's mortal, and he seemed to almost die from the poisoning and I have no idea at all- I got the impression he sort of regenerated fairly quickly from small cuts and injuries? Though, that no one else is dying nor regenerating is a very odd state of things to be in.

I mean, if there was something powerful enough to screw with the Deus Ex Machina Magic of The Bad Wolf, then I feel like it'd have something more of an impact than just making every immortal (though, that is a fairly large impact).

I got the idea that the morphic field is a kind of constant thing around all organisms, so wouldn't it be that he'd die as normal, and once it gets fixed, he'd snap back to a fixed point in time and just regenerate back?

[magic_7_words]

Yeah, that's what I meant. "In range of the morphic field" only referred to Earth in 2011.

Telling, though (or maybe just typical) that Jack's description of a morphic field involves monkeys learning to use rocks as weapons, whereas the classic example is actually monkeys learning to use running water to wash the dirt off potatoes.

[giallarhorn]

That's true- to be fair, Jack's probably been around long enough to be just a little bit cynical as to regarding human society. I think it was mentioned somewhere that later on in the series, we get people getting classified into different categories of life?

[chocolatebomber]

your thought processes tend to sound like me on a single cup of coffee. I can't imagine what 18 would do to me. I could be called "the blur" or something.

Torchwood! I'm actually fairly impressed with Miracle Day. Children of Earth was amazing, so I was nervous about the fact that they are basically copying that and it wouldn't work out as well, but so far...SUCCESS.

[giallarhorn]

The flash! Haha, I actually got into a really bad habit when I was doing debate in high school where I'd just chug coffee before my rounds to make it harder for my opponents to keep up with me.

Wohoo! My only problem with it so far is that it feels very...disjointed and like not a lot's happened in two episodes, but I guess that's for viewers who are new to the series?