30 Days of Torchwood: Days Twenty, Twenty One, Twenty Two, and Twenty Three
Road to hell, good intentions, blah, blah, blah.
Let's catch up, shall we?
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty - Your favourite Owen moment
I like Owen best when he's complicated. There are times when sincerity and humanity pushes past his prickly affect. Not in a sentimental, "nice boy" sort of way. More like the times that he's too busy actually living to be sarky, like in Countrycide when he's treating Gwen's gunshot wound. He's not as one-dimensional as he'd like the world to think he is. That makes him really interesting to me. Owen's always doing things in layers.
His second death, in the control room at Turnmill, has a lot of this going on. He gets there by exploiting the fact that he's dead and has power over weevils. He shoos out the actual technician who's trying to go down with the ship. He's worried about Tosh. He delights in his successes. He also howls against his doom when he gets locked in the facility by a power surge. Owen knows death, knows he can't win, and is willing to scream in its face anyway.
But them he doesn't because Tosh asks him to. Those last few moments with her on the comm, talking about missed opportunities and Space Pig and everything still choke me up just reading the transcript.
He makes a good exit, our Owen. Raise a glass for him when you can.
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty One - Your favourite Toshiko moment
I love Tosh. I wish we'd seen more of her, and that she'd got more attention than she did.
One of my favorite things about her is that while she's quiet and unassuming and generally not really one to make the first move, she's got an extraordinary amount of passion going on under her buttoned down exterior.
(That's a lot of the fun in Adam, actually. We get a sort of Bizarro Torchwood where our characters' personalities are rewritten to show off traits they don't usually act out.)
In S2, Tosh actually seems to be trying to move past this and start taking risks. She's been carrying a torch for Owen, it hasn't paid off, and girlfriend is moving on a little. Not entirely -- Owen's got an open invitation, seems like -- but it's like she's decided to undo a couple of the metaphorical buttons and branch out.
JACK: It was two weeks.
JOHN: Except that two weeks was trapped in a time loop, so we were together for five years. It was like having a wife.
JACK: You were the wife.
JOHN: YOU were the wife.
JACK: No, YOU were the wife.
JOHN: Oh, but I was a good wife.
TOSH: I bet you were.
(Surprised looks all round.)
TOSH: What? Don't pretend you haven't noticed, he's cute.
That Tosh. Right there. Is awesome. And she does stuff like this ALL SEASON in S2.
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty Two - Who you’d shag, cliff and marry
Shag: I'm guessing I'm not allowed to say "all of them." To be fair, this changes from time to time, but today I'll go ahead and say Toshiko, because she's brilliant, she's sexy, and she's pretty flexible in her sexuality. I can work with that.
Cliff: Jack Harkness. Look, it's got to be someone, and you know he can walk away from it. If it helps, I can shag him beforehand. Or after. Or both.
Marry: Rhys Williams. He's loyal, he's great around the house, and have you seen Kai Owen after all that marathon training? Unf. I'll have some of that, please.
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty Three - Your favourite Torchwood website
Honestly? I haven't really got one. I've got a handful of haunts that I peek in on and lurk, but in terms of one favorite place, there really isn't a Cheers equivalent where I like to settle in and hang out. Maybe there should be. More likely, though, I'm meeting my needs pretty well with a combination of fannish friends, Twitter, etc.
Day 01 - Your favourite Torchwood member
Day 02 - Your favourite series
Day 03 - Your favourite episode
Day 04 - Your favourite alien
Day 05 - A scene that made you cry
Day 06 - A scene that made you smile
Day 07 - Your favourite quote
Day 08 - Your favourite cast member
Day 09 - An image that makes you smile like a git
Day 10 - Your favourite promo picture
Day 11 - Your favourite couple
Day 12 - Your favourite couple scene
Day 13 - A piece of music you love from the series
Day 14 - Something you’d like to re-write in the series
Day 15 - Behind the scene video that made you laugh the most
Day 16 - Your favourite outfit
Day 17 - Your favourite Gwen moment
Day 18 - Your favourite Ianto moment
Day 19 - Your favourite Jack moment
Day 20 - Your favourite Owen moment
Day 21 - Your favourite Toshiko moment
Day 22 - Who you’d shag, cliff and marry
Day 23 - Your favourite Torchwood website
Day 24 - A Torchwood geek moment you’ve had
Day 25 - Your favourite Torchwood fan-fiction
Day 26 - A piece of fan-art
Day 27 - A fan-video
Day 28 - Your favourite location or set
Day 29 - Where you think the series should continue to
Day 30 - Best Torchwood on Doctor Who moment
Let's catch up, shall we?
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty - Your favourite Owen moment
I like Owen best when he's complicated. There are times when sincerity and humanity pushes past his prickly affect. Not in a sentimental, "nice boy" sort of way. More like the times that he's too busy actually living to be sarky, like in Countrycide when he's treating Gwen's gunshot wound. He's not as one-dimensional as he'd like the world to think he is. That makes him really interesting to me. Owen's always doing things in layers.
His second death, in the control room at Turnmill, has a lot of this going on. He gets there by exploiting the fact that he's dead and has power over weevils. He shoos out the actual technician who's trying to go down with the ship. He's worried about Tosh. He delights in his successes. He also howls against his doom when he gets locked in the facility by a power surge. Owen knows death, knows he can't win, and is willing to scream in its face anyway.
But them he doesn't because Tosh asks him to. Those last few moments with her on the comm, talking about missed opportunities and Space Pig and everything still choke me up just reading the transcript.
He makes a good exit, our Owen. Raise a glass for him when you can.
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty One - Your favourite Toshiko moment
I love Tosh. I wish we'd seen more of her, and that she'd got more attention than she did.
One of my favorite things about her is that while she's quiet and unassuming and generally not really one to make the first move, she's got an extraordinary amount of passion going on under her buttoned down exterior.
(That's a lot of the fun in Adam, actually. We get a sort of Bizarro Torchwood where our characters' personalities are rewritten to show off traits they don't usually act out.)
In S2, Tosh actually seems to be trying to move past this and start taking risks. She's been carrying a torch for Owen, it hasn't paid off, and girlfriend is moving on a little. Not entirely -- Owen's got an open invitation, seems like -- but it's like she's decided to undo a couple of the metaphorical buttons and branch out.
JACK: It was two weeks.
JOHN: Except that two weeks was trapped in a time loop, so we were together for five years. It was like having a wife.
JACK: You were the wife.
JOHN: YOU were the wife.
JACK: No, YOU were the wife.
JOHN: Oh, but I was a good wife.
TOSH: I bet you were.
(Surprised looks all round.)
TOSH: What? Don't pretend you haven't noticed, he's cute.
That Tosh. Right there. Is awesome. And she does stuff like this ALL SEASON in S2.
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty Two - Who you’d shag, cliff and marry
Shag: I'm guessing I'm not allowed to say "all of them." To be fair, this changes from time to time, but today I'll go ahead and say Toshiko, because she's brilliant, she's sexy, and she's pretty flexible in her sexuality. I can work with that.
Cliff: Jack Harkness. Look, it's got to be someone, and you know he can walk away from it. If it helps, I can shag him beforehand. Or after. Or both.
Marry: Rhys Williams. He's loyal, he's great around the house, and have you seen Kai Owen after all that marathon training? Unf. I'll have some of that, please.
30 Days of Torchwood: Day Twenty Three - Your favourite Torchwood website
Honestly? I haven't really got one. I've got a handful of haunts that I peek in on and lurk, but in terms of one favorite place, there really isn't a Cheers equivalent where I like to settle in and hang out. Maybe there should be. More likely, though, I'm meeting my needs pretty well with a combination of fannish friends, Twitter, etc.
Day 01 - Your favourite Torchwood member
Day 02 - Your favourite series
Day 03 - Your favourite episode
Day 04 - Your favourite alien
Day 05 - A scene that made you cry
Day 06 - A scene that made you smile
Day 07 - Your favourite quote
Day 08 - Your favourite cast member
Day 09 - An image that makes you smile like a git
Day 10 - Your favourite promo picture
Day 11 - Your favourite couple
Day 12 - Your favourite couple scene
Day 13 - A piece of music you love from the series
Day 14 - Something you’d like to re-write in the series
Day 15 - Behind the scene video that made you laugh the most
Day 16 - Your favourite outfit
Day 17 - Your favourite Gwen moment
Day 18 - Your favourite Ianto moment
Day 19 - Your favourite Jack moment
Day 20 - Your favourite Owen moment
Day 21 - Your favourite Toshiko moment
Day 22 - Who you’d shag, cliff and marry
Day 23 - Your favourite Torchwood website
Day 24 - A Torchwood geek moment you’ve had
Day 25 - Your favourite Torchwood fan-fiction
Day 26 - A piece of fan-art
Day 27 - A fan-video
Day 28 - Your favourite location or set
Day 29 - Where you think the series should continue to
Day 30 - Best Torchwood on Doctor Who moment