On the off chance that anyone on-list watches Torchwood...

Aug 13, 2008 23:25

...I'm midway through season 1, and I feel like a total prude, but...

What the HELL is with the stopwatch scene??

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roaming August 14 2008, 03:34:11 UTC
We watch Torchwood. Even have Torchwood viewing parties. Or did. :-) I'm not remembering "the stopwatch scene." Which episode is it? (Name)

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sidhe_etain August 14 2008, 03:37:15 UTC
They Keep Killing Suzie, where Suzie comes back to life.

At the end, Ianto tells Jack that he still has his stopwatch, and there's this hideously awkward sexual innuendo about Jack clearing everyone else out of there in 10 minutes or less.

Which makes NO sense since Jack just killed Ianto's girlfriend a few weeks ago, and not to mention a stopwatch for innuendo? Really? I am hard pressed to think of anything LESS innuendo-ish. Totally flummoxed me.

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roaming August 14 2008, 03:46:44 UTC
Well, the killing of Ianto's girlfriend doesn't mean Ianto and Jack aren't still having at eachother, which they've had a long history of, adn will do thourgh the seasons. (Oops, is that a spoiler? Nah, too obvious.) Jack will screw anything he finds attractive: male, female, alien. He's omni-sexual. Which I imagine one becomes when one travels galaxies and times and realizes all these boundaries we erect are meaningless in the larger scope of the universe.

As for the stopwatch, yeh, it was silly and sort of pointless, except as a way to announce "Hey, Jack and Ianto have sex! But we're just teasing you now, you'll get to see some real snogging in other episodes, so don't change channels!" Maybe we just don't get juvenile humor?

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sidhe_etain August 14 2008, 03:49:09 UTC
I knew that about Jack, but I guess the Ianto thing came totally out of left-field to me. I never noticed any sort of flirtation between the two of them at all, ever!

I guess I'm just used to shows like Babylon 5, where the smallest interaction with elusive clues leads to giant plot points later on...and I read too much (serious plotline) into it until I came online and googled "Torchwood Stopwatch" and realized "oh...they're having sex??"

LOL :)

So far I'm enjoying Torchwood, but I deeeefinitely prefer Dr Who.

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pixie_a_la_mode August 14 2008, 05:32:23 UTC
YAY TORCHWOOD! And the writer who does Torchwood also was the main writer for the U.K.'s queer as folk. :D

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sidhe_etain August 14 2008, 11:53:25 UTC
Never saw the UK's QAF, though I watched the American. :)

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