I bet he thinks this post is about him
I’ve been watching Torchwood. I never saw the episodes of Doctor Who that had Captain Jack’s character, but I still had a clue who he was or what was going on, at least to some degree.
I had a little trouble getting into it at first. The writing is very different than anything I’m used to. Things tend to move quickly and sometimes storylines have a bizarre factor I can’t even explain*. All at once, the whole show can be under- and over-dramatic. That said, it is clearly a character driven show and their relationships are far more important than the details, scenes or storylines. It’s a lot like Buffy in that sense, and you’ll either love it or hate it.
And I love it. Gorl PLEASE**, do you think I would whip out a Buffy reference if I didn’t? You don’t know me like that! I am insanely in love with Captain Jack and John Barrowman. Gods, I want him to scoop me up and hold me up against his person as I weep uncontrollably and he’ll caress the back of my velour head and tell me it’s all gonna be okay and for once in my life, I’ll believe him, because he just came back from the dead again, as all hot men should do after you murder them in a crime of passion even though all you really wanted was to fill his gaint void because you love him sooooooo much. Sigh.
And - ack - Gwen and Owen are characters that all too often manage to be completely intolerable. And yet they’re lovable. Tosh and Ianto are adorable. I’ve only seen the first season, but I have the second downloading at the moment. Should be done by tomorrow. I’m disappointed to read that the third will be more of a mini-series. I’m not down with that. But there are books and I still have to see CJ’s Doctor Who epis, so that’ll keep me sated for a while.
* - I could be ruined by Lost. It was the only tv show I gave a shit about for a while, and it derailed for so long that I’m not sure I can ever be a target demographic again.
** - I tried to find John Barrowman’s latest album online and couldn’t so I downloaded it illegally and now I sit here listening to it feeling like I have ascended to a new level of gayness and that maybe tomorrow when I get up I’ll open my eyes and see the world with my new Rainbow Vision®™. And maybe it’ll have picture-in-picture and one channel can always be Captain Jack. I do have the attention span for that, for what it’s worth.
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Jack of Doctor Who is rather different from Jack of Torchwood; he is — dare I say it? — happy. Ish. Happyish.
But then who wouldn’t be, to get to spend time around Eccleston or that sexy little squid Tennant?
(What, doesn’t everyone describe Tennant as cephalopodesque? All those arms, and the waving them about and such. Also: the shouting. Although squid don’t usually shout. In my experience.)
(Disclaimer: not celphalopodist-ist.)
Comment by Jon — June 21, 2008 @ 7:01 am
Mmmmm….Rainbow Vision ™. John Barrowman doing Cole Porter is one of my favorite things in the whole wide iPod.
Comment by Michael — June 22, 2008 @ 10:53 am
PS I did.
Comment by Michael — June 23, 2008 @ 12:05 pm