Torchwood 2x04: Meat

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:56 pm

Blegh. Not too bad by TW standards, but Gwen's hystrionics were really starting to get up my nose by the end of it.

Also, how the hell were they planning to get that thing out of the warehouse in one piece?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:59 pm

Damnit, Seafort, you beat me by one minute! One minute!

I feel the old urge to punch Gwen in the face returning........

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:04 pm

I know the feeling. After about the fourth or fifth headless-chicken routine I was literally shouting at the TV for her to shut the fuck up. Couldn't they have hired someone a bit less irritating? Bonnie Langford maybe?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:06 pm

I don't think it would be possible to have hired anyone more annoying than her.

Something I didn't catch; why did the giant monster thing freak out at the end?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:12 pm

The impression I got was that it freaked out due to all the shooting (I think some shots hit it), and for some reason the usual sedatives weren't strong enough to disable it once it was freaked. Maybe something to do with its adrenalin being too powerful for the drugs to counteract?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:15 pm

Ah, right. So why did that necesitate killing it? Could they not just wait till it calmed down?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:25 pm

The way it was thrashing about it would probably have killed Jack (at least temporarily) Gwen (not seeing the downside given her screeching) and Rhys (who seemed to have more sense and initiative in this episode than the whole team displayed in S1) before it settled down.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:44 pm

And they couldn't just......move, or something?

Also, did it seem incredibly incompetant of Gwen and Jack that they didn't notice the big silver car following them for what was probably a half an hour or so?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:55 pm

Rochey wrote:And they couldn't just......move, or something?

It looked like they were trapped between the alien and the big pile of boxes that were sitting in the alien's pen for some obscure reason. Plus neither Rhys nor Gwen were in any shape to move - the former because he'd been shot, the latter because she was too busy panicking.

Also, did it seem incredibly incompetant of Gwen and Jack that they didn't notice the big silver car following them for what was probably a half an hour or so?

True, plus there's the question of why they didn't go in as planned on their first visit, rather than dither about wondering what Rhys was doing. I'd also have thought that even if Jack didn't twig that they were being followed (strange since he's usually the only one of them with any nouse) Gwen would have recognised her own fiance's car.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:37 pm

It looked like they were trapped between the alien and the big pile of boxes that were sitting in the alien's pen for some obscure reason. Plus neither Rhys nor Gwen were in any shape to move - the former because he'd been shot, the latter because she was too busy panicking.

Ah, right then.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:31 pm

Loved some of the dialogue in this one.

"We could feed the world!"
"We could release a single."

"Do I show off?"
"A bit."

"This is QUITE homo-erotic."