Yeah, it's really a shame that I have trouble recommending the first episode as anybody's introduction to Torchwood due to the alien roofies, since (despite the roughness) there really are some nice scenes in it, and a lot of interesting background for what happens later.
Regarding the alien roofies, I also hate that the jokiness about sexual consent effectively camouflages the fact that Owen is canonically thrilled to go home with a girl he pulled in a bar and her boyfriend.
(I will definitely have recommendations there, by the way, when you're ready for them, if audio-only is a dramatic format you enjoy - it really isn't for me, but they are good enough I've made an exception for them.)
It is not one of my native formats, but spatch under normal circumstances writes/directs/acts in audio dramas as well as staged radio theater, so it has been demonstrated that I can acclimate to it if sufficiently motivated. I would certainly want recommendations just in case.
She is terrible, and tragic, and relatable, and even likable at times. I like that we see so much more of her in the audios than we got to see on the show.
That is a very good use of extended canon. I have most recently finished "They Keep Killing Suzie," which supplied some further and intriguing facets. Also I seem to like Indira Varma and I am trying to figure out where I could possibly have seen her before.
And also his instant sympathy for the girl who was killed, and his obsessive search for justice for her, even in the face of his teammates telling him to give up.
Yes. Which not incidentally helps a lot to recenter Owen from being a sexual creep: faced with a rape-murder, he's unequivocally on the girl's side.
Jack is really holding himself back from the team in season one, and then in late season one/season two he just gives up and decides to love these people, or rather, I guess, to admit that he already loves them, but that's one of those areas where knowing where it's headed is helpful in not hating him early on.
I don't know that it would have gone as far as hating him, but he's much more of a hard-ass and it's doing his team cohesion no favors. It doesn't feel accidental that three episodes so far have centered around characters choosing personal attachment (Ianto to Lisa, Tosh to Mary, Gwen to Suzie) over duty to Torchwood. I can see that's building toward "End of Days" when the entire team will open the Rift in joint defiance of Jack, but it also doesn't say much for his management skills at this point in his immortality.
[edit] Good news; speaking of "End of Days," it had desensitized considerably by this time around.
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Regarding the alien roofies, I also hate that the jokiness about sexual consent effectively camouflages the fact that Owen is canonically thrilled to go home with a girl he pulled in a bar and her boyfriend.
(I will definitely have recommendations there, by the way, when you're ready for them, if audio-only is a dramatic format you enjoy - it really isn't for me, but they are good enough I've made an exception for them.)
It is not one of my native formats, but
She is terrible, and tragic, and relatable, and even likable at times. I like that we see so much more of her in the audios than we got to see on the show.
That is a very good use of extended canon. I have most recently finished "They Keep Killing Suzie," which supplied some further and intriguing facets. Also I seem to like Indira Varma and I am trying to figure out where I could possibly have seen her before.
And also his instant sympathy for the girl who was killed, and his obsessive search for justice for her, even in the face of his teammates telling him to give up.
Yes. Which not incidentally helps a lot to recenter Owen from being a sexual creep: faced with a rape-murder, he's unequivocally on the girl's side.
Jack is really holding himself back from the team in season one, and then in late season one/season two he just gives up and decides to love these people, or rather, I guess, to admit that he already loves them, but that's one of those areas where knowing where it's headed is helpful in not hating him early on.
I don't know that it would have gone as far as hating him, but he's much more of a hard-ass and it's doing his team cohesion no favors. It doesn't feel accidental that three episodes so far have centered around characters choosing personal attachment (Ianto to Lisa, Tosh to Mary, Gwen to Suzie) over duty to Torchwood. I can see that's building toward "End of Days" when the entire team will open the Rift in joint defiance of Jack, but it also doesn't say much for his management skills at this point in his immortality.
[edit] Good news; speaking of "End of Days," it had desensitized considerably by this time around.