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Actually, you know what I hated? All the speeches that Jack gives throughout this whenever he's talking about being in the travelling carnival. They sound like he's reading from a textbook, and Barrowman even develops this weird expression like he knows he's reading from a textbook, and he can't be bothered to sell it.
I did like the Mermaid Girl; this was a lesser case of wanting the bad guys to win, more like I would have actually enjoyed the show being almost exclusively from their perspective, though that would fuck with the Torchwood structure.
Poor Ianto. It must be difficult, when anything remotely resembling the spotlight hits you and Jack Bloody Harkness jumps right in front of you and hogs it all. That never happens to Gwen. I keep expecting Tom Stoppard to pen an episode where Tosh and Ianto do things while everyone else saves the day, every entrance an exit sort of thing. Only people would whine and moan that the episode really just ripped off Buffy and "The Zeppo." Ianto and Tosh would quietly have all the last vestiges of their personalities drain away.
The Carnivale point, WP, is totally spot on, even if they had no idea what they were doing.
But, between this episode and the fairies one from Series 1, we know one fun fact about Torchwood: they spend most of their time going to poorly-attended "educational" presentations that end in crackpot adventures. |
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