Torchwood #13

[msmemory_archive]

Thanks to original_terann who pointed out that Comcast had posted the Torchwood season finale. We watched it last night over supper. Yes, it's a tearjerker, and an angst factory. (OMG the fanfic this one will cause!) No, I'm not going to say why and spoil the fun.

Comments

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Trying to discuss this without spoilers:

Even though the press indicates that the events that take place in the final ep are going to be permanent changes, I can't help but wonder if one or the other will be somehow reversed or is otherwise not as it seems.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I will bet that we will see at least one of the "departed" characters again. Possibly two, or all three.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

I'm in a perpetual state of denial and have figured out exactly how one of the changes can be reversed since I have small casting spoilers for an interconnected show.

I'm probably clutching at straws, but I don't want to deal with the aftermath that we were given! *pout*

On the bright side it looks like one reoccuring character will continue to reoccur next year according to interviews with the actor who plays him! (this is not really a spoiler so much as speculation on the actors part)

editted to remove what looked like a spoiler on the reread.

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you were able to get it! I need to rewatch it; I missed a little bit of that last conversation.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I felt like the series lost its way — and certainly lost my interest — when it switched from science fiction to horror.

• Character dies and is resurrected with alien technology — I can buy that.
• Undead character cannot take on fuel for the biological machine, but the biological machine somehow keeps on working. — Um. Yeah, maybe that could work.
• Undead character can't breathe, but can still talk. — Give. Me. A. Break. The muscles still work for everything else, but he can't expand or contract his diaphragm and rib-cage?

A fictive universe has to have internal consistency for me to suspend my disbelief. And however much I may enjoy the rest of that fiction's elements, if you blow my suspension of disbelief, I'm outta here.

Now I'm probably willing to cut Torchwood more slack than I would most shows, not least because an episode early this season ("To the Last Man") was one of the best things I've ever seen. So if you're telling me that somehow they cleaned all this up and got back to science fiction after A Day in the Death, that would be welcome news, and I'd be willing to try to watch the rest of the season.

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I missed it, due to camping trip for work.
A hint??

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

If your cable has on-demand service, see if it's got this episode.

We get to see Spike again, also Jack's brother Gray (who has been nursing a big grudge against Jack). Owen and Tosh save the world. Rhys notices that Gwen is heroic.
Detailed summary available at:
http://danowen.blogspot.com/2008/04/torchwood-213-exit-wounds.html