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llywelaRealised that I haven't actually commented on episode 8 yet. They Keep Killing Suzie.
I really enjoyed watching this episode - it was well paced and held my attention, I loved having Suzie back for a bit and seeing the reactions of the rest of the team to her. That she'd be back was inevitable - I mean, why else would they show her body being stored back in the first episode?!
It is starting to bug me, though, that so many of the plots revolve around members of the team doing mindblowingly stupid things, like Ianto keeping a cyber(wo)man on the premises or Gwen in this episode smuggling Suzie out of the Hub for no good reason and thus endangering her own life. They did lead up to it, though, with her slowly bonding with the woman who once tried to kill her and who she accidentally brought back to life, but still. Does she not have any common sense? Having her empathy and sympathy overriding all her other instincts teeters perilously close to making her more a cipher than a character; she never seems to learn from her mistakes. Maybe that's the point.
Like I said - engrossing episode to watch, but probably best not to delve too deeply into the plot, since I remain to be convinced that Suzie could have in any foreseen and planned the sequence of events that would see her resurrected and set free. Nuh-uh. Especially since it was made clear that no one else could use the glove, and she had no way of knowing about Gwen or that it would work for her. It also bugged me that Suzie kept saying Gwen was better than her, since I don't see that at all - Suzie clearly knew her way around the place technically, whereas I'm still not sure what Gwen's function in the team is, exactly!
So many people going on about the Jack-Ianto thing, but I'm just not feeling it at all. Does nothing for me, and the build-up hasn't convinced me. *shrug*
Pretty sure I had other comments to make, but most of them have eluded me during the week.
I really enjoyed watching this episode - it was well paced and held my attention, I loved having Suzie back for a bit and seeing the reactions of the rest of the team to her. That she'd be back was inevitable - I mean, why else would they show her body being stored back in the first episode?!
It is starting to bug me, though, that so many of the plots revolve around members of the team doing mindblowingly stupid things, like Ianto keeping a cyber(wo)man on the premises or Gwen in this episode smuggling Suzie out of the Hub for no good reason and thus endangering her own life. They did lead up to it, though, with her slowly bonding with the woman who once tried to kill her and who she accidentally brought back to life, but still. Does she not have any common sense? Having her empathy and sympathy overriding all her other instincts teeters perilously close to making her more a cipher than a character; she never seems to learn from her mistakes. Maybe that's the point.
Like I said - engrossing episode to watch, but probably best not to delve too deeply into the plot, since I remain to be convinced that Suzie could have in any foreseen and planned the sequence of events that would see her resurrected and set free. Nuh-uh. Especially since it was made clear that no one else could use the glove, and she had no way of knowing about Gwen or that it would work for her. It also bugged me that Suzie kept saying Gwen was better than her, since I don't see that at all - Suzie clearly knew her way around the place technically, whereas I'm still not sure what Gwen's function in the team is, exactly!
So many people going on about the Jack-Ianto thing, but I'm just not feeling it at all. Does nothing for me, and the build-up hasn't convinced me. *shrug*
Pretty sure I had other comments to make, but most of them have eluded me during the week.
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Date: 2006-12-08 11:59 am (UTC)I quite liked this ep, but I'm afraid I was really rooting for Suzie to be the one to survive at the end. I'm tired of Gwen's wonderfulness already, and I think it would have shaken up the rest of the team to have her back - she's smart and clearly unhinged which makes her dangerous, and I think she's the only one of the team capable of being a challenge for Jack. Too late now though - or is it?
As for Jack-Ianto, I find it difficult to square with what was going on in ep 4, but maybe I need to go back and re-watch it. I suspect that what it actually is isn't what we're meant to think it is though, and just hope that it doesn't turn out to be a disappointment.
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Date: 2006-12-08 04:33 pm (UTC)It's actually starting to bug me less... This is becoming more and more of a soap opera (which, frankly, I kind of like) and so long as they don't try and *justify* the sloppiness (and make it some cunning plan that it's not) I don't really care. I'm having a fun time with all the melodrama. :)))