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Yej (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
#76: Jul 16th 2011 at 1:26:37 PM

[up][up] Jack will accidentally the new series, yes! grin

ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
TheGunheart Some nights I rule the world (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Some nights I rule the world
#78: Jul 16th 2011 at 11:53:33 PM

I don't think I've ever seen something manage to be as simultaneously hilarious and terrifying as the end of the second episode. On the one hand, Lyn for walking around with her neck snapped was creepy as hell, and that "offness" about the special effects put it right in the Uncanny Valley.

On the other hand, the look on Gwen's face was priceless, and I love how they just decided to drive away. Not even attempt to run her over, just drive off, possibly pretend they didn't see that.

Yej (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
#79: Jul 17th 2011 at 7:13:00 AM

[up][up] When I saw that post, the word "die" was missing. tongue

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JOZeldenrust Since: Jul, 2010
#81: Jul 17th 2011 at 3:31:16 PM

[up]You're a naughty one, aren't you?

ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
#82: Jul 17th 2011 at 4:17:09 PM

You know, if she can bring her head in the right position again, could whats-her-name heal the damage? I know the immortality does not include a healing factor, but what about normal healing. If your are able to survive a broken neck, could it just heal like a normal fracture?

edited 18th Jul '11 1:29:40 AM by ZheToralf

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Nyktos (srahc 84) eltit Since: Jan, 2001
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#83: Jul 17th 2011 at 6:53:41 PM

Second episode was good. Rex is still awesome, and I'm really liking Dr. Juarez too.

I guess it is.
Laura from Shintolin Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
#84: Jul 20th 2011 at 2:29:45 AM

That PR lady: she said she specialised in drug addictions, or something like that, right? It's probably entirely meaningless, and yet I can't help but imagine her somehow connected to the 456. Somehow.

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.
Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
Ding-ding! Going down...
#85: Jul 20th 2011 at 2:33:01 AM

Surely this process would result in there being less children, not more? Given that everyone's going to pretty mucb be in some kind of living hell by the end of it.

The Jilly was probably lieing, anyhow. She said she was something completely different to Banes, though I can't remember what. Still PR, but more of a manager, than a drug rep.

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Yej (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
#86: Jul 21st 2011 at 2:31:47 PM

She's possibly building a Xanatos Gambit, since it's mentioned she works for Phicorp.

OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#87: Jul 21st 2011 at 4:13:01 PM

Not right away. There's no way of performing abortions or getting miscarriages, and even if everyone stops conceiving, that's still nine months of backlog as it were.

And it's not just the population rise, but the zero death rate.

edited 21st Jul '11 4:14:54 PM by OldManHoOh

Bluesqueak Since: Jan, 2010
#88: Jul 21st 2011 at 5:39:08 PM

[up]Population rises since the Eighteenth Century have been chiefly due to rises in life expectancy. Stopping everyone dying would mean that the world population would rise by about an extra 161,000 people per day.

It's actually only about half the number of live births (the entire reason the population is growing is that there are more births than deaths).

What would be the real demographic time bomb would be if those not-dead people were capable of having kids. Because that would mean that birth rate would be rising as well.

It ain't over 'till the ring hits the lava.
OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
It's super effective.
#89: Jul 22nd 2011 at 2:12:59 AM

They're still having kids right this very second. They weren't exactly warned of this nine months in advance.

edited 22nd Jul '11 2:13:31 AM by OldManHoOh

Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#90: Jul 22nd 2011 at 2:53:03 AM

Y'know, I'm actually hoping that childkiller-guy has made a legit Heel–Face Turn. Simply because him being all lolI'mstillevil would be too damned obvious.

What's precedent ever done for us?
ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
#91: Jul 22nd 2011 at 3:06:22 AM

[up]Hey, they ARE trying to get the american viewers... just saying.

edited 22nd Jul '11 3:06:37 AM by ZheToralf

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OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
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#92: Jul 22nd 2011 at 3:18:17 AM

[up] Yes, but, what has that got to do with how Oswald's arc is going?

edited 22nd Jul '11 3:18:25 AM by OldManHoOh

ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
#93: Jul 22nd 2011 at 5:39:03 AM

I was trying to make a joke about how some Viewers Are Morons.

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:39:32 AM by ZheToralf

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OldManHoOh It's super effective. from England Since: Jul, 2010
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#94: Jul 22nd 2011 at 5:42:14 AM

Didn't really work for me.

edited 22nd Jul '11 5:43:09 AM by OldManHoOh

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#95: Jul 22nd 2011 at 11:53:37 AM

I felt that Oswald getting a heel face turn was the obvious place to take his character. Because how could a child rapist be an antagonist in a "weird things happening means nobody dies" plot?

edited 22nd Jul '11 11:53:47 AM by TParadox

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Birion Since: Jan, 2001
#96: Jul 23rd 2011 at 7:39:59 AM

Alright, I get that Gwen's married, but with Jack and Rex both hooking up, and after her and Esther's very moving conversation, I was expecting to find all members of Torchwood in bed.

ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
vanthebaron Mystical Monkey Master from Carlyle, Il Since: Sep, 2010
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#98: Jul 23rd 2011 at 8:47:46 AM

That think with jack and the bartender was kind of hot...then again it's John Barrowman

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ZheToralf Floating Advice Reminder from somewhere in Germany Since: Dec, 2009
#99: Jul 23rd 2011 at 8:50:27 AM

I just hope next ep is gonna be a bit more fast paced. This makes me miss the waky alien storys from the first 2 seasons. Also, I miss Owen, he was such a funny snarker.

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#100: Jul 23rd 2011 at 9:15:41 PM

From my position one episode behind current, I consider the best part of Torchwood's run so far to be the last third of series one through all of series two. They started to figure out what worked around the time of the plane from the 40s episode, maybe even as early as Random Shoes. I'll grant that Abbaddon was rather hamhanded, though.

The Monster of the Week formula is weak storytelling, but Children of Earth and Miracle Day are a little too far in the other direction for my taste. The Torchwood miniseries are Good Drama, Series Two is good television.

I'd kind of like the show to go into a similar format to what Doctor Who is now: year-long arc with focus episodes and breather episodes. I'm pretty sure that there's no going back at this point, though.

I disliked Owen early on, and downright hated him in the cannibal villagers episode where Gwen lands in his bed through his un-tactful use of un-charm (I'm so glad that plotline dried up almost as quickly as it appeared). His path to redemption as kicked off by the lady pilot was the key to my beginning to enjoy the show.

Does Jack even so much as glance at women anymore? I'm fine with the post-watershed mentality letting him do more than just flirt with any pretty face he happens by, but I miss the days when he'd start to chat someone up and the Doctor would sigh "not now, Jack" at him, or he'd make a crack about hooking up with someone he just met and get shot down.

At first I thought that he was tending more towards men these days because society had finally caught up with him and he was having an easier time, but now I'm starting to suspect that he either has the most accurate gaydar in the universe or he's the universe's biggest magnet for If It's You It's Okay (Ianto explicitly was this).

edited 23rd Jul '11 9:33:06 PM by TParadox

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