Indifferent. I'm not raving about the episode, nor was I when it was first shown, and I don't hate it. It's just an episode.
*SPOLIERS FROM SERIES 1 & 2*
But when you keep the happenings in Series 2 in mind, then it's a good precursor to the whole Owen scenario, and you wonder if RTD and his crew have been planning that for a long time, particularly when you take into account Ianto's last comment - "That's the thing about gloves, sir. They always come in pairs". There was a bit earlier on in which Gwen asks Jack, "What if she never dies?".
There were a couple of things said at the start that I'm going to put in a new thread sometime - but I'll say the dirty look from Detective Swanson when she heard the Torchwood SUV coming was gold.
There was an interesting statistic from Ianto (who else?) about RetCon - by episode 1.08, 2008 people had been RetCon'd.
Onto Suzie... she's displaying the same feelings that Tosh and Gwen felt - the job got to her, and she needed someone to talk to. Gwen turned to Owen, Tosh turned to Mary in
Greeks Bearing Gifts. I wonder if Suzie also turned to Owen for someone to speak to as well, or if she was just bedding him for the crack of it.
A few issues I had - first of all, Suzie has a hole in her throat, yet she's able to drink coffee fine. Secondly, there was a terrible continuity issue when they were showing Suzie the pictures of the Pilgrim members. We see Jack spreading the pictures out on the table. The next shot is an aerial view, and there is nothing on the table. Gwen begins to lay out the pictures of the murder victims (on the empty table), and then we see a shot, over Gwen's shoulder, of her putting down the last picture of the murder victims, on top of the pictures of Pilgrim members. A fourth shot, aerial again, shows the three murder victim pictures on the table alone, with the final fifth shot, over Suzie's shoulder, showing both sets of pictures being gathered up by Jack. Just something you'd have thought they'd notice.
The third issue I had was when Gwen's Saab (I notice earpieces, I notice continuity issues, and I have a thing for noticing when cars are Saabs.
) pulled up onto the ferry dock. Moments earlier, Suzie and Gwen, and Jack and Owen in the SUV, had been driving through the dark, and Owen told Jack that Gwen had minutes left. The Saab, and then the SUV a couple of minutes later, pull up onto the dock in daylight. Quite bright daylight. Must be a strange quirk of Cardiff... maybe the ime of day changes abruptly as you move from one part of the city to the other?
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Another fact I picked up from 1.08 - Suzie asked how long it had been since she died (Ep. 1.01), and Jack said three months. Just another something I'll be making a thread about.
