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So I promised

phnelt I'd wait and watch Torchwood with her, except she's a bazillion hours behind me and I snapped and watched it at noon. And then again with her.

As promised, there was a blowfish driving a sportscar (an actual alien! Not CGI! I'm sorry, but good costuming is so important in your monsters.)

But also, I didn't expect that they'd get the characterization pinned down, or that the editor had quit with the hard drugs and things actually flowed naturally instead of lots of excessive cutting. Everything was clearer and better lit. And I think the actors must have had more to work with, because they were much better than Season 1 led me to believe.

Also, I love what everyone's done with their hair.

Also, there are no words for how much I enjoy a hot, sympathetic, and recurring villian. I mean, I feel like Spike saved BtVS, in a lot of ways (let's not get into my problems with later-season Spike, I'm one of *those* people) - the presence of a villian who you rooted against but cared about, and who was nice to look at, that added a lot. Also, I love how much the team has cohered. Their competence and banter was really wonderful - I think the break from Jack's overwhelming personality was good for them.

Alright, on to specific moments:

First, Jack totally learned the paralytic lip gloss from Saffron, who was a renegade time agent, y/n? They've all had Companion training, of course. Jack's been around.

Second, I like that the show has adopted our assertion that all conflicts must be resolved by group sex. Torchwood: the bonobos of the crime-fighting world. And yes, it was a cheap gag, but I lol'd at Ianto's thinking-about-it face.

Gwen and Tosh sometimes interact now, and that made me pleased, because I am still rooting for that. Don't even talk to me about Rhys and Owen. Rhys deserves better and Owen - is starting to grow on me. Not like Ianto, though. I am falling for Ianto. Hard.

I am pondering what you'd have to do to get sent to sex rehab in the fifty-first century. I mean, my metaphorical version would be: sure, you can have a drink after work. You can have a little drink *at* work, on occasion. You can have a drink with all your mates, or just with a friend, but if you're never *not* drinking, it's rehab time. I loved Jack's face on "murder rehab", though. He has so much really-bad-person lurking in his psyche.

No, YOU were the wife.

Basically, I love this show forever and ever and I'm going to stop now in order to avoid quoting the entire script. Oh jesus, Torchwood. I was expecting this episode to be hilariously bad, not unironically awesome.

It is worth noting, because I can never let a good thing be, that Davies always seems to start a season strong and finish strong, with some blehh in the middle. Still, at this rate the worst of the mid-season shows will be as good as the best of season 1. Also, I have itchy vidding fingers.

Also, I never expected this show to be fun, in an unironic way. YAY.