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Finally the Oh the Huge Manatee jokes all over my flist make sense!

With the exception of Jack's weird emo moments wrt the Whale Creature, this episode did not suck! Two episodes of Torchwood in a row that weren't lolariously bad = complete win.

Personally, I'd been rooting for some sort of resolution to the Rhys plotline since early in s1, so I was pleased that he got some honesty and agency in this ep. Also, since my reading of Jack is kind of heavy on the manpain / sociopathic tendencies, I am completely unsurprised that Jack is territorial over Gwen. He's actively or passively killed everyone else's significant other, so really, Gwen's only special because Rhys has survived this long. I was surprised the poor guy outlived the episode. If anyone wants to discuss this Jack is a Psychotic Bastard theory in comments, man, do I have ideas about this. However, in the Jack is Actually an Okay Person? world of canon, his meeting with the Doctor seems to have rekindled his compassion for giant whales, etc, etc. Something like that.

The Tosh/Owen needs to end, now, yep. Ick.

Ianto was completely unexpectedly hot in this episode. And his delivery held some emotional consistency, even - he really doesn't seem to care what happens to him, which makes sense given the plot arc we kind of imagine exists around him.

I enjoyed all the flaily Welsh fighting. That was pretty quality.

However, when it's blatantly canonical that Ianto is blowing the boss during office hours, why does no one acknowledge their relationship? I thought that was Jack acknowledging it in 1x13, what with the snogging. Apparently not. And Tosh slashes everyone.

Also, the Face of Boe is actually the offspring of Cap'n Jack and a huge manatee. You heard it here first.