Torchwood 2x10, Out of the Rain

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So basically, the wardrobe people had a bunch of leftover newsboy caps from Daleks in Manhattan and told the writers "hey, guys, we've got to use these somehow." Don't lie, you know it's true.

I will be deeply disappointed if I don't see the creepy clowns and the projector coming on in a couple of vids this season, and also, there are a lot of flat, weird reaction shot edits here. Nonetheless, the ringmaster guy is really freaking me out.

(Other viddable bits: Jack and Ianto standing on screen together for once in the theater, beautifully framed; all the rainy bits; there's probably some meta vid somewhere to be made of the team sitting around the projector around 17:00; also, holy shit, 19:11, where Jack turns around and is framed as the ringleader. The visual metaphor is lolarious, but without the sound ("Trapped in film FOREVER!") it might be useful to someone, and if I had a sad circus song it might be useful to me right now. All footage of Pearl might be useful in a multi, especially 29:40ish. Jack's head movement at 36:15.)

Cinema killed the traveling star, and the writing and direction is nearing season 1 hilarity. The zombie vaudeville people are terrifying, though. I keep, like, glancing behind me.

Do mine eyes spot a new helicopter shot at 12:42? Also, is it only because I'm a vidder that I notice that they've been using the same five shots of Cardiff!porn for a season and a half, or are other people sick of that one shot of Cardiff Bay at sunrise with different color filters on it?

Jack was totally working for Torchwood when he went undercover as a Carnie, wasn't he. Also, I enjoy how after a week of looking at bandom livejournals, the tattooed man is not that impressive.

By the half-hour mark, I have classified this as "Captain Jack vs. Count Olaf". Beware the schism, Captain Jack! Look at his ankle!

("A flask! Their last breath! In a flask? Their last breath?" We're on the exposition merry-go-round!)

I love how Ianto and Jack are working together in this episode, though. Sure, they're doing it, but also they're cop buddies for a few moments, which is very cheering. I also love how the camera is treating them as a couple throughout this episode. Not that I'm anti-Jack/Gwen, but yay for the blocking treating Ianto fairly.

Ianto catches the hail mary pass, my fandoms suddenly and violently collide in my head, and I smell kidfic in the offing. Also, have Ianto's pants always been this tight? I draw the audience's attention to 43:12.



Well, something about the writing or the direction here was hinky, but it still seemed like this episode was trying to do something more interesting for its monster-of-the-week than others, and I love anything that's kind of sort of time travel. Yay Ianto and Jack being treated as a couple by the cameras, at least. I'm not at all against the Jack/Gwen if it's not done in some lame Ianto-abandonment way, but it looks like they might actually treat Gwen's marriage well for a little bit, and that's totally cool. You know, there's been some commentary floating around that whatever Rhys's problems, he respects that his girlfriend/spouse takes her alien-fighting seriously, and he doesn't try to get in her way, and while he gets a little threatened by Jack he's never seemed threatened by Gwen's power. This is true. This makes me not want to see Rhys ditched, for all that I wanted him dead in Season 1 - I wanted everyone except Tosh dead at least once in Season 1.


As far as next week: FINALLY, that steadycam shot of Gwen looking scared that I've been waiting for from the previews all season. Also, do Gwen and Tosh really ditch Jack and go adventuring on their own? \o/ I think I might have to make a Gwen/Tosh season 2 vid as well

YAY TORCHWOOD.