He was Dead, to Begin With
Mar. 10th, 2008 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielPractically caught up with Torchwood. I'd been dragging my feet a little. Pretty much for no good reason other than being a little bit annoyed by the writers.
But now I've watched "Dead Man Walking" and "A Day in the Death" and am feeling better about things. I think a lot of that has to do with how Owen-centric the episodes were. I needed to get away from issues dealing with Jack (and Gwen and Ianto). And Owen, well, he's the character that's grown on me the most since the show started. He's also one of the characters I find most interesting. So these two episodes really worked for me.
Besides the simple fact that, hey, Owen's not off the show just because the killed him. Which made me happy by itself, but now Owen's kind of the anti-Jack, permanently stuck in limbo between being alive and being dead. That's just wonderfully fascinating to me.
And Burn Gorman was fabulous in both episodes. Absolutely fantastic. Angry and sad and desperate and, eventually to an extent, accepting. I really felt for Owen.
I would love more scenes between Owen and Ianto. Their relationship is interesting.
Unconnected to all of that, though, I was happy to see Richard Briers. Though now I think I'm going to have to go watch an episode of The Good Life.
But now I've watched "Dead Man Walking" and "A Day in the Death" and am feeling better about things. I think a lot of that has to do with how Owen-centric the episodes were. I needed to get away from issues dealing with Jack (and Gwen and Ianto). And Owen, well, he's the character that's grown on me the most since the show started. He's also one of the characters I find most interesting. So these two episodes really worked for me.
Besides the simple fact that, hey, Owen's not off the show just because the killed him. Which made me happy by itself, but now Owen's kind of the anti-Jack, permanently stuck in limbo between being alive and being dead. That's just wonderfully fascinating to me.
And Burn Gorman was fabulous in both episodes. Absolutely fantastic. Angry and sad and desperate and, eventually to an extent, accepting. I really felt for Owen.
I would love more scenes between Owen and Ianto. Their relationship is interesting.
Unconnected to all of that, though, I was happy to see Richard Briers. Though now I think I'm going to have to go watch an episode of The Good Life.
