Torchwood Post
Feb. 3rd, 2014 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveningblueDoes "They Keep Killing Suzie" make any sense to people? Here are some enormous problems I have with it:
1. If that guy Max was a "Trojan horse" who Suzie set up to infiltrate Torchwood, force them to bring her back to life, and then repeat Emily Dickinson until they went into lockdown, how on earth was she able to control *when* they went into lockdown? It had to happen at the precise moment when Suzie and Gwen were heading away, but the rest of the gang hadn't yet noticed their disappearance.
2. Max has to repeat "Because I could not stop for death…" a hundred times for them to go into lockdown, but they only have to say the ISBN once in order to reverse lockdown?
3. How could Suzie have known beforehand that they'd be able to keep her alive for more than two minutes? Or did she do all this for just two more minutes of life??
4. Deep, meaningful look of --- what? --- between Jack and Gwen when he comes back into the Hub and sees her sitting there, all revived and healthy and shit.
5. The famous stopwatch scene between Jack and Ianto. I want to like this scene, I really do. But it's so weird. Ianto propositions Jack over Suzie's dead body, as he's filling out some sort of intake form or death certificate? And Jack responds by laughing too hard. Not seductively. Not flirty. The scene seems sort of hamfisted and not in any way sexy (to me). And it comes right after the Look of Deep Meaning between Jack and Gwen.
I don't understand this show. And yet I keep watching.
(p.s. I am watching Rome right now and the actress who played Suzie is on it. She is brilliant. I wish we'd gotten to see more of her as Suzie.)
1. If that guy Max was a "Trojan horse" who Suzie set up to infiltrate Torchwood, force them to bring her back to life, and then repeat Emily Dickinson until they went into lockdown, how on earth was she able to control *when* they went into lockdown? It had to happen at the precise moment when Suzie and Gwen were heading away, but the rest of the gang hadn't yet noticed their disappearance.
2. Max has to repeat "Because I could not stop for death…" a hundred times for them to go into lockdown, but they only have to say the ISBN once in order to reverse lockdown?
3. How could Suzie have known beforehand that they'd be able to keep her alive for more than two minutes? Or did she do all this for just two more minutes of life??
4. Deep, meaningful look of --- what? --- between Jack and Gwen when he comes back into the Hub and sees her sitting there, all revived and healthy and shit.
5. The famous stopwatch scene between Jack and Ianto. I want to like this scene, I really do. But it's so weird. Ianto propositions Jack over Suzie's dead body, as he's filling out some sort of intake form or death certificate? And Jack responds by laughing too hard. Not seductively. Not flirty. The scene seems sort of hamfisted and not in any way sexy (to me). And it comes right after the Look of Deep Meaning between Jack and Gwen.
I don't understand this show. And yet I keep watching.
(p.s. I am watching Rome right now and the actress who played Suzie is on it. She is brilliant. I wish we'd gotten to see more of her as Suzie.)
