Because You Can Never Have Too Many Creepy Children.

[rionaleonhart]

Nice to get an episode with a bit of Captain Jack focus. I was rather hoping for a Captain Jack/Estelle kiss, but oh well. Also, Moses is lovely, even if he was partially responsible for her death.

"We made a vow... that we would be with each other 'til we died."

NO YOU BLOODY DIDN'T. SHUT UP, CAPTAIN JACK. Look, I thought that the relationship between Jack and Estella was charming and lovely and I wish we had seen more of it, but that line was just... very melodramatic, and not, in my opinion, something that Captain Jack should really say.

(EDIT: boji has suggested over on torch_wood that, if he's been living linearly for a very long time, he may have got sick of everything and wanted to have a normal life for once. I think that this idea makes a lot of sense and will settle for it, because I am less uneasy with it than with 'ESTELLE WAS HIS ONE AND ONLY LOVE FOR ALL ETERNITY'.

I mean, I believe that Jack is capable of love and deep feeling. I really do. But I don't like the idea of his being that attached to one person to the exclusion of all others, which that sort of seemed to imply.)

Also, Torchwood really are the most useless team ever. They achieved nothing. They weren't in time to save Old Lady, they lay there ineffectually while Bastard Stepfather (REDEEMING FEATURES, PLEASE, FOR GOD'S SAKE) was being choked by the fairies, and in the end they weren't even able to stop Creepy Girl from being taken.

Poor Creepy Girl's mother. She really did have a very bad day.

But seriously, Torchwood is absolutely hopeless. They've saved maybe one life so far: that of Carys, and they were the ones who let loose the sex alien in the first place. That's it. They never achieve anything. Ever.

I don't necessarily think that the uselessness is a Bad Thing - well, obviously it's a Bad Thing for the alien-harassed residents of Cardiff, but I mean a Bad Thing in television terms - but I'm wondering whether it's intentional on the part of the writers or not.

Also, there was not enough Rhys.


Oh, dear, I'm slipping into the habit of complaining a lot in reviews. I did enjoy watching the episode; there were just a couple of things that annoyed me.