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dr-is-in.livejournal.com posting in antigwenallies Mar. 3rd, 2008 12:56 am)So, a poster over at Television Without Pity got to see an advanced screening of "Something Borrowed".....
Ok, so I saw this over at the Gwack community, and took myself over to TWoP to check what was going on. Seems Prometha has gotten to see an advance copy of the ep....this is what she had to say about the ep....my whining in bold....heh....
Well, I think this episode will be what they call a “fan favourite” because it's basically filmed fanfic. Personally I thought it a bit laboured (pun intended) and silly, though there are some very funny parts.
Teasers: “Speak now or forever hold your peace ...” “Stop!”
“That's for calling my mother an ugly bitch!”
“The hero always gets the girl.”
Tosh: still pathetic. Gets chatted up by Rhys' best man, Banana, then stuck with him in a giant spiders web thing.
Owen: still dead. Cheered up a bit. Shoots Jack, again. A lot.
Ianto: shops for Gwen's wedding dress.
He can't get her married off to Rhys fast enough, can he? Can't blame him when the hag keeps making mooneyes at Jack.
Had a dad who was a tailor, discusses inside leg measurements with Jack.
Rhys: has a huge cock, apparently, and that's canon.
Gwen's friends: shrieking hen night girlies. Gwen's parents: very nice. Rhys' mother: Nerys Hughes - cue Half Man Half Biscuit's song I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart) and I'm probably the only one here who'll get that reference but BIZARRELY the lyrics are actually quite relevant: "The dead got up and everything became one big cacophony (Owen) ... and all the necrophiliacs are walking round in misery (Tosh) ... careering down the aisles like some big psychopathic carnivore (the shapeshifter)" That is really weird!
So, Jack and Gwen. The kiss shown is actually him as a shapeshifter.
THANK GOD! Although, this makes Gwen even more of a slag for kissing him on HER WEDDING DAY.
However, there seems to be a sort of sense that whoever wrote this episode believes that in series one, Gwen wanted a relationship with Jack but he couldn't commit, or something. I know that is not at all what we saw, but she says, for instance, “Rhys isn't afraid to tell me he loves me” as if in rebuke. On the one hand Gwen has many statements about her love for Rhys, but all the Jack/Gwen scenes are again framed & blocked as romantic.
**GAG** **PUKE** Why are the writers cramming this down our throats? Just makes Gwen look like even more of selfish bitch
“I never thought I'd meet a man like you.” They dance ridiculously closely in public and gaze into each other' eyes. “Will you miss me [while on honeymoon]?” “Always.” “What will you do while I'm gone?” “Pizza. Ianto. Save the world a few times.” Ianto cuts in, but it seems as if Jack's attention is elsewhere. JB is playing it as “bittersweet yearning,” I think. But ehhh. Whatever. As noted, the characterisation on this show is all over the place. Next week he could be playing something else.
If Ianto doesnt kick one of their asses, or tells Jack where to go and how to get there, by the end of the episode, I will be so pissed off. I know Ianto knows very well what and who Jack is, but this fucking cheapens that emotional office scene in ep 1 and the kiss in ep 3.
It seems that Jack has a box of photographs of, presumably, former lovers. They are all men apart from one at the end which shows him getting married in, I think, Edwardian dress. So I presume that will come up again sometime. That info in interesting....
LOL....I originally replied on the Gwack community post about this, before realizing it WAS the Gwack community, using the same icon....deleted the comment real fast.....did't want to start shit with them.
Ok, so I saw this over at the Gwack community, and took myself over to TWoP to check what was going on. Seems Prometha has gotten to see an advance copy of the ep....this is what she had to say about the ep....my whining in bold....heh....
Well, I think this episode will be what they call a “fan favourite” because it's basically filmed fanfic. Personally I thought it a bit laboured (pun intended) and silly, though there are some very funny parts.
Teasers: “Speak now or forever hold your peace ...” “Stop!”
“That's for calling my mother an ugly bitch!”
“The hero always gets the girl.”
Tosh: still pathetic. Gets chatted up by Rhys' best man, Banana, then stuck with him in a giant spiders web thing.
Owen: still dead. Cheered up a bit. Shoots Jack, again. A lot.
Ianto: shops for Gwen's wedding dress.
He can't get her married off to Rhys fast enough, can he? Can't blame him when the hag keeps making mooneyes at Jack.
Had a dad who was a tailor, discusses inside leg measurements with Jack.
Rhys: has a huge cock, apparently, and that's canon.
Gwen's friends: shrieking hen night girlies. Gwen's parents: very nice. Rhys' mother: Nerys Hughes - cue Half Man Half Biscuit's song I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart) and I'm probably the only one here who'll get that reference but BIZARRELY the lyrics are actually quite relevant: "The dead got up and everything became one big cacophony (Owen) ... and all the necrophiliacs are walking round in misery (Tosh) ... careering down the aisles like some big psychopathic carnivore (the shapeshifter)" That is really weird!
So, Jack and Gwen. The kiss shown is actually him as a shapeshifter.
THANK GOD! Although, this makes Gwen even more of a slag for kissing him on HER WEDDING DAY.
However, there seems to be a sort of sense that whoever wrote this episode believes that in series one, Gwen wanted a relationship with Jack but he couldn't commit, or something. I know that is not at all what we saw, but she says, for instance, “Rhys isn't afraid to tell me he loves me” as if in rebuke. On the one hand Gwen has many statements about her love for Rhys, but all the Jack/Gwen scenes are again framed & blocked as romantic.
**GAG** **PUKE** Why are the writers cramming this down our throats? Just makes Gwen look like even more of selfish bitch
“I never thought I'd meet a man like you.” They dance ridiculously closely in public and gaze into each other' eyes. “Will you miss me [while on honeymoon]?” “Always.” “What will you do while I'm gone?” “Pizza. Ianto. Save the world a few times.” Ianto cuts in, but it seems as if Jack's attention is elsewhere. JB is playing it as “bittersweet yearning,” I think. But ehhh. Whatever. As noted, the characterisation on this show is all over the place. Next week he could be playing something else.
If Ianto doesnt kick one of their asses, or tells Jack where to go and how to get there, by the end of the episode, I will be so pissed off. I know Ianto knows very well what and who Jack is, but this fucking cheapens that emotional office scene in ep 1 and the kiss in ep 3.
It seems that Jack has a box of photographs of, presumably, former lovers. They are all men apart from one at the end which shows him getting married in, I think, Edwardian dress. So I presume that will come up again sometime. That info in interesting....
LOL....I originally replied on the Gwack community post about this, before realizing it WAS the Gwack community, using the same icon....deleted the comment real fast.....did't want to start shit with them.
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'If Ianto doesn't kick one of their asses, or tells Jack where to go and how to get there, by the end of the episode, I will be so pissed off.' I'm with you, Ianto can do sooo much better. I doubt it will happen though, the writers just love to play with the Janto and Gack shippers too much. It's like Ianto doesn't even care. Why can't the writers see that Gwack is a horrible idea.
'As noted, the characterisation on this show is all over the place. Next week he could be playing something else.' Next week is suppose to be a Jack/Ianto centric episode, so I'm guessing you're right.
This reads just like I bad fanfiction I posted at
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Can they degrade Ianto any more than they have already?
Obviously.
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