Ghost Machine rewatch

[galadriel1010]

Gun training scene:
Jack goes down there thinking 'work', Gwen definitely starts the flirting, I don't think Jack realises how hands-on he's being until she starts asking where he sleeps and stuff, at which point he starts wondering where she's going with this.

Ghost machine in the flat:
Again, Gwen seems unable to learn from anyone's mistakes. This scene also seems to imply that pressing the button is a choice, not a compunction, so she was just being dumb at the station, but it's still fairly early days for her at Torchwood.

Owen stalking Morgan:
Another who never learns from his mistakes. He's such a creeper

Bernie Harris:
Why is the entire team apart from Ianto there? What is Tosh's purpose? What's Gwen's purpose, apart from pushing things she shouldn't?
And why on earth does Jack let her take the damn thing when she has such a tendency to do that?

Gwen and Jack in the Hub:
She really doesn't get it. I get this far through the series and always wonder why she's still here.

Gwen and Bernie:
I like Bernie. He's a good character, although not nice.
Gwen also going freelance. She really is a liability

Gwen's pity party:
Hard to properly bollock someone who's already kicking themselves over it. Which is probably why she keeps on making the mistakes, because no one really corrects her. (Personal experience jading me here. Little brother used to cry whenever he got told off, so Mum would tell him it was fine and it ceased to matter, so he kept doing it. He stopped when he was about 15, though.)

Yeah, my view of Gwen is rather jaded by my experiences with people I've grown up with. She pushes a lot of my buttons.

Cannot cope with any more Torchwood. certainly can't cope with Cyberwoman right now. More ironing time.

Comments

[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

The gun isn't attractive, except in the sense of crafstmanship. But once you learn to shoot, it's an adrenaline rush. The thrill of competence, learning to appropriately manage something dangerous, knowing you can protect yourself or your family in the worst circumstances. Or that you're prepared in case watermelons become sentient. Or zombies. The zombie apocalypse is coming, you know.

Oh, and BOOM! Because the boom is quite fun in a very childish way.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why guns would help against the zombiepocalypse. They just keep going whatever happens to them. Stake-filled pits and cheesewire at knee-height will be a much better defence.

Or a castle. Boy do I wish my ancestors hadn't picked the wrong side in the civil war - then we might still have one.

And I get the competence and acheivement thing, although I prefer to get that from jigsaws, which don't involve going outside... My computer game choices say a lot about me, really.