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

[kelticbanshee]

Gun training scene:
Jack goes down there thinking 'work', Gwen defintily 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.

Amen to that! I've always thought that Jack has quite a lax concept of personal boundaries, even after 150 years in Victorian England... John Hart is even worse, so it may be a 51st century thing...

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

I think it might be a kickback against having to contrain himself during the Victorian era. He loves physical contact.

[kelticbanshee]

Something tells me Jack wasn't particularly restrained in his dad in Victorian England... ;-)

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

I guess it would depend. he would certainly have been restrained with male partners, because risking his own life is fine, but risking his partner's less so.

[kelticbanshee]

Point. It I think he would still have been a lot more hands-on than appropriate... :-) probably just enough that he could get away with it, but, you know...