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- That poor woman in the teaser! Sure, we only see her like a minute and a half, but she was pretty cool for that. Big points to her for carrying a bat, much though it didn't help her.

- ..Aaaaand, Jack avoids the question. Why, the world will never know. I get that fucking with his teammates' heads is fun, but since when did his sexuality become this great mystery?

- Oh, God. Poor Ianto. I desperately want to hug that boy. As he's fictional and I'm not, the task falls to one of his coworkers, and *someone* better step up to the plate, or else.

- Gwen and Owen. Owen and Gwen. I'm getting shades of Buffy and Spike, at their most trainwrecky. At least it's an interesting train wreck, in both cases. So far.

9 min. 19 sec.: Well, that's pleasant. Like I said, no worse than anything I've seen on CSI, but considering it's early in the episode, I *know* things are only going to get grosser.

11 min. 28 sec.: Hold on, is that the same 'moor' they used in "Tooth and Claw?"

- Dude. Splitting up was so the dumbest idea Jack has ever had in his life, wasn't it?

- "This can't be human," says Gwen. Care to wager on that?

- And more splitting up. Have any of these people ever seen a horror movie? Seriously, I'm asking.

I'm still asking.

- Graphic sight of gunshot wound? No problem. Needle? Lily needs to look away. At least the characters aren't the only ones who have the crazy.

In other news - finally, Owen gets to actually *do* anything as the team medic.

- "Do you miss being a doctor?"

"I'm still a doctor. I just don't deal with patients anymore. It's ideal." - OMG, Owen is channeling House!

- Piles of shoes have never been so scary.

- I win that wager. It's a pyrrhic victory.

39 min. 38 sec.: Two possibilities here. Either Gwen didn't shoot cause Owen would have died otherwise (the good option), or she didn't shoot cause she couldn't (the option that makes her lose all the respect I've gathered for her this episode). Fuck it. Let me be an optimist, just this once.

You know, this may be the very first time when Gwen actually makes sense as the POV character. It's not about her being more innocent than them. It's about the loss of that innocence. And that? That works.

And I admit, Owen/Gwen makes *sense* here. Again, I get the Buffy/Spike parallels. I'd be surprised if this ends well, and I'm not sure I want it to, but the connection is very real, and Gwen's right - you need someone you can share this kind of life with.

I feel *horrible* for Rhys, but I have no doubt he won't end up alone, in the long run. He's too good a guy for that to happen. He'll find someone else and be happy. I just hope we keep him on as a character.

In other news, I'm not liking where Jack's character keeps going in this show. Pragmatic and practical I'm great with. Sadistic, I don't buy. I could look at it as another side to pragmatism, I guess.

We'll see, said the blind man.

In *other* other news, I'm ecstatic that Tosh finally got something to do this episode. She was pretty fucking awesome, *and* the next episode is all hers.


Overall, the best of the Chibnall episodes. I didn't feel talked down to or two-by-foured. Not entirely happy with some of the characterization, but there was enough good to tide me over.

Just, whatever you do, for fuck's sake don't eat before this episode. That goes double for 'during.'

Queer content: None, but check the previews for episode 7.
Jack naked: None