oh we are soooo back

I suspect I spoiled something for myself because I was confused and looked something up, but whatever it's fine

Torchwood finds a new twink and Jack f**ks him after he turned down the job offer

Jack: *saves twink from being killed* come with me... heh, not the first time

THIS IS WHY THE DOCTOR IS ALWAYS SAYING STOP, JACK

definitely picked up on the Everything Changes parallels, those were fun, it's been too long since we've seen Jack Harkness standing on a roof

I see the next episode has "Aliens & Sex" at the beginning of the title, if it pulls from Day One I'm gonna lose my f**king MIND

THE POTENTIALLLLLLL

incredible character work for Ianto, holy s**t this episode could've been great if they leaned so much more into the body horror

you see a bit of what could've been with what happens to Dr. Tanizaki, but like, the idea of a half-converted Cyberman has so much potential for horror and they FUCKED IT UP

my friend had a great rant about this episode after I showed it to them:

Y'see. They made a rookie mistake. When you're tryin to score horny points with a monster that's not traditionally sexy - and there are traditionally sexy monsters and if you wanna do an extra-spicy version of one of them that's fine - but if you're going for horny with one that doesn't usually have sex appeal, then you don't go for mass-market appeal. Because for the people it works for, it's dime a dozen. It'll be mildly titillating and you can get it anywhere. And for the people it doesn't work for you're gonna look ridiculous. Real clown hours. It's gonna be an unnecessarily sexy Halloween costume. What you gotta do is you gotta go for the freaks. The real monster f**kers. It'll be a smaller demographic. But for the people it doesn't work for, they'll just be like "oh cool monster". But for the people it does work for, it'll really work for, and it'll work like nothing else. They'll be dedicated. Rookie mistake. Amateur hour. Embarrassing.

2.5/5 - 1 star for Ianto, 1 star for Lisa/Cyberwoman VS Myfanwy/Pterodactyl fight, 0.5 stars for what could've been

(copy pasted from my Goodreads review)

one with a buzz cut and a black leather jacket, looking like a lesbian she once had a crush on

CANON BUTCH 9 LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

spoilers for the end of Doctor Who series 10

This story takes the subtext of Bill's Cyberman conversion in World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls and goes "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards."

I think this is a good story but holy hell this was a crazy one to listen to right after the gun shot that was the previous one (both stories I listened to at work)