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Dr. Who and Torchwood
Sep. 23rd, 2007 01:39 amMy wife discovered Captain Jack Harkness today last night.
Last night I watched the most recent episode of Dr. Who, in which Captain Jack returns. My lovely and talented wife was...taken, shall we say, by the lovely and talented Captain Jack Harkness. She found him amazingly sexy, especially when he was flirting with other guys. So today I got at the crack of 11 a.m. only to have her announce that from now on Torchwood (which I had been Tivoing and then deleting once I'd watched it) was on the "don't delete it until she's seen it too" list. She had a repeat of Torchwood on the tv and was watching it.
Speaking of Dr. Who, my favorite bit of dialogue so far this season occurs when Jack's describing how he found them--and how he got left behind.
Martha: "But the thing is, how could you have left him behind, Doctor?"
Doctor: "I was busy."
Martha: "Is that what happens, though? Seriously? Do you just get bored with us one day and leave us behind?"
Jack: "Not if you're blond."
Martha: "Oh, she was blond! Oh what a surprise!"
Meanwhile on Torchwood...from the very first episode I've found Gwen's status as a police officer hard to buy into. She doesn't seem aggressive enough. Involved in trying to break up a bar brawl she gets thrown against the bar and falls to the floor, seemingly unhurt but in no hurry to get back into it. Later in that episode she gets threatened with a gun and seems unduly frightened. Yes, getting threatened with a gun is frightening, I'm sure--but she reacted more like any random young woman on the street, not someone who has supposedly been a police officer for years.
A friend of mine commented when I mentioned this, "Well, she is a British cop...." Which was mildly amusing.
But then on tonight's episode, Captain Jack Harkness takes her to the shooting range and tells her that she needs to learn how to fire all these weapons (as he gestures at a table covered with weaponry). I'm thinking futuristic, science fiction-y alien weapons.
But no--he's talking about handguns. Ordinary, 20th/21st century, 100% human-tech firearms. Which, to judge by her reaction, she's never ever handled before. And that may in fact be an accurate portrayal of a British cop. I don't know.
However, speaking as an American, that. Just. Looks. So. Freaking. Wrong. How can you be a cop--a detective, no less (ETA: I'm reliably informed that Gwen was a beat cop, not a detective and thinking about it I guess that's right, but my point still stands)--and never have handled a firearm? I know that Britain isn't the USA, that most of the world isn't the USA--but that's the most alien thing I've seen yet on this series about people dealing with aliens and alien technology on a weekly basis.
On the other hand, I'll give the actress (Eve Myles) this: she doesn't blink when she fires the gun. Unlike the vast majority of actors in tv shows and movies, who flinch (blink) everytime they pull the trigger, she keeps her eyes open and on the target when she's shooting.
Last night I watched the most recent episode of Dr. Who, in which Captain Jack returns. My lovely and talented wife was...taken, shall we say, by the lovely and talented Captain Jack Harkness. She found him amazingly sexy, especially when he was flirting with other guys. So today I got at the crack of 11 a.m. only to have her announce that from now on Torchwood (which I had been Tivoing and then deleting once I'd watched it) was on the "don't delete it until she's seen it too" list. She had a repeat of Torchwood on the tv and was watching it.
Speaking of Dr. Who, my favorite bit of dialogue so far this season occurs when Jack's describing how he found them--and how he got left behind.
Martha: "But the thing is, how could you have left him behind, Doctor?"
Doctor: "I was busy."
Martha: "Is that what happens, though? Seriously? Do you just get bored with us one day and leave us behind?"
Jack: "Not if you're blond."
Martha: "Oh, she was blond! Oh what a surprise!"
Meanwhile on Torchwood...from the very first episode I've found Gwen's status as a police officer hard to buy into. She doesn't seem aggressive enough. Involved in trying to break up a bar brawl she gets thrown against the bar and falls to the floor, seemingly unhurt but in no hurry to get back into it. Later in that episode she gets threatened with a gun and seems unduly frightened. Yes, getting threatened with a gun is frightening, I'm sure--but she reacted more like any random young woman on the street, not someone who has supposedly been a police officer for years.
A friend of mine commented when I mentioned this, "Well, she is a British cop...." Which was mildly amusing.
But then on tonight's episode, Captain Jack Harkness takes her to the shooting range and tells her that she needs to learn how to fire all these weapons (as he gestures at a table covered with weaponry). I'm thinking futuristic, science fiction-y alien weapons.
But no--he's talking about handguns. Ordinary, 20th/21st century, 100% human-tech firearms. Which, to judge by her reaction, she's never ever handled before. And that may in fact be an accurate portrayal of a British cop. I don't know.
However, speaking as an American, that. Just. Looks. So. Freaking. Wrong. How can you be a cop--a detective, no less (ETA: I'm reliably informed that Gwen was a beat cop, not a detective and thinking about it I guess that's right, but my point still stands)--and never have handled a firearm? I know that Britain isn't the USA, that most of the world isn't the USA--but that's the most alien thing I've seen yet on this series about people dealing with aliens and alien technology on a weekly basis.
On the other hand, I'll give the actress (Eve Myles) this: she doesn't blink when she fires the gun. Unlike the vast majority of actors in tv shows and movies, who flinch (blink) everytime they pull the trigger, she keeps her eyes open and on the target when she's shooting.
