So there’s going to be a DVD intro before every episode? Well that’s just great for my spoilerphobic dad, who's watching this season with me for the first time...
I’ve always recalled this episode as being “the one set on a plane” and “the one that could have been condensed”. But I’d forgotten how genuinely exciting some of the scenes were, and how much the characters develop. We learnt last episode that Esther was curious, but here she’s also a quick thinker, using her smarts and her charm (friendliness as opposed to sexiness) to escape the CIA. Of course this was foreshadowed earlier in the episode when she was told something like “you can’t sit back and watch” and “you have to take sides”, but this wasn’t too annoying.
Meanwhile, on the plane, Jack’s been talking about morphic fields, and I quite enjoy John Barrowman’s delivery. But now he’s been poisoned by Katya from Neighbours (named ‘Lyn’ here but that wasn’t obvious enough to me), who just happens to carry arsenic around with her for handy assassinations. She acknowledges this towards the end, but it still seemed a bit convenient for me. Never mind, because it was fun watching everyone on the plane work together to cure Jack, and more importantly work with Vera and the panel. Why is Vera so amazing, and (spoiler) why must Torchwood lose yet another potential doctor??
I admit that Rex acted like a bit of a dick at the beginning, splitting up Gwen’s family (even if his intentions were good, he didn’t need to act so callous about it). But I didn’t mind him attempting to bribe Danny the flight attendant, saying he’ll let him feel him up if he can have a vodka. Rex comes across as a very heterosexual person, but he’s willing to let that slide a bit if he can have some pain relief. However, Danny’s constant denial about being gay, and everyone else’s insistence that he is, gets pretty old. He’s a flight attendant, so he must be gay! He has a favourite tie, so he must be gay! And then he admits “it was one time!”, and seems ashamed of it. The dude didn’t need people practically bullying him into coming out.
Danes continues to be weird, interacting with people in that creepy way yet fully aware of what’s going on (e.g. how he should grab food while he can because no one will ever want to give him a job). I know from later episodes that he isn’t sorry about the murder, so I wonder how he manages to pull off the crying stunt – has he been practising? Then he meets Jilly, whose bubbliness makes her a breath of fresh air (even though we later learn her motives aren’t admirable).
I appreciated the action in this episode and look forward to seeing how all the different characters will work together. It’s getting better.
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