Torchwood 1x09 - Love and Monsters 2

Stark

Thanks to ixoy for this week's episode title.

Jacquetta May, is this Russell T. Davies's drag queen persona or what? Because RTD may not be credited with writing this episode but it certainly stank like an RTD episode.

I could just barely tolerate Love and Monsters 1. Just barely. The pathetic lead character whom we've just met and are supposed to believe is intimately linked with our main protagonists. The pathetic love interest. The pathetic friends. The pathetic alien obsession. The pathetic "alien" itself. The tragic ending. Okay, so maybe I didn't tolerate it.

At least this episode wasn't specifically written as the fulfilment of a six year old's first wet dream. Yes, six year olds have wet dreams of Peter Kay all naked and green skinned. Noone said growing up was easy. It wasn't written as a fulfilment of RTD's wet dreams either. Oh Jack&Ianto, *sigh*, we could have had 50 mins of stopwatch fun. Did I mention this episode had the least amount of on-screen Ianto prescence?

Okay, so short plot summary of Love and Monsters 2. Obsessive geek develops a crush on Gwen. He gets killed and ends up all squishy. But his "sixth eye" keeps his essence bound to the earthly realm and earthly Gwen. As Gwen comes closer to the mystery of his death, Eugene grows harder and harder for her. Eventually as Gwen stares into the face of death, Eugene reaches full hardness and breaks through into reality, pushing Gwen to the ground with tremendous force. As Gwen comes out of her trance, she smiles with elation as she feels Eugene on her leg, and Eugene floats away satisfied. All while his mother watches. With my grasp of purile innuendo, I should consider writing for a "post watershed show" myself.

Love and Monsters 2. It's Love and Monsters 1. But on a boat. With shoes.

Now, speaking of random shoes, this is so much more fun:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tYnn51C3X_w

LoGiE

It's not the worst episode of torchwood I've watched although I'm begining to wonder why I'm still tuning in...

aidan_walsh

As gapped as Gwen's front teeth

Suzie: "There's nothing but darkness..."
Eugene: 50 brazillian watt bulbs in the sky and walking around like he was still sucking oxygen.

I see on some trivia that the writers don't even seem to know when to set their episodes, as "t is stated that Eugene's father left in 1992, and Eugene says that his father is "14 years too late", placing the story in 2006. However, Gwen joined Torchwood some time after the Battle of Canary Wharf, which took place sometime in 2007." Pff, get a book and write things down lads...

I also predict we'll see that video shop assistant coming back into the show as a paedophile. Just has that look about him...

But hey, next weeks looks like it'll either be interesting sci-fi or frog-face pron-a-thon, and then we finally have a promise of some proper Captain Jack based episodes. Well, one. Maybe. Not bad for the much hyped star of the show, really innit?

BuffyBot

*shakes head*

I could write a long diatribe, but I can't bring myself to care enough!

secret_squirrel

Why oh why after L&M 1 - easily the worst of the last Who series, did we need a similar episode in Torchwood?

It sucked the big one, and Im not talking about Ianto and Capt Jack.

polly oliver

As gapped as Gwen's front teeth

It was bloody awful. I can't think of anything else to say about it. Bleh.

Kwekubo

As gapped as Gwen's front teeth

I don't know what to make of this episode. The plot just seemed to be all over the shop - I mean, what was the point of the shoes anyway? Why did he go off into the sky at the end? Why were Torchwood even involved in the investigation? Maybe I ought to go back and watch it again. Either way, I think I'm glad the DW Christmas special's approaching.

popebenny16

I thought it was the best one they have done so far.

no I dont actually it was total cack and I dont think anyone could have a crush on dreary Gwen