Children of Earth: Episode 3

[amand_r]

FIRST, BEFORE I FORGET: SHITBEARS!

So, the first 3 minutes of this episode was like…every fanfic evar in which nothing happens, but we get to see them for an hour. Like when my buddies some over to visit for an hour to discuss something important, but we end up drinking beer and playing Call of Duty. Score.


1. Are they using the same woman as the American news anchor that they did in The Sound of Drums and The Stolen Earth? If they are, that's cool. Mini continuity!
2. Oh Ianto, "The Old team," LOLOR5.
3. Also, GO TEAM GHETTO CARDIFF, WITH THE THUMBS UP SIGNS AND THE DAY CARE! TEN QUID A KID FTW.
4. OH ALICE, HOW YOUR SPY FU FAILED.
5. CANON: THE TEAM LOVES COFFEE. LOVES COFFEE. Re: THE REASSURED SMILES.
6. [obligatory coatgasm]
7. Nice half-dressed naked chick desktop pic. I like to think that they changed it to that on purpose, but it was probably there before they jacked it.
8. Jack: I felt it.
Ianto: Shit.
Jack: Yeah.
9. JACK'S FACE WHEN HE PUTS IT TOGETHER. OH HOW I ♥ THAT FACE. OH JACK—WHY DO YOU RUN OUT.
10. Lois! Win! With your lying innuendo!
11. The scene with Gwen and Clem in the police station broke my black little heart.
12. PSA: FIRE FROM THE SKY=NOT SO GOOD.
13. So, let's talk about the aliens and their penchant for vomit. And flailing. And vomity flailing. Ew.
14. GOD, I WISH HARRIET JONES WAS PM.

~~I HAD TO STOP FOR COFFEE~~

15. "Who's the queer? I can smell it." Has fandom imploded yet?
16. IANTO MADE THE SMILEY. GWEN HATES SMILIES. GWEN. HATES. SMILIES. LOLOR5.
17. Okay, now I got no love for Spears (okay, maybe a little), but that elevator conversation that she has with Frobisher? How much do I think that if she had Frobisher's job, Jack would still be incapacitated somewhere?
18. GWEN—YOU CAN BE MY TYPO BUDDY.
19. AAAAAAND FINALLY. I knew it was coming. I was spoiled. Still, this is what happened when he said 'Walk into the light, kids': OMG JACK NO! YOU FUCKER. MUTHER EFFER. NO NO, SHITBEARS!

That is all I wrote.

Comments

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't get the whole freaking out over Jack and the kids thing. He already did something similar with Jasmine and the fairies, amirite?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was prepared for it. I didn't freak out about it, and I probably wouldn't have, if they hadn't had him say that. Really. And we don't know what the alternative was. But that line, when they added it, was fakishy jocular (because he was trying to be reassuring, I am sure), and that really bothered me. I bet if they had cut it out, I wouldn't have felt hurt at all.

Also, I have a kid and an overactive imagination. It makes my heart clench just thinking about my girl, up there and frightened. Sappy, but true.

[phaetonschariot.livejournal.com]

lol I know, all I've been seeing is "OMG JACK IS EVIL" and "OMG JACK DON'T SAY 'I SUPPOSE', BLAH BLAH SO DISMISSIVE I WANT TO SLAP HIM" and I'm like "....dudes, you have no critical thinking skills at all, do you?"

[mrsalemp.livejournal.com]

All you wrote and still more coherant than me (much much more coherant than me in messenger lol)

OI! It's not 1965 anymore.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LOLOR5. OH IANTO.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

1. Are they using the same woman as the American news anchor that they did in The Sound of Drums and The Stolen Earth? If they are, that's cool. Mini continuity!

She's been in The Sarah Jane Adventures too. I think she's the only character who's been in all three shows.

14. GOD, I WISH HARRIET JONES WAS PM.

ME TOO. This is all the Doctor's fault.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

We came up with a short list of three actors who appeared in all three of Joss's tv shows once. It would be interesting to see the list of SJA/DW/TW triple crown actors.

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

IT WAS THE CREEPY HEAD TWITCH AND THE WAY JACK SAID THAT LAST LINE! I knew it was coming, too (in a vague I-saw-that-one-picture way), but OMG THE WAY HE SAID IT! That's what sealed it as creepy and an awful cliffhanger for me.

I'd rather have the Master as PM. At least he was upfront about being awful. And, you know, insane.

Just so you know, I shouted "SHITBEARS" while playing Faerie Bubbles on Neopets today.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it reminds me of clips from films in which they usher kids in to danger with upbeat music or some such. I always feel like it take a special kind of person to fake that upbeat behavior knowing what is coming for the kids.

OTOH, maybe Jack didn't know. WE don't know either, actually. They could all still be alive and living in palaces by the seas on the shores of Cair Paravel.

I THOUGTH ABOUT HOW THE MASTER WOULD HANDLE THIS. ALSO, THIS IS THE SECOND TIME RTD HAS REFERENCED 10 % OF SOMETHING. The Master had the Toclafane kill 10%, too.

YES! IT'S FUN TO SAY SHITBEARS.

Man, Faerie bubbles used to eat so much of my fucking time. Thank god I got rid of the mouse on my computer. Between that and the one in Egyptland where you have to match up three of the same pictures in a row (what is that called), I lost like, three months of my life.

[celisnebula.livejournal.com]

I wasn't spoiled about the last bit, but then I only downloaded 1-3 tonight to watch. However, watching 1, I thought it could be him in the shadows because of the coat.

And, I really wish they had told Rhys, screw the beans we're gonna have an orgy.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LOL THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE, "GO OUT RIGHT NOW. IANTO, PUT YOUR TIE ON THE HANDLE TO THE WAREHOUSE DOOR."

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

SHITBEARS indeed

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

LOLOR5. Never gets old, man.

[used_songs]

I know! The vomit! What kind of creature has vomiting as an intrinsic part of their communication? Horrible.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IMAGINE WHAT BOURBON STREET WOULD LOOK AFTER THE 456 WENT TO MARDI GRAS.

[bethcarielle.livejournal.com]

8. Jack: I felt it.
Ianto: Shit.
Jack: Yeah.

*whimper*

10. Lois! Win! With your lying innuendo!

Hee! Yes! Much love for Lois!

13. So, let's talk about the aliens and their penchant for vomit. And flailing. And vomity flailing. Ew.

Yeah...why is that?

15. "Who's the queer? I can smell it." Has fandom imploded yet?

Again I had to pause the epi to LOLOR5. Oh Ianto.

Re: 19 - Once it happened I felt like I should have known. Why Jack, why?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

*whimper*

I shall hold you, twin. Come closer.

Closer.


CLOSER, DAMMIT. DO I HAVE TO GET THE TONGS AGAIN?

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

SHITBEARS.

1. I thought so! Yay, someone else noticed :)
3. Johnny is awesome. He can stay.
5. Heeeeee
6. COAT
14. WE LOVE YOU HARRIET JONES. RIP :( :(
15. A little bit, yeah.
16. It seems so wrong! Gwen should be all about the smilies.
19. I didn't know AND I CALLED IT, I DESERVE A COOKIE.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT?
GWEN
FUCKING
LOVES
SMILIES.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

He gave the fairy folk one human girl back in, what, the first season, so, not really thinking this is line-crossing for him. HELLO GWEN MORE ANGUISH FOR YOU.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it bothers me a lot. Probably will less tomorrow.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

3) Team Ghetto Cardiff is awesome.
8) Yuh huh.
10) I was impressed. And Bridget was pissy and, "You're not the first." I bet Bridget was the first.
11) I was a little torn about the police station scene. One part of me went, "Awwwwww", but the other part of me wondered why no one was concerned/alarmed/suspicious about the copper cuddling the criminal.
14) Yeah, she had that awesome space-ship-blowing-up thing, and the balls to use it. That would be real handy right now.
15) SURE HAS!
17) Hah, if Spears had Frobisher's job, Green would be incapacitated somewhere. (For srs, fictional Britain, who voted for that guy?!)
19) That's going to be some hardcore exposition tonight. My initial response was: WTF JACK!? WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

11. I don't think it would have been odd is she knew him. There's no reason to say that she didn't. After all, she might have been impersonating a police officer, but she also paid his bail.
19. I think we all pretty much know why. I'm really glad this is going to be hashed out tonight, because the Jack apologists are getting started, and while I get their point, it's not really working.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

fandom seems to be in an exhaustion based coma today... are we all girding our whatevers for the shit that's about to fall from the sky on day four? I'm bettin.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Let's hope so. This five day shit is actually wearing me out.