"peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Anim8rFSK wrote:
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>> In article <EmzFj.6849$Oj5.1130@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Yeah, like I know the show title. Obviously not!
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>>> Bits of this one were freakin hysterical.
>>
>>
>> tiny, tiny, tiny bits
>
> I was amused more than you were.
>
>>
>>> As in funny, that is. Wasn't speaking directly of Gwen's hysterics.
>>>
>>> I love Rhys consistently blaming Jack for this - sure, he didn't
>>> impregnate her, and it is just a job risk for her. It isn't fair in
that
>>> way... but I think Rhys knows there is some risk to him from that
>>> direction, too.
>>>
>>> As was pointed out, it wasn't Tosh or Owen or Ianto that came
running
>>> up the aisle saying "stop the wedding".
>>>
>>> The idea that Gwen wakes up monsterously pregnant and figures she
can
>>> just go on with the wedding is hilarious. They tossed just enough of
>>> hysterical hormones in there to make it credible, or at least to ease
it
>>> down so I could swallow it.
>>
>>
>> The first two or three times this happened to Cordy in Angel it was
>> funny. By now it was "oh, hell, the thing bit her, I bet she wakes up
9
>> months pregnant"
>
> Oh, come on! She was only pregnant twice!
>
>
>>
>> But, really. Jack should have locked Gwen in a cage and told her
parents
>> the truth: She got bit by a criminal she was attempting to apprehend,
it
>> got infected, she's in quarantine for a couple days. Since it happened
>> in the line of duty, the police force (koff, koff) will even pick up
the
>> wedding expenses.
>
> Yeah. That would be sensible.
>
> But part of the ongoing story arc of this show is that sometimes (all
> too often) the team's decisions are driven by their emotionas for each
> other as opposed to the best or safest course.
Which is the problem. You have this team with the fate of the planet--if
not
the spacetime continuum--yet they often go ru****ng off due to their
emotions
and not enough reasoning.
To say nothing of poor security--where they have no backup if one of the
team is incapacitated to access their area of expertise.
>> Gwen going on with the wedding is one thing; Gwen running around in
>> public with an alien menance of unknown origin inside her is quite
>> another.
>
> Maybe they are just a bit too comfortable with the level of danger
> posed by alien menaces.
>
>>
>>> But ... "we musta been SO drunk last night we didn't notice that"
>>
>>
>> And nobody punched her in the stomach, going 'yeah, right, good gag
>> there' -- I mean, come on, she wasn't pregnant 12 hours ago. Somebody
>> HAS to think it's a joke.
>
> Oh, I figure that she let them touch and feel - her friends at least.
> They are girls, they don't punch.
>
>>
>>> HUH? Ah well. What else are you going to do with that. From a
>>> psychological standpoint, it was a bit fascinating watching them work
to
>>> construct some memory that would account for this.
>>
>>
>> The whole time waiting for both the singularity scapel and the amnesia
>> pills.
>>
>
> Oh yeah, had to happen. I was momentarily wi****ng for the MIB
blinky
> thing to reconstruct some memories.
>
>>>
>>> But it only occurs to Gwen AFTER mum is excited about a grandchild
>>> that she's raising some expectations here? Jeez, couldn't she at
least
>>> have said she was a surrogate mom for someone else. (That has the
added
>>> benefit of being true.)
>>>
>>> And Rhys does the surgery? Speaking of which, where'd the baby GO?
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I wondered that as well. I kept waiting for the 'plop' Or for
hot
>> Momma to grab the egg and run.
>
> Yeah. But thinking back, I don't think the mayfly inside Martha was
> around after the fact either.
Of course with the family retconned you have to redo the wedding--or
recreate the memories and artifacts (e.g. photos, cards, gifts, etc.) from
a
wedding.
>> BTW, it's an egg, right? Whose heartbeat did we keep hearing?
>
> It still has a heartbeat - just because it's in an egg doesn't mean
> it's heart isn't beating.
Yeah, that's just basic biology.
>>> I like seeing Rhys being more active in this all. It's FAR more fun
>>> than hiding things and constructing bad lies.
>>
>>
>> Yes. Glad they turned down the champagne, too.
But that seemed a bit of a stretch that Owen didn't operate.
> Yeah. Though Gwen's "there will be no secrets" line was a bit
ironic,
> as she sat there with Jack and Owen.
>
> Speaking of which, does Rhys know Owen is dead?
Rhys doesn't have a "need to know" Owen's condition.
>>> The episode gave more fuel to the gay haters, and way more fuel for
>>> Anim to hate Gwen... and Anim isn't wrong.
>>
>>
>> Ooo, I may have a new sig line!!
>
> ROFL - you are going to haunt me with that???
Wait, why does Anim hate Gwen?
>> I like Rhys, but Gwen so
>>>shouldn't be marrying him, under the circumstances. So all in all,
good
>>>episode.
>>
>>
>> Here we differ. For me, worst in a long time, to the "I might not
bother
>> next week" level.
>
> Wow.
>
>>
>> And I *desperately* miss Martha Jones.
>
> Me too. I love Martha, and she'd have been fun to keep. But she
isn't
> broken enough to fit in at Torchwood.
Martha's far too level-headed for the show--ironic given the show is
contem****ary Earthbound while DOCTOR WHO gallivants all across time and
space.
>>> ps
>>> The wedding fairies? What are they going to do??
>>
>>
>> The happy ending was a bit much. "Oh, everybody will forget and isn't
>> life grand?"
>>
>> HELLO????? HOW MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS ARE FREAKING DEAD HERE??
>
> Just the one.
>
> and nobody liked him all that much anyway.
>
> After all, they partied with him dead before the retcon drug took
> effect.
Which one was killed?
>> They acted like they'd somehow undone everything that had happened, not
>> just made people forget that are going to wake up in the morning to
>> either hideous corpses or cover stories.
>>
>
> Oh, I vote cover story.
The only way is to make fake memories of the wedding (thru photos, cards,
videos, etc.)--and then some cover story about a gas leak or food poison
or
wine poison that caused tem****ary amnesia (ala a variant of GBH).
It worked for Sunnydalites.
- Ken from Chicago
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