I finally got to watch the final two torchwood episodes of the season. I loved them.

I really want to know more about Bilis Manger. He is too mysterious to just take part in only these episodes. Is he evil or did his means justify the ends?

He was the one that took the pictures of the two jacks so that Owen and Ianto would find out that Tosh and Jack were stuck in 1941 so he knew he had to get them to open the rift somehow but I don't think that his only reason was to release BOB (beast of burden--they called him BOB in declassified and I liked it and I can't remember its real name anyway!!)

Maybe Jack knew that this all had to come about, since Jack knows so much more than everyone around him. Maybe Jack allowed this to happen because he needed the rift to open just as much as everyone else did....Remember Jack was a bit of a con man when we first met him in Doctor Who! but for whatever reason couldn't just go and open it himself.

I love speculating about this stuff. I can't wait to re-watch the first episodes again, and then sit waiting for the second and third sets of discs to be released in February and March.

By then, the snow we haven't gotten yet should have melted and I can go back outside to play

Oh my goodness.

I finally had the time to watch the last Torchwood episode COMBAT and now that one is one of my faves!

It was dark,it was gritty, it was real. Owen who is going to save you??? Gwen what were you thinking?? ohhh it raised so many questions about character development, well for me it did. and I have to be honest, its the stories that pull me in more than anything else.

I really do think that sci-fi today doesn't try to stretch the fiction bit as much as it did in the past. It doesn't pretend to say this is how things will be in the future as much as it says this is how things are now, but what if there is more happening now than what you know.... it gives you something to think about without having to suspend your disbelief as much.

You might argue that capturing aliens, so that you can fight them to get a rush is far fetched, but look at Ted Nugent (why you would want to do that really is beyond me though *ha ha*) From my understanding he captures animals to be released so he can hunt (and eat) them. (I am not here to comment on if I think that's right or not...I am just a sci-fi geek gurrl after all.) Sport is, what it is, to the individual involved or watching.

Being a woman (so they say) I guess I don't' have that need to release stress by using aggression, and in general I don't condone violence. but I love it on my television screen!!! I can't explain why, so I won't even try.

I was shocked a bit by Captain Jack's lack of involvement or discipline or whatever. I expected him to take a moral high ground or something with Owen or something rather than just saying something like " I expect to see you at work tomorrow" but I think that actually worked better than Jack lording over all and always doing and saying the right thing like perhaps the Doctor would. He is not the Doctor and I think thats a good thing. Jack is flawed, and I think we are about to see more of his flaws in the coming episodes.

And I for one can't wait.

Well, was Santa good to you this year?

I have to say he was great to me, I got the complete first season of the "new" Doctor Who on DVD and a note to let me know Torchwood was pre-ordered and would soon be on its way.

I should be over the moon, I should be ecstatic...but...we still haven't seen the Torchwood episode from Sunday...or the Doctor Who Christmas special!!!! We just haven't had the time *sigh*

My husband thinks crack would be less addictive to me, since I have been moody and generally unpleasant since we have them available for us to view, and yet we have not yet done so!!! *arrrrghhhhhh* (he might say I am like that anyway, but then he also might end up sleeping alone!!! *haha*)

I really was impressed with my "haul" this year. I liked everything I got very much and I actually got a lot more than I expected.(including a Richard Hammond Supercars calendar from my most excellent in-laws) My husband being a sci fi geek guy also did well although his tastes in sci fi go a bit further than mine.

He got Forbidden planet on DVD, and a wind up Robbie the robot type toy among many other things.

I couldn't even begin to list what our kids got, and in order for us to keep it all we are going to give some of their older toys to the day care they go to. I think in the future we will make it part of our tradition that we go through the old toys before Santa comes. Hopefully teaching the kids to not get too attached to material things, and showing them its good to share. I also want them to pick out a toy to buy for another child for one of those secret Santa things that the shops set up for under privileged children (hey they just used to be poor when I was growing up!)

Anyway, I hope you and yours had a great holiday, whatever you celebrate (or don't) and may something nice happen to you just because we all need nice things to happen to us now and again!!!

Just watched the latest TORCHWOOD last night and it was, in my opinion, the best one yet. I did have one niggling doubt, when Owen used the term "f*ck buddies" It seemed a bit juvenile, even for Owen, but other than that, it served to forward the story arch along nicely giving us small subtle pieces of the puzzle that is Captain Jack. It also served to show the downside of time travel especially when you jump less than a lifetime ahead of yourself. So much has changed, yet not so much that you couldn't cope with the changes.

I really like some of the sci-fi themes they really get me thinking about what I would do if some of the things they dream up were really possible. I might get into that another time. I can't really wrap my mind around my own thoughts sometimes, So I imagine it wouldn't come across too coherently.

....and I should be able to see the Doctor Who Christmas special in about a week from now!!!! So no wonder I can't think straight!

***spoiler alert***

Those two words can get my heart pumping so fast and so hard that I forget where I am...OK I paraphrased my favorite TORCHWOOD quote, but seriously.

I WANT TO KNOW

But its that same old sci-fi chestnut of once you know you can't take it back, and then you are left with the burden of knowing the future and then you must decide what to do with that information.

I want to know, what do you do when you see a spoiler alert? Do you actively seek them out or avoid them like the plague? I can't help it when I see one, I am the kind of gurrl who is always wanting more, I have to look.

I'm trying not to give in to my urges
OH GODS GIVE ME STRENGTH (especially when Battlestar Gallactica was a two parter this week!!!)

I'm not one of those over the top sci-fi fans, to be honest they scare me. But I cant help but get caught up in the new sci-fi dramas that seem to be hitting our T.V. (and if you are too impatient to wait, our computer screens too!)

I used to watch x-files faithfully, I wanted to believe. But then I started getting laid and my quest for extra terrestrial life took a back seat. (Well that and the show finished...I'm still waiting for an X-files 2 movie..hey it could happen)

I thought that would be the end of it a passing interest in sci-fi, move on get married have kids..you know the usual, but as fate would have it, my husband was a secret sci-fi geek too!

He got me started watching Red Dwarf a British sci-fi comedy (I know I wasn't too sure how that would play out either, but I guess it kinda worked in its own geeky way)

He knew I liked the X-files so he got me season 1 on DVD and we started to watch it all from the begining.

We would watch the occasional sci-fi movie and I thought it was nothing more than a passing fancy, until...

They brought out the new Battlestar Gallactica. (I wasn't a fan of the old series and I am sorry that all the purists hate the new show) BUT I LOVE IT!!!

Then Doctor Who came back (again I never watched the original, I was aware of it being on TVO when I was a child but couldn't remember story lines or anything like that) However, my husband had very vivid memories especially of the Daleks and hiding behind the sofa when they would appear.

Another thing that drew us to the show is that it was shot in Cardiff, Wales, which is where my husband originally came from, so we wanted to take a look and see how Cardiff was doing.

From there the leap to Torchwood wasn't so much a leap as a tiny side step. I really like it! Its aimed at an adult audience and as such, sometimes it seems as if its trying too hard. I wont go into plot lines and characters if you are interested, look it up on the web.


Some of the sex and swearing is a bit gratuitous *SPOILER ALERT*



But when Owen had Gwen pinned against a tree breathless ,in the episode countrycide, and asked "When was the last time you screwed all night? [they struggle, getting closer] When was the last time you came so hard and so long you forgot where you are? [Gwen struggles but Owen presses in hard and close] Doesn't happen with him anymore, does it? You're too familiar. [Gwen slowly stops struggling] Where as you and me, we aren't cozy at all. We'd be amazing. And that scares the shit out you. [both are breathing rather heavily and it looks like they might kiss when they hear a noise a few yards away...]


*END OF SPOILER*
OH NOW THAT WAS GOOD FOR ME!!!

Don't get me wrong I like my smut, I just like it a bit better when its held just out of reach rather than rammed down my throat (so to speak)


So ya, I have turned into sci-fi geek gurrl.

and maybe those conventions aren't so dorky after all. (shoot me if I dress up as Jackie Tyler though!)