Torchwood series 1 finale ranting

[logansrogue]

I AM SUCH A FUCKING DUNCE! GOD! I'm too stupid to LIVE! How could I be that THICK?!

HOW could I fucking miss it for this long?

THE HAND, people, THE HAND! I didn't get the hand! I should have gotten it RIGHT AWAY! It's The Doctor's fucking hand! CHRIST! WHY did I not get that?! Sweet Jesus, here I am, Agatha Christie nut, pride myself on noticing details and I didn't notice THAT big whopper?!

And I tells ya - Gwen and Jack's friendship *makes* that show for me. I don't know what they have, it's not romance, it's not sex, it's something deep and awesome and I love it, whatever it is. :)

Comments

[starfyre01.livejournal.com]

Hee! I've got to see this show. I've heard more things about it...

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

No. LOL. I have enough obsessions!

[fyrdrakken]

See, I noticed the hand in the first two eps, but I didn't know it was Ten's until reading the discussions in some Brit Who fans' LJs. Because it was really well-spoiled in the UK that it was Ten's hand because they got the media blitz that we didn't overseas. And I felt like an idiot for not getting it, too.

And then I went and found Jack/Hand communities, though I didn't do anything but read a few fics and pick up some icons. (Check out 3handedjack and gimme_the_jar if you're curious.)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

See, I thought people were joking. Christ. LOL!

[fyrdrakken]

See, part of it is that the hand was still twitching when the jar got broken in that second TW ep. So people are free to speculate whether Jack does anything kinky with the hand, or whether he's planning to use it to find the Doctor, or -- my personal favorite -- whether he'd like to find alien tech that does the same thing as in The Fifth Element and basically use that hand to clone an entire spare Ten. (I nearly wrote a fic along those lines during the first month TW was airing, but only got one scene down and didn't come back to it.)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

... That's thinking about a hand too much. But I'll grant you - it IS the Tenth Doctor's hand. I'd probably obsess that much over one of his hairs in the right situation.

Aaah, Jack's so in love with the Doctor. He's going to get the SHOCK of his life when he sees the upgrade! :D

[fyrdrakken]

Bear in mind, being in Torchwood (and working with someone who was in TW London when the Doctor was there and everything went to hell) means that Jack may well have inside information about Ten already. He may have even seen security cam footage or whatever and know what he looks like now. (And there's a lovely topic for a potential fanfic, assuming someone hasn't already written it: Jack's reaction to learning that the Doctor showed up at a TW location Jack wasn't at. Did he kick himself for figuring the Doctor had to show up at the Cardiff rift again soon, or was it just a lot harder for Jack to get into the big-budget London branch than it was to basically start the shoestring Cardiff operation from scratch?)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

*clutches head* Ow. LOL. I'm just going to wait till the shows start again.

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

NANCY. You're not stupid.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

No, but I can *be* stupid sometimes :)

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

I don't understand? I knew the hand was important (how could anyone not), but how is it dr10s hand? I thought he had both his hands? or did I miss an episode somewhere?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

You missed the Christmas Episode from the year before (when he was first with Rose). He lost his hand when he was in regeneration mode (it was only a day after his regeneration) and it grew back but the other fell to earth from the space ship.

Long story - best to get your hands on the Christmas Invasion.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

oooh right, god, that was so long ago that happened I completely forgot about it!