...when the latter rested a hand on the former's shoulder in an early scene? Yeah, I thought so.
It was actually a little more of an intimate, back rubbish sort of thing than a pat. ;-) Gah!
I thought the episode was ok but a bit on the dull side - I got a little tired of the endless "fairies-coming-to-get-ya" sequences. Some nice little stuff though... That thing with Ianto, the bit at the end with the team getting upset with Jack (there's the pot calling the kettle black,) and a few other isolated moments.
By all means, I should of loved all the back story on Jack - and the relationship with Estelle (I'm usually a sucker for angsty Highlander-style immortal storylines.) But I kind of feel uneasy about what they gave us. I had trouble reconciling it with my own vision of what Jack was doing (and what his personality was like) pre-Who. So what I came up with in my own head was that these flashbacks were back to a time when he was on the job for the Time Agents - not connected to the time he spent in WWII when we met him with the Doctor or during the time he went rogue. *Or* (here's an interesting thought) maybe Jack *didn't* hitch a lift back to Cardiff 2006 - Maybe he hitched a lift back to Earth 1900 or something and it's been a 100 years for him since his time with the Doctor. Which would add an awful lot to his emotional state if that's what happened. I don't know - I'm strangely unhappy with it for some reason.
I really liked that he chose to let the child go - Whether or not there were plot holes with that, I don't care. I just liked the decision and what it did/does to him.
I just reread all that... It doesn't make a lot of sense to me either... I seem to have lost the ability to speak clearly and concisely today. ;-)
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It was actually a little more of an intimate, back rubbish sort of thing than a pat. ;-) Gah!
I thought the episode was ok but a bit on the dull side - I got a little tired of the endless "fairies-coming-to-get-ya" sequences. Some nice little stuff though... That thing with Ianto, the bit at the end with the team getting upset with Jack (there's the pot calling the kettle black,) and a few other isolated moments.
By all means, I should of loved all the back story on Jack - and the relationship with Estelle (I'm usually a sucker for angsty Highlander-style immortal storylines.) But I kind of feel uneasy about what they gave us. I had trouble reconciling it with my own vision of what Jack was doing (and what his personality was like) pre-Who. So what I came up with in my own head was that these flashbacks were back to a time when he was on the job for the Time Agents - not connected to the time he spent in WWII when we met him with the Doctor or during the time he went rogue. *Or* (here's an interesting thought) maybe Jack *didn't* hitch a lift back to Cardiff 2006 - Maybe he hitched a lift back to Earth 1900 or something and it's been a 100 years for him since his time with the Doctor. Which would add an awful lot to his emotional state if that's what happened. I don't know - I'm strangely unhappy with it for some reason.
I really liked that he chose to let the child go - Whether or not there were plot holes with that, I don't care. I just liked the decision and what it did/does to him.
I just reread all that... It doesn't make a lot of sense to me either... I seem to have lost the ability to speak clearly and concisely today. ;-)