He orders the Chinese food as well as making the tea, be fair.
The plot holes thing is just that they didn't actually do anything in the second episode.
- Gwen felt all guilty about letting the alien out, but given that it came to Earth specially for the sex I can't imagine that it would have sat in that rock forever if she hadn't.
- The alien ate about a dozen people in a row in the clinic, then died of starvation - how exactly did it expect to survive, then, if eating as fast it possibly could (OK, about ten seconds between meals as it went from room to room) isn't fast enough?
- Given that it died about five seconds after getting out of the girl's body, the alien would have died anyway even if they hadn't been in the clinic.
Overall, the Torchwood team simply watched as an alien landed, ate a few people, and died of plot-devitis. Well done, chaps, thank heavens you were there.
The alien wasn't much better. Quite apart from having a metabolism that precluded any chance of survival, it chose that girl because of where she worked then didn't actually go there for two days. "Food, I need fooood, there's the fridge, I think I'll ignore it for a while". WTF?
Anyway, that was all rather too negative. I think it was quite a fun program, and would happily pass an hour watching it while knitting, but it does have big flaws.
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Date: 2006-10-23 09:04 am (UTC)The plot holes thing is just that they didn't actually do anything in the second episode.
- Gwen felt all guilty about letting the alien out, but given that it came to Earth specially for the sex I can't imagine that it would have sat in that rock forever if she hadn't.
- The alien ate about a dozen people in a row in the clinic, then died of starvation - how exactly did it expect to survive, then, if eating as fast it possibly could (OK, about ten seconds between meals as it went from room to room) isn't fast enough?
- Given that it died about five seconds after getting out of the girl's body, the alien would have died anyway even if they hadn't been in the clinic.
Overall, the Torchwood team simply watched as an alien landed, ate a few people, and died of plot-devitis. Well done, chaps, thank heavens you were there.
The alien wasn't much better. Quite apart from having a metabolism that precluded any chance of survival, it chose that girl because of where she worked then didn't actually go there for two days. "Food, I need fooood, there's the fridge, I think I'll ignore it for a while". WTF?
Anyway, that was all rather too negative. I think it was quite a fun program, and would happily pass an hour watching it while knitting, but it does have big flaws.