# It's those post-Christmas kill me now, now, now! days. Yesterday was especially bad, warm, cloudless blue sky, the sun shining outside, while I was cooped up in the store, feeling trapped and hating very single minute of it. It's even worse when business is slow and all you do is think about how you really need to find another job, except that you don't even know what kind of job because it's not as if you're exactly qualified for anything, and you already panic at the thought of the whole interview process.
# In TW rewatching news, watched Combat yesterday, and it's really kind of fascinating. Owen's pain bleeds all over the episode. Gwen does her fair share of bleeding, too. And then you have Jack, for whom OOT was at least as devastating as it was for Owen, and Ianto, who lost a girlfriend he loved under far more traumatising circumstances, and they're having a moment of empathy over the Weevil's possible capacity to feel pain. No wonder it took them until CoE to actually start talking about the things that matter.
# Watched the first episode of Outcasts, because I can't only ever post about TW all the time and need at least a Zweitserie, so to speak (although that reminds me that I still have left-over notes from the last three Merlin episodes buried somewhere back in skip=100something...), but I can't really say much about it except that I was sufficiently intrigued to watch the next episode.
# I had a nostalgic moment recently browsing through YouTube and looking up all the stuff I listened to ten years ago, and how embarrassing is it that I apparently still have a bit of a of a soft spot for Marilyn Manson from the ACS and MA era? I'm seriously too old for that. But there's a kind of mixture between earnestness and theatrical pathos to the earlier stuff that still has a certain power and is oddly appealing. ACS especially holds up quite well.
Owen's pain bleeds all over the episode.
Which reminds me (since I just rec'd it to promethia) did you ever read Team Building - Reverse The Polarity Remix? It's probably the best Jack-finds-his-team (or rather they find him) fic I've ever read.
and they're having a moment of empathy over the Weevil's possible capacity to feel pain. No wonder it took them until CoE to actually start talking about the things that matter.
Which reminds me (since I just rec'd it to promethia) did you ever read Team Building - Reverse The Polarity Remix?
I hadn't, thanks for the rec! I especially love the first part, Jack's story; that's really powerful.
On a completely unrelated note, I've just rewatched CJH, and now I'm thinking about the similarities to WoM, and how differently Jack and Ten react to a rather similar situation. Of course Jack's first impulse upon finding out is also to get the hell out of there, but somehow I never really realised before how much strength staying took. What Ten does in WoM is as much about him as it's about the people he's trying to save. Jack might come across a bit self-centred sometimes, but his actions in this episode are completely selfless.
I'd not really thought of it like that, but you're right. Also, of course, Jack has a job, a mission, someone to look after (Tosh), and people to go back to. Which contrasts rather sharply with 'The Doctor, Doctor, fun'.