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torchwood season 2 ep questions
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:04 pm
enterprise_admin
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this is a thread for the current season of torchwood to put any questions you may have thought of or come across whilst watching the new series
mine is.. in the episode called last man
Quote:
Tommy from 2008 tells Gerald and Harriet via the rift to take him out of the hospital – how did they figure out that they would have to freeze him and thaw him out once a year? How many years passed before they figured it out? Did the ghosts only show up in the hospital once a year? Owen’s bedside manner has improved a LOT – what caused this change? How did Torchwood enforce a temporal lock on a piece of tin? Why is Ianto so bitter about “nothing changing”? How were Gerald or Harriet able to draw or describe to an artist what Tosh looked like so accurately based on the few seconds they saw her? How did Jack know that Tommy wouldn’t retain any of his memories of being frozen? Why doesn’t he? Jack’s explanation that the freezing has something to do with it makes no sense whatsoever. And while it would certainly preserve the timeline, but with no proof that he would lose his memories it is awfully risky to send him back without altering them. He has lived approximately 90 days since he was originally frozen. When the timeshift starts, what is the effect? Did they have any cleanup work to do?
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Re: torchwood season 2 ep questions
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:04 am
sockpuppet
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enterprise_admin wrote:
this is a thread for the current season of torchwood to put any questions you may have thought of or come across whilst watching the new series
mine is.. in the episode called last man
Quote:
Tommy from 2008 tells Gerald and Harriet via the rift to take him out of the hospital – how did they figure out that they would have to freeze him and thaw him out once a year? How many years passed before they figured it out? Did the ghosts only show up in the hospital once a year? Owen’s bedside manner has improved a LOT – what caused this change? How did Torchwood enforce a temporal lock on a piece of tin? Why is Ianto so bitter about “nothing changing”? How were Gerald or Harriet able to draw or describe to an artist what Tosh looked like so accurately based on the few seconds they saw her? How did Jack know that Tommy wouldn’t retain any of his memories of being frozen? Why doesn’t he? Jack’s explanation that the freezing has something to do with it makes no sense whatsoever. And while it would certainly preserve the timeline, but with no proof that he would lose his memories it is awfully risky to send him back without altering them. He has lived approximately 90 days since he was originally frozen. When the timeshift starts, what is the effect? Did they have any cleanup work to do?
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First of all, when 'past' Torchwood saw 'future' Tommy,
they knew they'd have to preserve him so he could return
(as he did). Thawing him out every year is apparently a
simple maintenance procedure to make sure he'll be up and
running when needed.
Owen's bedside manner was probably much better because
his patient was such a young man, destined for such a high
purpose.
I was under the impression that the 'ghosts' appeared
erratically in both times, and increasingly so as the
time crisis drew nearer.
No idea about the temporal lock-- that's a matter
for the techies.
As for Ianto's (and Toshiko's) exasperation with the
fact that nothing changes... it's all about war and
human nature-- the staff of Torchwood was just a
metaphor for the Big Ugly Picture.
Tommy's obviously continuous memory of the time
he was conscious served him well in his return to
the past. Jack must understand the stasis state
due to his own time-travelling. In a later episode,
he spends several centuries buried alive, dying again
and again until he's exhumed in the present.
That's my understanding of it, anyway.
sock
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:30 pm
mr_sledgeka
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^Still got to watch this episode in full so I can participate, all waiting for me to watch on my hardrive.
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